Blazers social media team...lacking diversity?

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  1. santeesioux

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    Where's all the Native Americans at!?!?
     
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    Because guess who gets laid off when there are calls for diversity? What happens to the person that gets diversified?
     
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    Alright this made me laugh.
     
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    HCP is their token white friend!
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Comparatively our hardships are miniscule. We can deal.
     
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    Compared to who? People who have similar credentials to me have significantly more hardships?
     
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    You speak for all white people, do you?

    Get off your high horse.
     
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    You're trying to argue that diversity may improve certain aspects of business. Which may or may not be true.

    But it says nothing about why an external group should be offended by the level of diversity. The Blazers social media team doesn't owe you a product. If they're truly creating a poor product due to their lack of diversity, it will negatively affect their business.
     
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    Who said anyone was offended?
     
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    You forgot the green font.
     
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    Actually people are upset about that. Apparently our social media steals from "Black Twitter" and now that people know our social media team is white, that's a huge problem too.
     
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    But I never heard anything about it before the video today, which is my point.
     
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    Yeah I know, they didn't care before now. Pretty sure we were one on the most popular accounts last season.
     
    VanillaGorilla, Oct 22, 2019
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    How do you address the issue of diversity in the NBA when it's so overwhelmingly overrepresented by POC? There is a stunning lack of diversity from what should be expected given demographics measuring the important things(not basketball skill of course).
     
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    Diversity for the sake of diversity is not the way any company should hire its employees...
     
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    I was walking the other day in NE Portland past a group of clearly East African immigrants. They were teenage boys throwing around the N word in a thick accent. They spoke in their native tongue and have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Their appropriation and use of words of oppression should rile you, no?
     
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