gleaming-the-cubicle t1_iydr9pc wrote
Reply to comment by RedditRuleViolator in Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male 'experts' named Mike by Kunphen
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>Nor does Shark Week accurately represent experts in this field. One issue is ethnicity: Three of the five most-featured locations on Shark Week are Mexico, South Africa and the Bahamas, but we could count on one hand the number of non-white scientists who we saw featured in shows about their own countries. It was far more common for Discovery to fly a white male halfway around the world than to feature a local scientist.
>Moreover, while more than half of U.S. shark scientists are female, you wouldn’t know this from watching Shark Week. Among people who we saw featured in more than one episode, there were more white male non-scientists named Mike than women of any profession or name.
RedditRuleViolator t1_iydtnt1 wrote
It's still racist.
gleaming-the-cubicle t1_iydufxa wrote
RedditRuleViolator t1_iye7o9x wrote
It's horrifically wrong. That was my point.
HardlineMike t1_iyegxmm wrote
How are you going to point out racism or a lack of diversity without mentioning race?
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