This is from the Other Place, I hope it’s allowed.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    In middle school, late 90s, I knew an Asian girl who was in commercials. I remember her talking about it later on in high school that she was explicitly there to add diversity to the commercial and she knew it.

    I bring this up because we’ve artificially made things look more equal as a society even when they were not. Always push back for actual numbers, be it diversity in schools or anything else.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
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      35 minutes ago

      As a woman in tech, I had companies happily using me this exact way just a few years ago.