Can't Make This Stuff Up: Now "Shark Week" is RACIST? - OMG.
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Well, folks, I thought it was fake.
I thought it was fake, but it's real.
Apparently, according to The Washington Post, Shark Week lacks diversity and over-represents men named Mike, scientists say.
So the Washington Post said that researchers say Discovery's program overwhelmingly featured white men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks during Shark Week.
Guys, I thought it was fake, but...
It isn't.
And it also never ends.
So guys, just be ashamed.
Doesn't matter for a while.
You don't have to do anything. Just be ashamed all the time and you should somehow be covered.
On behalf, and I will speak for them generally speaking now, I couldn't do this for any other race, but I think I can speak on behalf of white men everywhere.
I'm so sorry for being racist towards Checks, notes, sharks.
Guys, you can't make it up.
I'm going to take the Jaws quote.
You're going to need a bigger boat.
You're going to need to update your diversity, equity, and inclusion standards discovery.
Maybe, maybe, because I know I've been in the water with sharks a lot.
Maybe white guys are just the only people dumb enough to get in the water with sharks.
Is that okay? I assume that's not racist because I'm poking fun at these things.
But like, the other silver lining is guys, if The Washington Post is running a story about Shark Week lacking diversity and that the scientists included in researching sharks are overwhelmingly right.
Maybe, just maybe, we're running out of things!
We're doing things to pretend to be racist.
Maybe we're finally running out of nonsense to be outraged about.
Because, honestly guys, that one's a stretch.
Most of them these days are a stretch.
When everything in the world is viewed through the lens of racism and how it somehow doesn't represent some group, it's a problem.
I mean, you don't hear anyone talking about like, I don't know, I feel like short, unathletic white guys like me, and I'm not that short, I'm 6'1", but relative to the NBA, I'd be pretty short.
I feel like I'm grossly underrepresented In the courts of the NBA, and yet no one would seem to have a problem with that.
But guys, Shark Week, be sorry that you enjoyed it because you too are, I guess, continuing the patriarchy or some sort of other nonsense.