The media in liberal democracies don’t reflect the diversity of their people.

The media in liberal democracies reflect the diversity of their people more than state media in a fascist dictatorship that jails dissenters, critics, and oppresses ethnic and/or gender and sexual minorities. Human rights, free speech, and a free press are the bare minimum before you tackle other problems like affinity bias in hiring.

You are engaging in the logical fallacy and propaganda tactic called whataboutism.* If people genuinely care about diversity and challenging bias, they wouldn't uncritically view an unelected president (or an elected president chosen in a country without free elections) as the spokesperson for their ethnic group.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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keybored 8 months ago | parent [-]

I know about Whataboutism. Thanks. It’s a perfectly reasonable rthetorical strategy.[1][2]

You are engaging in the logical fallacy of making a true statement about fascist dictatorships which is skewed to, by implicit comparison, imply that the thing in question is the case elsewhere (elsewhere here being liberal democracies because that’s the most common comparison and also where most people in these discussions live). Media in liberal democracies do not reflect the diversity of their people, no.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VCzhWy-Kk

[2] How do I know? Because it’s the only reply you get 90% of the time when replying to these kinds of statements.

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gitremote 8 months ago | parent [-]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just as colonialist as the US invasion of Iraq.

	▲	keybored 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		They’re both colonialist wars. Do you have a point or are you just fishing for a particular response?