Notice anything about this picture of the Huffington Post newsroom?
Looks like a bunch of white women in a room, perhaps discussing which industries to criticize next for their lack of diversity.
But wait. If you use your special diversity detection telescope, you may be able to spot a few outliers.
“@lheron Oh my bad you have some Asians waaaaaay in the back all kept together…..,” said @RobProvince [tweet deleted].
The Twitter reaction was swift and brutal to a photo just begging to be called hypocritical.
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/733812386704957440
That's it's whiter than a polar bear eating vanilla ice cream in a blizzard? https://t.co/gslfUGCSuU
— PCEM Smittie GE.D (@smittie61984) May 20, 2016
Now #HuffPoSoWhite is totally becoming a thing.
@EmilyRPeck I guess gender imbalance is only a problem when it's male dominated #HuffPoSoWhite
— Voice of Reason (@NoMoreCnsorship) June 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/uncle_eddie99/status/984950071534989312
I'm guessing some of their best friends are black. #HuffPoSoWhite
— Wruce Bayne (@wrucebayne21) May 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/tsh219/status/912176477684121601
https://twitter.com/CramerSez/status/800873832995311616
For a publication that regularly harps on diversity quotas in popular culture they may be in need of a little self reflection.
