6.8% of the total U.S. population is AAPI. There are 25 members of the Biden Cabinet: 2 of said members - the VP & the USTR (who's a member of the Cabinet as it's currently constituted because, yes, Cabinet-level counts) - are AAPI, meaning 8% of the Biden Cabinet is AAPI. Biden pledged to appoint a Cabinet that "looked like America." What's the issue here?
I saw this thread and the first thing I did was Google "aapi % of population" because I was going to make this exact post.
Biden pledged to try and build a diverse cabinet, and he has done so. That is what counts. Whether some particular group or sub-group or sub-sub-group or small slice of America is under or over-represented in this particular small sample is not really that important.
Here in Seattle there's a thing called the "Black Brilliance Project" where we basically handed millions of dollars to our local SJW creatives purely for the sake of saying "we spent money promoting underrepresented communities." The internals of the project itself are like peak SJW. Here is a direct quote from the Seattle Times article that reads like an SNL parody of Seattle activism:
The seven people on the steering committee would have to, among them, meet nearly a dozen different criteria: At least one member must have been incarcerated, one must have been homeless, have disabilities, be trans, nonbinary or gender nonconforming, be a Black woman, be an older adult, be from the African diaspora. At least two of seven members must be youth and at least one must be appointed by the Duwamish Tribe."
I mean, is this what we want? Is this really what we mean by "diversity"? Creating an endless list of boxes that must be ticked and sub-groups that must be represented?
