RSVP-The Rose of Tralee is embarrassing – and has a serious lack of diversity

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  1. What are you talking about, there’s a one there with a cowboy hat on. She must be tough. Not all “lovely girls” you know

  2. I’m sure a few of them don’t go to mass or play GAA so there’s that.

    Buy seriously, diversity? Would you ever fuck off with your twitter American politics.

  3. >This year, the Rose of Tralee is a sea of white faces – and people have noticed. Rather than acknowledging that they need to do better, the festival’s executive chair Anthony O’Gara said the criticism is “nonsense” and “very disappointing”. He insisted that the competition is very diverse, and lamely mentioned a few previous women of colour who have won. Journalist and former Rose Brianna Parkins responded perfectly today when she said “You can’t just point to a handful of mixed-race women and say that’s enough. It’s just not good enough.”

    ‘The Rose of Tralee isn’t diverse’

    ‘Here are some non white women that participated ‘

    ‘Noooo, you can’t just point to examples of diversity when you’re accused of not being diverse’

    Ultimately these people will never be satisfied. Trying to placate them is a fools errand.

  4. Diversity my arse. It’s a Lovely Girls competition. If you’re ok with it existing in the first place then diversity shouldn’t enter your head.

    Lovely bottoms though.

  5. Not everything has to be ‘diverse’! “Diversity” campaigners claim that its compelling benefits justify discrimination based on race and ethnicity. Yes, but where are the benefits? Diversity reinforces—and depends on—racialism and stereotypes. It is said to be good because it exposes whites (or others with inflexible factors like gender) to people with different ideas or backgrounds—i.e., those who actually are “different”—but it is very dubious to use race or sexuality as a proxy for individual thoughts and experiences.

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