How do you legitimately feel about being pandered to?

[El_Mero_Mero]

How do you legitimately feel about being pandered to, either due to your race, gender, or any other category that you can be grouped into?

Are you fully against it, or do you sometimes say "well...it's not the way I would like to go about getting more representation and more opportunities, but it's a means to an end, so I'll take it."?

 

[KingJay]

I’m someone who actually has been blessed with a lot of great opportunities so I don’t think I like being pandered to personally

That being said, I don’t think I mind our people being “pandered to” if it’s beneficial and helps us advance as a group

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

pamper me

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

pamper me

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Pander to me with money.

 

[El_Mero_Mero]

I’m someone who actually has been blessed with a lot of great opportunities so I don’t think I like being pandered to personally

That being said, I don’t think I mind our people being “pandered to” if it’s beneficial and helps us advance as a group

Full transparency (and I hope to not catch any warning points in the Future for just being honest), the reason that this thread came about was because I was watching the news and they mentioned that President Biden is going to choose someone for an important government position, and that all he's said is that it will be a black woman. I'm pretty sure that the same was done with his Vice President selection. There was no mention of qualifications or accolades, but the only criteria seemed to be that the person chosen match that race and gender. Even if that's the selection process that everyone agreed upon behind the scenes, I don't think they should make it that blatant and public like that. The only reason to do it the way that they're doing it is to practice "mega-pandering".

Low-level pandering is a politician visiting a town he's never been to and rocking the sports team. The aforementioned thing is just "od" levels of obvious, and looks bad (imo).

Then again, if it's a means to an end, then some folks are okay with however that final destination is reached. I was just trying to gauge what the coli opinion is on it.

 

[MajesticLion]

A means to what end?

 

[-DMP-]

Depends on the pandering.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Full transparency (and I hope to not catch any warning points in the Future for just being honest), the reason that this thread came about was because I was watching the news and they mentioned that President Biden is going to choose someone for an important government position, and that all he's said is that it will be a black woman. I'm pretty sure that the same was done with his Vice President selection. There was no mention of qualifications or accolades, but the only criteria seemed to be that the person chosen match that race and gender. Even if that's the selection process that everyone agreed upon behind the scenes, I don't think they should make it that blatant and public like that. The only reason to do it the way that they're doing it is to practice "mega-pandering".

Low-level pandering is a politician visiting a town he's never been to and rocking the sports team. The aforementioned thing is just "od" levels of obvious, and looks bad (imo).

Then again, if it's a means to an end, then some folks are okay with however that final destination is reached. I was just trying to gauge what the coli opinion is on it.

Lol welcome to Politricks. Politicians and big businesses just gonna pander to the group(s) that benifit their short term and long term interest the most. Sometimes those groups interest just happen to align with their own, but if they don’t, they will pander to them if that group is important enough. Most diversity in America is smoke and mirrors. They always gotta have a few. That’s what they be saying in them strategy meetings…”Tom we have to have some diversity to appear fair and progressive”

 

[Fanservice]

Pander to me with money.

Only cacs willing to cut a check to brehs is FEMA

 

[Savvir]

the civil rights act can be considered "pandering"



I'll take what we can get



fukk the militant babble

 

[PortCityProphet]

I dont like it. Feels like I'm a charity case fukk alladat

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Full transparency and I hope to not catch any warning points in the Future for just being honest, the reason that this thread came about was because I was watching the news and they mentioned that President Biden is going to choose someone for an important government position, and that all he's said is that it will be a black woman.

Tokenism
Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or gender equality within a workplace or educational context. The effort of including a token individual in work or school is usually intended to create the impression of social inclusiveness and diversity.

I'm pretty sure that the same was done with his Vice President selection.

For both Obama and now Biden it was Citigroup that gave them the list of acceptable VPs.
Neither Obama nor Biden chose their VP

 

[El_Mero_Mero]

A means to what end?

Opportunities, representation, and other things generally considered positive.

 

[Xyrax]

How do you legitimately feel about being pandered to, either due to your race, gender, or any other category that you can be grouped into?

Are you fully against it, or do you sometimes say "well...it's not the way I would like to go about getting more representation and more opportunities, but it's a means to an end, so I'll take it."?

I side eye people that even use that terminology tbh. The fact of the matter is we deserve more opportunity, more representation, higher wages etc than we get as black men and women in this country PERIOD.

Whenever someone or something moves to inch progress forward on that regard, anyone who immediately rushes up in opposition against that gesture crying about "Pandering" looks really fukking suspect to me.

If raising our wages would be pandering, then what is the alternative you are proposing Sir/Ma'am? To leave things as they are? Well considering things as they are happen to be biased against us, it sounds a whole fukking lot like you are just campaigning to keep us underrepresented and oppressed.

You typically get some bullshyt response like "I want the improvements, but the RIGHT way" wherein the "right way" is some ambiguous and unspecific babble about nothing. If you need your tangibles to be done "the right way" then go sit your ass over in a corner and turn down the higher pay, political seats, and more. But the rest of us will take ours.

These mf's are goofy man.

Everything is always pandering when we get something, even if its not specific to us. But I know 0 nikkas that burned those stimulus checks instead of spending them. Until mf start standing behind those empty words they can