Is Google Racist?
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Slightely OT, someone care to explain what is wrong with the watermelon ? Do watermelons have racist connotations in English-speaking countries ? On a side note, mmmmmmhhhhh, watermelon.
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All I see is people looking for offence.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
All I see is people looking for offence.
I agree with you on this, 100.1% Haters gonna hate.
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The racist stereo-type is that black people only eat Fried Chicken and Water Melon. Didn't realise this was only prevalent in English speaking countries, although I assume it originated in the States.
TPFKAPB wrote:
Didn't realise this was only prevalent in English speaking countries
This was only an assumption, I was expecting something linked to the language, not to the country ( because of a play-on-words or something). OK, fried chicken and water melon can definitely not be a stereotype over here.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Should I see a Bruce McKenzie I would deffo advertise Qantas Flights
I would have advertised Qantas for Christian Graus ;P
I love go-o-o-o-ld!
That's not racist, that's just mean.
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After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?
TPFKAPB wrote:
how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements.
That's why I ditched Gmail. I was hoping they would try to sell me Slivovitz[^] based on my name and the subset of Unicode characters I use to write my e-mails, but no such luck :(
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After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?
I played the game and it never occurred to me that there was anything racist as far as the background color scheme and the particular skin coloration of the race participant. I thought the game a bit lame, but I just hadn’t thought of it as anything beyond that. How was it that it was noticeable to so many people (Or the few as the case may be.) This “sensitivity”, in my opinion, serves to divide rather than to bring awareness. It appears to call offense where there may have been none intended. If it was intended to hurt or denigrate any particular race or person based on their race then by all means the perpetrator deserves to be punished, if not, I guess I just don’t know. Is this type of over sensitivity just as much a case of racism as intentional acts of open racism or bigotry?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Out of interest how can you tell? There isn't much in the way of buildings in this pic and you can't see the Train, so I assume you can tell from the people and their clothes?
The clothing suggests Pakistan.
I love go-o-o-o-ld!
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After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?
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After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?
Maybe I should log in and see if they advertise beer.
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TPFKAPB wrote:
That's easy, a book on how to play Cricket. ;-P
Or a mini-book on retiring gracefully. :-D
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After the furore of there 'racist' doodle[^]. They are now trying to say that Google is racially profiling names in e-mails[^] in order to target their advertising more efficiently. Am I alone in failing to see what is racist about this? The only thing that I can see that is remotely wrong with this is the fact that they scan your e-mails in the first place. I don't see how using someone's name to determine they are French say, and then showing them adverts for crossiants and Baguettes, or warm Beer and Bacon for an Englishmen any more wrong than any of the other criteria they use when selecting targeted advertisements. Anyone see this different?
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You can teach us that. But very soon we will come up with Indian version of it. Which will taste better at least to us.
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d@nish wrote:
Which will taste better at least to us.
And to me, I have a lifelong affinity with the food from the land of my birth.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
For you, it depends on how much pain you can bear the next day in your rear. :) On the other hand, you might discover a condition where toilet papers become highly inflammable.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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I played the game and it never occurred to me that there was anything racist as far as the background color scheme and the particular skin coloration of the race participant. I thought the game a bit lame, but I just hadn’t thought of it as anything beyond that. How was it that it was noticeable to so many people (Or the few as the case may be.) This “sensitivity”, in my opinion, serves to divide rather than to bring awareness. It appears to call offense where there may have been none intended. If it was intended to hurt or denigrate any particular race or person based on their race then by all means the perpetrator deserves to be punished, if not, I guess I just don’t know. Is this type of over sensitivity just as much a case of racism as intentional acts of open racism or bigotry?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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For you, it depends on how much pain you can bear the next day in your rear. :) On the other hand, you might discover a condition where toilet papers become highly inflammable.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]