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Is a Microsoft App in the Works Racist?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:52 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:52 am
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A Microsoft App in the works called “Pedestrian Route Production,” that would provide the user walking directions around a city that avoid “unsafe neighborhood[s],” has been deemed racist by an number of organizations, notably the NAACP of Dallas. Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace has pledged “I’m going to be up in arms about it if it happens,” comparing the app to “gerrymandering.” The app is patented, but is not yet available to the public. Microsoft refrains from commenting on already-patented applications.
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Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:53 am to CarolinaGamecock99
If it saves one life . . .
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:54 am to CarolinaGamecock99
Sounds like an app that I would be willing to buy.
Besides, don't peoples of color want to exclude us whites from their "safe zones" now?
Besides, don't peoples of color want to exclude us whites from their "safe zones" now?
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 11:56 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:54 am to CarolinaGamecock99
LOL
Facts are racist.
As Always.
Facts are racist.
As Always.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:54 am to CarolinaGamecock99
The Author:
quote:
ELIZABETH HUNTER
I love to write about things that make people say WHUT! And I can officially break news, scour the Twitter/Internet, and put out some coherent information in less than a day. Ask me, dudes.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:55 am to CarolinaGamecock99
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comparing the app to “gerrymandering.”
this gets the 2nd highest form of lulz possible: Idi Amin
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:57 am to SlowFlowPro
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I find the implications of this app more subtly disturbing—if we never get lost, how will we ever discover? If every move we make is filtered through a phone that counsels us to avoid entire swaths of inhabited city blocks, how will we ever stumble upon those awesome dive bars or bakeries or bookstores that make living in these crowded cities worth it all?
ok this gets the highest form of lulz possible: laughing duck
all those amazing bakeries and bookstores in the ghetto
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:03 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
quote:what a very apt statement.
“I’m going to be up in arms
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:05 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
There's already an app that helps you avoid "unsafe" areas of a city.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:08 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Not racist; it is merely relying on criminal incidents
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:08 pm to Loserman
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Besides, don't peoples of color want to exclude us whites from their "safe zones" now?
Except we're like ATM's and their "pin" number is more the firing pin of a sideways held 9mm.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:09 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:This sounds like a white person from a white town who has never taken a wrong turn and ended up in the projects.
quote: I find the implications of this app more subtly disturbing—if we never get lost, how will we ever discover?
The only thing you will discover is crack heads, drug dealers, rats, men hanging out on porches and hallways, drunkards, etc.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:09 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Why would it be racist to point out bad neighborhoods, I thought crime was all socioeconomic and not tied to race at all
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:10 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
What's more racist, assuming unsafe zones are only consisting of minorities or making an app to keep people from wandering into high crime areas?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:12 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
This whole story just smells like a fairly solid troll.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:13 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
Gotta be the easiest app in the world to develop, just overlay a red X on the MLK street in each city
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:15 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
The app is based merely on crime statistics that do not include race. So, by claiming this is racist, the NAACP is automatically assuming that these crimes are being committed by POC's which means the NAACP is racist against POC's.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:16 pm to upgrayedd
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the NAACP is automatically assuming that these crimes are being committed by POC's which means the NAACP is racist against POC's
NAACP knows who it represents.
Hell, a lot of the people IN the NAACP fall into the category. Don't fool yourself otherwise.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:19 pm to ShortyRob
There's nothing the NAACP can do to fool me at this point 
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:22 pm to PrimeTime Money
Looks like I figured out why the author seems so naive. Here she is:
She's from Seattle. A white girl from Seattle. Seattle's population is nearly 70% White, 17% Asian, and 8% Black.
87% of the city is White and Asian!
There were only 21 murders in Seattle last year. 21! For a city of 650,000 people, only 21 murders is insane.
New Orleans, for example, has like 190 murders and half the population size.
She just doesn't even know.
She's from Seattle. A white girl from Seattle. Seattle's population is nearly 70% White, 17% Asian, and 8% Black.
87% of the city is White and Asian!
There were only 21 murders in Seattle last year. 21! For a city of 650,000 people, only 21 murders is insane.
New Orleans, for example, has like 190 murders and half the population size.
She just doesn't even know.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 12:59 pm
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