> Images of white Americans are persistently held up in Google’s images and in its results to reinforce the superiority and mainstream acceptability of whitenes

> Images of white Americans are persistently held up in Google’s images and in its results to reinforce the superiority and mainstream acceptability of whiteness as the default “good” to which all others are made invisible. I think that implying intent on Google's part is going way too far. Obviously search results, to a large extent, are going to reflect the society and culture of search engine users. If our society and culture are shitty, should search results pretend otherwise? I'm pretty sure that our society and culture are rife with institutionalized racism and sexism and a whole lot of other badness, and badness of search results seems to me to be a symptom rather than a cause.