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Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet. But It Became a Toxic Mess

• mc32 7y ago
  >“You have the team working through a burning crisis of culture in the office. Once again the boss is MIA, and the first communication we get from him is essentially a blackface picture from his vacation? I’m not sure one can get more tone deaf,” a former Jigsaw employee told Motherboard. This take is taking the least charitable interpretation of events. One Someone is on vacation. Does vacation/holidays not have any meaning anymore? Two, not all face-paint whatever the color is "blackface" (which is contextually different) but evenso, you have the Governor of Virginia who was caught in pictures (and admitted to) wearing actual blackface (with all the context) but he's somehow still not faced any serious questioning from Democrats or even Republicans. This tells you the accusation is optional and is only lobbed at foes. A distant tribe has _no idea_ what blackface is, and for people outside who know, they'd know it has no relation whatsoever --except unless you take the most superficial interpretation. >“The mission of the team is to save the day for the poor brown people.” These people [accusers] don't know what they want. Don't help and it's abandoning people (or worse), help and it enters weird areas of tinged accusations of racism.