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I don’t quite get it, why is “Buddhist” more objectionable than “grinner”? Surely there must be more egregious examples than that if they decided to pull 600,00
by Grustaf 7y ago
I don’t quite get it, why is “Buddhist” more objectionable than “grinner”? Surely there must be more egregious examples than that if they decided to pull 600,000 images? And if they find the tag “Negro” offensive can’t they just replace it with “black”, “of African origin” or whatever the currently allowed term is? Tagging a black person as black does not seem very objectionable in a country that provides racial breakdowns for official statistics.
- aaronharnly 7y agoWhen white people are labeled for their other qualities, and non-white people are labeled for their (perceived) ethnicity, that’s racist. Which is to say, unfair. Not nice.
- darawk 7y agoShouldn't everyone just be labeled for everything? Seems like we should just add "white" to the tags of white people.
- Grustaf 7y agoWere those two examples labeled by the same people? If there really is systematic bias why don’t they mention some statistics? For example, 90% of white people lacked a race tag while 80% of black people had one? Also, it doesn’t seem like there has been any evil intent here, nor did I see anything about pernicious consequences. It seems a bit overblown to accuse people of racism over something that is unintended and theoretical. Just update the tags.