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How is this different in intent, effect or result to the Green Book[1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book https://en.wikipedia.o

• sigmaprimus 6y ago
  Im assuming you are asking an honest question so I'll try my best to answer. The difference in intent, effect and or result is: The Greenbook was created to provide information on businesses that were not racist, decent people that offered services to minorities. In essence it promoted certain buisnesses to people which helped them, what yelp is doing is placing alerts on buisnesses that you should not visit thus hurting them. The Smithsonian has a digital copy of the book here: https://transcription.si.edu/project/7955 https://transcription.si.edu/project/7955 Hope that answered your question
  • sigmaprimus 6y ago
    * Edit * After contemplating your question overnight, I believe that Yelp's "INTENT" may be nothing more than a kind of virtue signalling, in order to drive attention to their web site. I would imagine that during this time of restaurants and service business shutdowns, they are having a hard time too. So why not stir things up, with some race baiting, heck maybe Fox news will give them a mention!! So yes it is quite a bit different than the Green Books' creators intent.
• raxxorrax 6y ago
  People denying others service by skin color was the motivation for that. This time it is to deflect from criticism against Yelp itself and maybe even increase their extortion efforts towards businesses.