Sunday, August 10, 2014

Avoiding Dangerous Neighborhoods Is Racist Now

Headline:
Smiling Young White People Make App for Avoiding Black Neighborhoods

" Crain's reports on SketchFactor, a racist app made for avoiding "sketchy" neighborhoods, which is the term young white people use to describe places where they don't feel safe because they watched all five seasons of The Wire...

With firsthand experience living in Washington, D.C., where white terror is as ubiquitous as tucked-in polo shirts, grinning caucasians Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington should be unstoppable in the field of smartphone race-baiting—they're already finalists in a $20,000 startup contest! But don't worry: they're not racist. It says so right on their blog, which asks people to share "sketchy" stories about strangers they spot:"

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This Leftist racist knows that all bad neighborhoods are black and he has no qualms in coming to that conclusion. He further goes completely out of his way to assert white racism about whites (white terror is as ubiquitous as tucked-in polo shirts) in order to boost his street creds.

Says Hot Air:
"This is all a pretty damning condemnation of both the developers and the app… unless, that is, you actually look at what it does. Not only does it not identify places where users see non-white people, but there doesn’t seem to be a category to report the presence of Black Neighborhoods, or ethnic statistics of any kind. But aside from the aforementioned low lighting, higher crime areas, what other sorts of things can all of these racist white people report to the app?

"We have a reporting mechanism for racial profiling, harassment, low lighting, desolate areas, weird stuff, you name it. When people actually download the app, they see that this is truly a tool for everyone."

I’m sorry… did you say racial profiling? And harassment? If the cops in the Big Apple are racially profiling and harassing white people, there’s a big element to this story that the media has been totally missing."

2 comments:

Steven Satak said...

The media have not been missing it any more than they've been missing Benghazi and the IRS scandal and the support the White House give Hamas.

Unknown said...

Apparently, Microsoft got into similar hot water a couple of years back over including crime statistics in its GPS route-calculation algorithms because apparently not wanting to get mugged is racist.

I'm waiting for the first lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to stop reporting crime stats on the grounds that merely noticing crime rates is racial profiling or some such.