BBC: Microsoft in web photo racism row

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HoodFigga said:

Yojimbo said:

Funny when people try to make the racist thing just to black people.

 

I would have thought it was racist even if they changed from white to black or white to asian. They could have taken a new picture or not changed the picture at all. Another thing is that Polen have foreign people so the excause for marketing is not good enough, what about the asian? You cant even complain of things that are wrong now days without being laboured as the sensitive person who cant understand the society. I'm not saying that Microsoft is racist. I am saying that big companies should watch out doing such stupid things. Was it really worth to photoshop that picture? I would like to hear the discussion they had when they changed the picture.

I agree. I always find it funny when people use this weak argument because their unoriginality doesn't allow them to come up with a valid point to disprove racism.

 

I also agree with this.

 

Everyone defending this has yet to give a solid point on why this is not racist. Someone mentioned trying to meet a deadline? LOL you can't be serious. They have time to photoshop one head but not the other? I've seen people photoshop stuff like this within a matter of minutes. At least come up with a better reason.

The world you seem to want to live in is a scary one, where everyone become so sensitive that they're easily offended by someone else, and where the offended start accusing before even asking the accused what his/her motive was.  You have no way to prove this edit was done for a racist reason, anymore than I can prove it wasn't.  I'm just going by past experience working for a large company where most people were just trying to get their work done, not looking for ways to offend people.

The attitude of "you're guilty of racism because I say so" probably causes more racial tension that a lot of these "offensive" actions actually cause.