Posted on 08/26/2009 5:07:23 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
LOS ANGELES — Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.
A photo on the Seattle-based company's U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on the Web site of Microsoft's Polish business unit, the black man's head has been replaced with that of a white man. The color of his hand remains unchanged.
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Nothing wrong with it, but if they want to appeal to those in their Polish market, they are alomst 100% white. SO why not put a white guy in there?
Library User, that is the post of the day. LOL!
Not being said is how many times white people are photo shopped out of the picture(s) for the African markets.
Reality is not compatible with PC/leftist ideology.
NEW YORK (AP) - A statue based on the famous photograph of the flag-raising at the World Trade Center site is being criticized because the three white firefighters in the picture have been transformed into one white, one black and one Hispanic.
Some firefighters and their families say the 19-foot bronze is political correctness run amok and an attempt to rewrite history.
The $180,000 sculpture is expected to be erected this spring at the Fire Department's Brooklyn headquarters in tribute to the 343 firefighters killed in the attack. It is based on the Sept. 11 newspaper photo of firefighters raising the American flag on about 20 feet of rubble.
The decision to represent different races was made by the Fire Department, the makers of the statue, and the property-management company that owns the department headquarters building and commissioned the work.
``Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbolic of those sacrifices, ultimately a decision was made to honor no one in particular, but everyone who made the supreme sacrifice,'' Fire Department spokesman Frank Gribbon said.
But Tony Marden of Ladder 165 in Queens called the decision ``an insult to those three guys to put imaginary faces on that statue. It's not a racial thing. That shouldn't even be an issue.'' And Carlo Casoria, who lost his firefighter son, Thomas, said: ``They're rewriting history in order to achieve political correctness.''
Perfect. That’s the only possible compromise that will satisfy the PC folk.
hahahaha i just got all wee-weed up from laughing at that pic.
You are killing ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-O
It has nothing to do with race. They needed a picture of a man seated at a desk, and found one.
The people who claim this has anything to do with race are out of their minds.
I think even mentioning that fact is racist!
I live in an "ethnically challenged" (how's that for PC) area. When I travel to an area with much more diversity it's quite noticeable to me. I recently traveled to an area outside Chicago that could pass for "Little Mexico". I kid you not. I thought I had been dropped into Mexico by mistake. If 25 people were in a restaurant, 24 were Hispanic. I few days after I returned home I received a travel brochure from the Chamber of Commerce from this city. Not one of the subjects in the pictures selling the city was anything close to Hispanic. It could have been a travel brochure for Sweden with all the blonde and blue-eyed people.
Black guy’s head is ugly and too large for his body. It was originally photoshopped. Besides, the Anointed One is a mulatto. Anyone check his hands?
The big boiler company I worked for 35 years ago air-brushed a hippy out of a control room photo in a brochure. There were two version of the brochure - with and without hippy. And that was way before Photoshop when you had to really use an airbrush!
LOL!
Yes, but they're only allowed to use MS Paint.
Yes, I am kidding.
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