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Microsoft apologises for racism
India Times ^
| August 26, 2009
| AP
Posted on 08/26/2009 11:56:20 AM PDT by SolidWood
LOS ANGELES: Software giant Microsoft Corp is apologising for altering a photo on its website to change the race of one of the people shown in t he picture.
A photo on the Seattle-based company's US website shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table.
(Excerpt) Read more at infotech.indiatimes.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakephotos; fauxtography; marketing; microsoft; photoshop; poland; racism
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posted on
08/26/2009 11:56:21 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
To: SolidWood
They should have said they were honoring Michael Jackson
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posted on
08/26/2009 11:58:46 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: SolidWood
And what has Microsoft done that the Obamaloon administration has not?
Microsoft’s problems stem from the fact that their software is of Yugo quality.
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posted on
08/26/2009 11:58:51 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: SolidWood
But on the website of Microsoft's Polish business unit, the black man's head has been replaced with that of a white man. The colour of his hand remains unchanged. Did they think nobody would notice?
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posted on
08/26/2009 11:59:01 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: SolidWood
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posted on
08/26/2009 11:59:57 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: SolidWood
So was he made Polish in the revised photo for that market?
Why didn't they have had a Pole included in the original grouping?
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posted on
08/26/2009 11:59:59 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
To: SolidWood
But on the website of Microsoft's Polish business unit, the black man's head has been replaced with that of a white man. The colour of his hand remains unchanged. DUH!
Are the native Polish that much averse to black people anyhow?
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:00:00 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
To: SolidWood
It's called "marketing" and "demographics".
If the Poles marketed a product here, and Photoshopped a black guy's head onto Polish man's body, would there be outrage?
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:01:07 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: rawhide
Just forgot to Photoshop the hand.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:01:11 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
To: SolidWood
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:02:15 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Screw the RACErs.)
To: FlyVet
I think black people would be incensed at the “mulatto” body.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:02:16 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
To: SolidWood
They need to apologize for the piss-poor photoshop work...
To: NMEwithin
No one at MS has photoshop. They have to use MS Paint.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:09:42 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: TC Rider
To: a fool in paradise
I dunno - why don’chu take a pole? ;0)
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:12:51 PM PDT
by
PoolQue
To: paulycy
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:12:54 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: SolidWood
Where is the outrage at Poland!?!
Obviously they do not meet the international quota requirement all modern Western liberal Societies should follow as it pertains to total numbers and percent of black folks in the total population.
I say we approach the African American leadership here and develop an outreach program to allow for immigration of some of their people to Poland so they may become “African Poles” and help set the balance right....
This should not be allowed to stand.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:14:43 PM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(There's something socialist in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call? MITTBUSTERS!)
To: Izzy Dunne
Both men look like Monica Lewinsky is under that desk.
To: Izzy Dunne
Whats the fuss?
They both look like dweebs.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:18:37 PM PDT
by
Adder
(Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
To: paulycy
Zaphod Microsoft on Enzyte
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:24:06 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The way to destroy a countercultural movement is to have white people start liking it.)
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