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26-08-2009, 07:43 PM
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Atheist jihad
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Microsoft in web photo racism row
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I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence - Doug McLeod
Those who believe in absurdities will commit atrocities - Voltaire
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26-08-2009, 07:49 PM
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"The white head and black hand actually symbolise interracial harmony. It is supposed to show that a person can be white and black, old and young at the same time," said one blogger on the Photoshop Disasters blog.
Balls.
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26-08-2009, 08:22 PM
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be positive
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i dont get why that would show anything
would have been far better to leave them as they were
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26-08-2009, 09:49 PM
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Bow chicka wow woww (used to be OverYou)
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Yeah my initial reaction was that it's cus poland are racist.
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26-08-2009, 10:03 PM
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I'll let you **** my soul, for a hit of that glow
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Poland is majority white so the image is unrepresentative of the audience.
Bad marketing (ineffective on target demographic) = loss of revenue.
It is perfectly understandable. Not really racist.
Stalinist Russia was chockablock with images edited because they depicted things that were judged to be detrimental to the message they were trying to convey.
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26-08-2009, 10:08 PM
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Cheap Beauty
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You would think such a giant computer company would at least be able to photo edit (and double check their images!) well enough to change both hand and face?
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Hunger only for a taste of justice, hunger only for a world of truth, for all that you have is your soul. I love BarrelO'Crazy
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26-08-2009, 10:16 PM
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Atheist jihad
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Originally Posted by Miiikeee
Poland is majority white so the image is unrepresentative of the audience.
Bad marketing (ineffective on target demographic) = loss of revenue.
It is perfectly understandable. Not really racist.
True but they left the asian guy in and there's probably not a huge asian community in poland. I don't think every polish person is racist though my polish neighbours told me one of the reasons they moved here from north london was that there were too many black people.
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I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence - Doug McLeod
Those who believe in absurdities will commit atrocities - Voltaire
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27-08-2009, 03:09 PM
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You are free.
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I LOVE THIS STORY.
I was reading it in work and it made me laugh so much.
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27-08-2009, 06:15 PM
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Voldemort's Bitch
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Why does everything have to come down to black and white? Honestly, it's melatonin in skin, who gives a damn?
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Imperfection is underrated.
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27-08-2009, 07:03 PM
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Poland's Asian minority is quite a bit larger than the black minority. Granted these are mostly north-western Asians and not east Asians, but it is not as unfeasible to see an Asian in the workplace in Poland as it is a black.
I'm sure we're not going to see any Native Americans in advertisements if we go to Kenya. Is that racist? Nope. Its targeting the right demographic.
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27-08-2009, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by whirlpools
But the thing is he was in the photo originally, and that must be for a reason.
Because the photo was originally taken for an American audience who have a far more varied demographic than Poland.
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28-08-2009, 10:59 AM
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It's okay. I have a supersoaker.
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Who cares? Why is it a big deal at all? Are people so insecure about who they are that they need to complain cause they edited a black man out of a photo? Go to Iran. You'll be happy. No white people in photos over there.
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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
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28-08-2009, 11:41 AM
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Tom
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I find it funnier that the black/white guy is using a mac.
>_>
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No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do
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28-08-2009, 02:27 PM
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Jane
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Originally Posted by Miiikeee
Poland is majority white so the image is unrepresentative of the audience.
Bad marketing (ineffective on target demographic) = loss of revenue.
It is perfectly understandable. Not really racist.
Stalinist Russia was chockablock with images edited because they depicted things that were judged to be detrimental to the message they were trying to convey.
This
Originally Posted by start.stop.synchro
I find it funnier that the black/white guy is using a mac.
>_>
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28-08-2009, 03:54 PM
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vs. elvis.
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Originally Posted by Dreaming.
I LOVE THIS STORY.
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take what you love
burn it down.
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02-09-2009, 08:24 PM
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in an ocean that is churning
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****ing hilarious.
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How many ticks left in that clockwork heart?
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02-09-2009, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Dreaming.
I LOVE THIS STORY.
I was reading it in work and it made me laugh so much.
Aye I saw the pics last week and thought they were funny 
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