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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by steveeq1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:38PM (#14648013)
> I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem.

One can make the same argument about height-ism, ugly-ism, or money-ism.

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Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer... by zo1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:18PM (#14650456)
No, we only want to include the discrimination that we don't like. Attractive, tall and rich people are not a protected class of citizens!
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