Re:Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls
by sangnoir on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:29AM
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> But then you get into an even deeper question 'are minorities/blacks 10% of said consumers of products?'.
Maybe run that question by legal first! Protected classes exist for a good reason (IMO). What percentage of a restaurant's business is from people in wheelchairs, yet the law mandates ramp access.
But then you get into an even deeper question 'are minorities/blacks 10% of said consumers of products?'. Poverty, for example, could mean that the product doesn't work for 5% of the buyers, which then begs the question 'how much effort do you put in fixing the problem for a small percentage of the buyers?', especially when the amount of effort is going to be very large/time consuming/expensive. If you are a person looking for racism, you will judge google as racist. If you are looking at it from a position of a business attempting to make a profit on a product, you will not see it as racist.