Is Microsoft Racist?
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this is the same kind of answer that was given by yahtzee on the subject of if capcom is racist for RE:5... probably just some ppl within the company are stupid...
Well when you get a company as large as MS you're bound to get one dude who hates black people. Weather or not this guy heated the sight of black skin or was simply worried other people would is up for debate though, but, personally, I think that regardless of the reasons this dude has fucked up and should get fired.
Well, maybe that's a little hard, but MS has to respond to this decisively, if they want to salvage their public image that is.
Well, maybe that's a little hard, but MS has to respond to this decisively, if they want to salvage their public image that is.
short answer : no
long answer : noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
nope thats a really bad photoshop attempt im think either its some hackers playing funny business with sites or the pr office in poland have gone snooker loopy
so no i dont think microsoft is racist
long answer : noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
nope thats a really bad photoshop attempt im think either its some hackers playing funny business with sites or the pr office in poland have gone snooker loopy
so no i dont think microsoft is racist
Based on their XBox Customer Support, I believe that the latter is quite likely.Baby Tea said:
(Now a serious answer) It seems poorly photoshopped, I'm suspecting the work of a thrid party. Knowing Microsoft, if they really needed it changing, they would have photoshopped the hands aswell. They aren't that sloppy.
Agreed.MaxTheReaper said:
Also, the thing at fault here is the modern day interpretation of racism. That picture? That's not racist. What is racist is brutally torturing then killing someone because of the fact that they are of a different ethnicity than you. And we say history taught us something... guess not.
And since almost every person has some trace of racism in them (for most people it is subconscious), collectively yes, Microsoft's employees are racist. But so is everyone else.
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT THAT FUCKING PICTURE
The Swedish translation probably reads "BLARGH OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MY HAND???"
I'm guessing they just did this to make the scene in that board room seem a little more native to those in Poland. I don't really know how many old black men there are in Poland, and I'm guessing whoever made that awful shop doesn't know either.
Seriously! jesus christ how could they have fucked up that picture any worse (without putting a horse's head on it!!!) There's a shadow on the jacket connecting to the gleaming bright reflection on his cheek, and his face is dark and just a foot away from the woman's clearly lit visage - THIS IS PITIFUL
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The Swedish translation probably reads "BLARGH OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MY HAND???"
I'm guessing they just did this to make the scene in that board room seem a little more native to those in Poland. I don't really know how many old black men there are in Poland, and I'm guessing whoever made that awful shop doesn't know either.
Seriously! jesus christ how could they have fucked up that picture any worse (without putting a horse's head on it!!!) There's a shadow on the jacket connecting to the gleaming bright reflection on his cheek, and his face is dark and just a foot away from the woman's clearly lit visage - THIS IS PITIFUL
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this is all trueArcWinter said:
Ive been ninjad on this but never mind. What bugs me is the way that racism only works one way. If in an advert EVERY single white guy was replaced with a black guy, that wouldnt be classed by the general public as racist it would just be odd. Replace one black person with a white man and its racist. I never understood this. Can someone explain?
Microsoft is racist in that they don't think the Polish culture is ready to accept at a black man in a business suite.
I highly doubt they'd be stupid enough to be caught photshopping. I think I'll starting wondering if microsoft is racist when they pull out the stereotype in advertisements.
I agree. They were marketing to a predominantly white nation and they were just playing for the crowd. I'm not saying that it's ethically right, but demographics are inherently racist. Companies do this all the time if they can get away with it, and when they do get caught, "Deny, deny, deny". They'll fire the artist (who will be branded a racist for the rest of their life) and recover like they always do. As a bad guy would say in a bad dystopic-future movie, "It's just business".Baby Tea said:
Mine are that people are making too big of a deal out of racism now days... I swear every time I hear the word it is something about white people doing something to black people... I never hear anything about Asians, Europeans, Australians... Maybe, rarely, something about Mexicans, but 99% of the time it is always about black people... I bet that they could make a game where you were a black guy going around killing all white people and nobody would say a thing about it...bjj hero said:
Never mind. That's all a matter of the target market. I know nothing about marketing but I know that you advertise to who you're going to be selling a product to. If you're selling a product in the US where there is a large black population it makes sense to have black people in your advertising. If you're advertising to Poland, what an almost non-existent black population it would not be in your best interests to advertise for a market that doesn't exist.
It would also cost more money to do an entirely new photo shoot than to get your IT guy to shop in a guy who Polish folks will actually relate with.
corporattions arent racist, employees maybe, but tarring the whole lot with the same brush is just as bad as any other prejudice to be honest
maybe theyve made some stupid decisions that can lead to them presenting images which may appear racist, but that is not reason enough to black list the entire company
maybe theyve made some stupid decisions that can lead to them presenting images which may appear racist, but that is not reason enough to black list the entire company