 eovogt
Male, 18-29, Canada
 197 Posts
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:56:41 PM
It's racist because of the pooty sentence structure. |
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 sosueme1966
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
335 Posts
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:03:27 AM
I love everyone's technical break downs of exactly why it happened. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Umm.....no one really thought the computer was racist, you super serious DBs.
Lighten up. |
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 8BitHero
Male, 18-29, Europe
5420 Posts
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:27:40 AM
It's not racist because it doesn't understand the meaning of the sentence nor the history of black people. |
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 deyv87
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
258 Posts
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:20:22 AM
Damn my color blindness... |
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 Justin9235
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1573 Posts
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:08:21 AM
@deyv87
Then it would have been underlined in red, not green. |
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deyv87
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
258 Posts
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 12:33:27 AM
The person probably just set up his spell check to suggest "are not many" when "arenmany" is typed, then changed the n's color to white.
Edit: the kerning isn't right for an 'n' to be in there, so maybe it's an 'l' or an 'i'. |
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onoffonoffon
Male, 30-39, Western US
1310 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:36:14 PM
It should start "Many blacks..." |
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 BunnyNaku
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
5245 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 10:43:05 PM
tsk tsk |
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skullgrin
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
856 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:43:50 PM
"A "proper" screenshot is easily faked "
how hard is it to fake a screen shot and then take a pic of it? |
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 DuckBoy87
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2125 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:17:12 PM
OldOllie, I do agree; there are way too many clustered adjectives, but I was just using what I was given. |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8949 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:32:26 PM
DuckBoy87, as a professional editor, I wouldn't change your version of the sentence, but it's just a bit wordy for my taste. |
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 Tubby12370
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1369 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:18:55 PM
Sadly, yes Viking864 |
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 Viking864
Male, 40-49, Southern US
817 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:50:40 PM
Jesus Christ we are becoming a world filled with easily offended idiots. |
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 Discobiscuit
Male, 18-29, Western US
543 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:48:22 PM
@Enjin
A "proper" screenshot is easily faked |
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 Enjin
Male, 30-39, Asia
731 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:24:00 PM
I agree MrPeabody.
Why so racist MS Word user who doesn't know how to take a screen shot? |
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 MrPeabody
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
1502 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:18:31 PM
@5Cats
"it looks like an essay on how wrong it is to use crime statistics to demonize all black people."
It could just as easily be an essay about George Zimmerman, but we are talking about the sentence not the essay which we do not have to examine.
It is racist because it singles out a specific race, black people. It then points out that many are good upstanding citizens, as if there is a significant percentage of black people who are not good upstanding citizens. A sentence like that perpetuates the notion that black people are not good citizens.
If you put any other group into a sentence like that you will see what I mean, for example:
"There are many Canadians who are educated, literate people."
This puts the idea into the back of your mind that there are Canadians who are not educated, and illiterate. |
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 Steelgrid
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
2690 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 6:02:31 PM
Why you so racist, races? |
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DuckBoy87
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2125 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:58:11 PM
Actually OldOllie, you should take out the linking verb to make the sentence "pop".
A better sentence would be "Many good, upstanding, black citizens exist in society, today." |
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 OpsAss13
Male, 30-39, Western US
510 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:18:22 PM
Why the reference to Windows 7? Does Word only work on 7 all of a sudden???? |
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 Rick_S
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2861 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:04:40 PM
I'm using the American dictionary, and it did not suggest it in mine. |
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 Clunkst
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
114 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:57:31 PM
he didn't cite his source that's plagiarism |
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OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8949 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:49:37 PM
It's pointing out a TERRIBLE sentence construction. It should read, "Many blacks are good, upstanding citizens." In my day, turning in a composition with "There are many who are..." would have gotten you an automatic F. |
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 skypirate
Male, 18-29, Western US
1824 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:34:57 PM
Y U So Racist I-A-B? Damn i-a-b... I knew I didn't like you. |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
17467 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 3:51:57 PM
?? Not seeing that @Mr Peabody... it looks like an essay on how wrong it is to use crime statistics to demonize all black people. It may not be well written as is, but I wouldn't call it racist... |
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 korahn
Male, 18-29, Canada
873 Posts
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 3:30:37 PM
didn't attempt to "correct" it in mine, this person must be using the American dictionary for spell check and grammar check. |
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