Posted on 09/05/2023 9:25:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In his 2019 book The Madness of the Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Douglas Murray exposed the cultural insanity that has gripped so much of the modern world. He pointed out that, no sooner was there more equality than ever between the sexes that the war on men was launched. And no sooner was there more equality than ever between the races that the war on whiteness was launched.
Murray brought a wide array of arguments to support his theses, but none were more striking than the images that came up on Google searches for specific terms and phrases. It was hard to deny what you could see with your own eyes.
That was back in 2019, and one would think that with such damning revelations, Google would have made some changes. In fact, months before Murray’s book came out, a headline announced, “Google Explains Why Some Image Search Results Look Racist.” (Sorry, but I didn’t find the article convincing in the least, especially given the sophistication of these search engines.)
Murray had pointed out that when you searched Google for Gay Couples, you would see a host of images with gay couples, as expected. When you searched for Black Couples, you would see a host of images with Black couples, again, as expected.
But if you searched for Straight Couples or White Couples or Straight White couples , the results were anything but what you could expect.
Now, Murray’s book was widely read, and one would think that the embarrassment caused by this information would have brought about some search integrity.
For my part, it was only this year that I dove into The Madness of the Crowds , so I decided to check the results for myself. Surely, I would not get the same results Murray got four years later, right? Wrong.
Let’s start with Black Couples, clicking on Images. My search yielded row after row of Black couples. What do you know!
Now we’ll switch to Gay Couples. What did the Google search engine produce? The same thing. Row after row of images of gay couples, some with their kids, but all male-male or female-female. The only exception was the occasional image of a throuple, but here too, all three participants were gay.
How about Black Gay Couples? Yet again, exactly what you asked for: every image is of a Black gay couple, with “gay” specifically meaning “male.”
Now let’s try White Couples. What comes up in the search?
The first couple features a White man and a Black woman. The same with the second image (I’m not making this up). The fourth image is that of a Black man and possibly a Hispanic man (the image links to the website, “Loving Interracial Couples”), and the fifth is that of a White woman and a Black man.
I tried this on different days and the results were shockingly similar. What in the world is going on?
When I searched for Straight Couples, there was at least one image of a same-sex couple on each of the first three rows, some of the images linked to an article on what straight couples could learn from gay couples.
When I searched for Straight White Couples — to repeat, I am not making this up — the very first image that came up was that of a gay interracial couple — chew on that for a moment — a White man and a Black man. To repeat, this was searching for Straight White Couples.
To be sure, there was also a link to a YouTube video titled, “Searching straight white couples on Google images. Douglas Murray was right!” That video is two years old, yet still, two years later, no change.
Even something as simple as searching for Black Men and then White Men yielded the same results. All Black men for the first search; lots of White men, plus Black men for the second search.
Talk about political correctness on steroids and beyond. Talk about mass manipulation, especially when you realize that the vast amount of manipulation is not so obvious and blatant.
Put another way, the manipulation can be so powerful because you don’t know you’re being manipulated since you’re actually searching for information in order to learn and be informed. Not everything is as it seems!
Just out of curiosity, I repeated these searches on Microsoft’s Bing.
While the search for Black and Gay individuals and couples produced the expected results, the search for White Couples yielded the exact opposite. Out of the first six images, every single one featured a multi-racial couple. At the risk of being redundant, I kid you not!
Of the next six images, again, only one featured an all-White couple and one featured an all-Black couple. This is beyond insane.
As for Straight Couples in Bing, it only took four images before you were introduced to your first same-sex couple, while in the second row of images, there was another same-sex couple followed by a straight couple waving gay pride flags. Naturally!
Finally, searching for Straight White Couples yielded the following: of the first 11 images, four featured interracial couples, three featured same-sex couples, one featured a Black couple, and three featured straight White couples — but again, one of the images featured that same straight couple with the rainbow flags.
How does one say in Latin, “Let the searcher beware?”
Just tried it on Duck-Duck. Inappropriate images as the article suggests for white or straight white couples.
Expect the same with AI. Tech firms are throwing out AI results that do not match liberal narratives.
I work in tech, but you dont have to be a lifetime pro to figure that out.
On the model of “caveat emptor” ( let the buyer beware )
s/b “caveat scrutator”
( Latin fan, but not a scholar )
What have the Republicans done about it?
Google isn’t a “search engine”. It’s a propaganda tool.
One of the good things about nuclear war is that it would wipe out the coastal cities, thus cleaning up this mess for good.
Spot-on, but a good EMP would accomplish the same without all the fallout (it’ll just take a bit longer).
The Russian search engine gave absolutely normal results!
Whites couples only, no homosexuals, no miscegenation.
Irony of ironies: if you want honest unbiased results you have to use the Russian search engine.
Yikes! Scary.
Google Explains Why Some Image Search Results Look Racist
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-image-search-results-racist-26904.html
‘Danny explained “As it turns out, when people post images of white couples, they tend to say only “couples” & not provide a race. But when there are mixed couples, then “white” gets mentioned. Our image search depends on heavily words — so when we don’t get the words, this can happen.’
If you’re a FReeper and Google is your default search engine, you are doing it wrong.
DeGoogle your lives, people.
Resources for that:
https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
I know the Search Cite I use is influenced by the Big G, but at least I never go to the Big G for ANY INFORMATIO...INFORMATION THAT...THEY...WANT YOU TO SEE.
No thanks. Bunch of Foreigners.
And yet most useful idiots still blindly use it.
People...are....stupid.
Real AI would figure it out eventually and that’s when it becomes dangerous.
Everybody knows that control of all means of media and communications is the "key to the mind of the masses."
Don't believe me. Ask Joseph Goebbels.
Why do you think he was one of Hitler's closest allies?
Ever wonder why? 'Cause it works. Just look around you. Look at what it led to in Germany in the 30s.
Google is just "high tech" propaganda only just a bit more cleverly disguised.
I have long thought that, since shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has become far more American, while the U.S. has become far more like the Soviet Union.
, when people post images of white couples, they tend to say only "couples" & not provide a race. But when there are mixed couples, then "white" gets mentioned. Our image search depends on heavily words -- so when we don't get the words, this can happen. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 3, 2019
So lets try a better "canary" test:
"the bible only condemns homosexual relations" (without quotes):
Rather than most of the top results affirming this fact, 6 out of the top 10 either deny this fact or question it.
And "HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS are sin in the BIBLE" (without quotes):
The top 2 results deny this, hollowed by a mix.
And incredibly, searching for "HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS are sin in the BIBLE" in quotes results in,
No results found for "HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS are sin in the BIBLE". Despite there being 1.13 billion websites on the world wide web as of June 2023. ...
And "HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE"
results in just 11 results.
When I’m looking for an address, phone number, hours of operation, etc, I tend to use Google. It still works for that.
If I’m looking for actual information, including a company web site, Yandex gives me that with far less redirection, distraction and useless crap.
The other day, I was stung by a wasp and was looking for information on treatment. Google gave me two pages of the same generically useless text verbatim copied by dozens of different sites. Yandex gave me useful links on the first page.
My point is that there is an interference in “Real AI” so far. If said woke company does not like the results, they are tossed. Im watching it in real time.
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