Posted on 06/19/2024 3:21:23 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
The push for DEI has reached the peak of absurdity and danger, folks. We’re now risking life and limb to prove to some phantom source that we’re not racist by trekking through dangerous neighborhoods. Mr. and Mrs. Jones from the suburbs are now tiptoeing down the mean streets of urban America, dodging bullets and beatdowns just to avoid offending “low-income” communities. The hubbub started when Kasey Klimes, a senior UX researcher for Google Maps from 2017 to 2021, wrote a thread on X suggesting it’s racist to offer a “scenic route” option because it would route traffic away from low-income areas, who somehow depend on foot or car traffic from random suburbanites in order to thrive.
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A creative attorney could make trouble for Alphabet, Inc., if one of these mishaps are a result of misdirection.
But what this will eventually do is render Google unreliable and irrelevant, much like what Wikipedia has become (even 20 years ago, students were warned by professors to NOT cite Wikipedia as an information source for good reason).
Made this mistake one time in LA on business. Blindly followed the directions.......straight into the hood. Car full of four white guys in shades and white shirts/ties. The technology said this was the quickest route, but was not recognizing there was a stop sign or light at every corner. Needless to say we were late for our appointment.
Wife and we’re coming across the country years ago. Got rerouted through Gary Indiana due to an accident on the interstate 90. Good news it was bumper to bumper traffic through a real shady section.
Wife was scared and zipped up the windows.... We were in a jeep with a soft top. I was laughing, then she got it.
How is that "racist"? Not all low-income people are black (to which the author is referring).
You’ll have to do the hard work of rerouting yourself.
It is a good thing there are options.
It’s common sense that one should NEVER travel through a democrat jungle infested with hungry pygmy cannibals. You must always be cognizant that your flesh could become food at any time when greeting the “natives”. This is what the big cities in America have become, thanks to the Rat voters. /spit
I can see it now, Google maps having a menu with in addition to “avoid bridges, tolls, ferries, and highways” there is “avoid bad neighborhoods”.
All directions should be thru the heart of the slums and where the crime rates are thru the roof! It is the only way liberals will get a true meaning of diversity since they would follow like the sheep they are. Conservatives know better than to venture into those areas. Sometime you have to give them exactly what they want with both barrels!
“Not all low-income people are black”
‘poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’
-J. R. Biden
Google searches are irrelevant too. They are hampered.
There was a program that was avoid crime zones. Based on national stastics.It was tanked because oddly enough it avoided black neighborhoods.
Exactly, as radio/podcast personality, Joe Soucheray says:
“The closer you get to the country’s tallest buildings.”
Why not just offer two options:
The scenic route, where you won’t have to worry about meeting your maker during the trip.
The diversity route, where you will likely be making your last trip, but it will be filled with excitement. Also called the suicide route.
Maybe people FROM the ‘hood might want to go the scenic route? Maybe it’s racist to exclude them from info on the scenic route and restrict them to going through the ‘hood that they see every day anyway?
they are welcome to route traffic away from my neighborhood!
I would welcome it!
I’m old school- I’ll look at the online map and pick my own route. And I very reluctantly get off the main highway in Detroit. South of 8 mile anyways.
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“Confirming ‘Virtue signaling’ route”
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