When does technology step over that line from being merely useful to becoming insidiously stereotype enforcing?
Whether you agree this device enforces stereotypical characterization or is a tool that provides practical, useful information, the fact is PC is becoming unacceptably more intrusive on our lives in ways never imagined, opening you mind to the realization the end is nowhere in sight.
To those of us in the decidedly non-PC camp, the increasing encroachment of convoluted PC ideology is more a case of putting the cart before the horse in a way that demonstrates left-wing, liberal mindthink run amok as seen here.
That crime exists to varying degrees in demographically distinct realms unto themselves has always been a consideration, way of life as means to avoid being in harm's way. Would a practitioner of convoluted PC ideology even suggest that the use of statistical guidelines as means to traversing the urban jungle be frowned upon as being that of PC heresy? Even the most ardent among them would be hard pressed to muster a rationale for just such idiocy.
So, why should a device utilizing the very same principle evoke more of the same illogical PC rage?
I stay away from any Martin Luther King Blvd. Case Closed.
Same reporter sees no problem with the FIND A FAGGOT APP.
My guess is that if Svati Kirsten Narula suffers a couple of severe beat downs in the wrong zip code she might just want to privately download Ghetto Tracker.
Not having your skull bashed in tops PC feel-good any day of the week.
>> but letting a computer algorithm divert you from a particular neighborhood on account of statistics is problematic.
Why?
Mindless PC Multiculturalism, or any answer that boils down to same, is not an acceptable answer, Svati.
My advice is to never live anywhere that has public transportation.
No public transportation = no ghetto dwellers!
Stereotypes exist for a reason. See my tagline.
Just don't go anywhere near it and you will be fine.
Bet the media doesn’t feel the same way when they pre-filter news stories for the masses.
Doesn’t the State Department issue travel warnings for unsafe countries? Isn’t this the same thing?
The real reason for the outrage is that the left thinks that everyone should be treated equally. Whitey should wander into high crime areas and get murdered or robbed just like the people who live there.
The left hates it when Whitey has a ‘special privilege.’
Got news for the left. Non-Whites would have used the app same as Whites.
We need an app like this.
Why did they change the title?
“Ghetto Tracker” is actually pretty cool.
And skip the PC sensitivities, Oakland, Philly, Chicago, Camden, etc. DO have ghettos, areas that are literally a threat to your life.
Let everyone who has a problem with this app do a drive at night thru these areas, that should permanently change their mindset (if they’re still alive afterwards)
Interesting that she used the term, “Classist.”
Damn right I’m a Classist.
So an application that helps strangers in town to avoid areas where they have a higher possibility of becoming victims of crime is racist?
I’m awaiting the inevitable lawsuit when someone using the app gets mugged in a “safe” part of town.
God forbid that any of us should manage to protect ourselves from murderous thugs — even passively — by avoiding dangerous parts of a city. Am I stereotyping because I avoid the Trinidad and Anacostia neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. like the plague, and if necessary will drive miles and miles out of my way to avoid passing through them? If so, tough. The one time I blundered into Anacostia, a concerned elderly lady asked me what I was doing there and told me to drive until I was out of it and not to stop for any reason. I have a right to take whatever steps necessary to ensure my personal security. Stereotypes be damned. There is a very good reason for them and I find them useful tools. Next Eric Holder will try to force us all to go hang out in those places.