Posted on 08/09/2014 9:16:42 AM PDT by chessplayer
What if you were moving to or visiting a city where you didnt know your way around? And what if you were worried about wandering into a high crime area, but didnt know the layout of the city? What if you were looking for good deals on hotels before your trip, but werent sure which areas were safe to go out and grab a cab in? What if you wanted to avoid dimly lit sections of town with scant law enforcement coverage? And if you were to find an app for your phone which could provide all of this information on a map ahead of time, what might you say to the people who developed it?
Well, duh theyre clearly racists.
At least thats the very clearly stated opinion of Sam Biddle at Gawker in his review of a new app called SketchFactor which does just what I described above.
Is there any way to keep white people from using computers, before this whole planet is ruined? I ask because the two enterprising white entrepreneurs above just made yet another app for avoiding non-white areas of your townand its really taking off!
Crains reports on SketchFactor, a racist app made for avoiding sketchy neighborhoods, which is the term young white people use to describe places where they dont feel safe because they watched all five seasons of The Wire
Was I too fast in assuming that the author was trying to insert some hot, race card goodness into the discussion of a new app for your phone? I really dont think so, given that he goes on to identify the co-developers of the product as grinning caucasians Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington. Oh, and the actual title of the article was, Smiling Young White People Make App for Avoiding Black Neighborhoods. Oh, thats not too racially charged now, is it?
This is all a pretty damning condemnation of both the developers and the app
unless, that is, you actually look at what it does. Not only does it not identify places where users see non-white people, but there doesnt seem to be a category to report the presence of Black Neighborhoods, or ethnic statistics of any kind. But aside from the aforementioned low lighting, higher crime areas, what other sorts of things can all of these racist white people report to the app?
It didnt make any difference to the policy makers in Clintons administration.
Yep, good old Andrew Cuomo, Jr.
"Do you think these guys know The Commodores?"
Apparently they use it the same way this new APP is designed to be used.
When I start seeing check cashing joints, signs advertising rental furniture with "E-Z" payments and "Payday Loans" - it's time to lock down your doors, hang a right turn, then another right and quickly get back to whence you came.
Martin Luther King Boulevard...always a dead giveaway you took a wrong turn. Punch "Maple Drive" into your GPS (any tree name will do) and just go where it tells you - take my word on that.
“Roll ‘em up!”
I can think of a lot of black and Latino people who would like to avoid high crime areas. Are they racist too?
Just wait until some ‘blacks’ write an App that helps them avoid Hispanic neighborhoods.
I did that once in Oakland. Pretty much, I wouldn't get off on any exit in Oakland unless I were going somewhere specific and I knew it was the right exit.
The dead president streets in Chicago are generally OK as long as you stay east of Halsted street and north of the Eisenhower Expressway. That’s because all of those presidents (except for the Adamses and VanBuren) owned slaves. LOL
Damn, I can’t find it for android.
High crime areas have exactly the same outlines on the map as areas filled with America’s first victim group. So if you show a high crime area, you are showing a high minority area.
Is it coincidental the “bad” (dangerous) neighborhoods tend to be black or ethnic neighborhoods? If an app that helps me avoid an area based on crime statistics tends to direct me away from areas that have a high black or ethnic population, how is that racist? Sometimes the truth hurts.
Bet your sweet bippy Jesse Jackson would use it.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
Yes, when my parents moved they were informed that their Auto insurance would be going up. They were also asked which side of a main thoroughfare they were on and told that being on the east would have raised it even further.
I just tried to get the Apple version. Nothing. Not in the App Store at all. Looks like they have already wiped it out??
It appears that the App Store has blocked it from Search. I tried every combination. So much for First Amendment rights. You’ll have to go directly to their website for the download link.
http://www.sketchfactor.com/download/
That's already been investigated and debunked. No lending institution is going to turn down a loan that would make them money. The whole Clinton admin lie about redlining was based on disparate impact. More blacks and latinos were turned down than other groups. But whites were turned down more than Asians. Nobody was being discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity. The lie about redlining led to the sub-prime mortgage loans and the eventual financial collapse in 2007.
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