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I used to work for a government agency that dealt with child welfare cases. When a software developer sold a new case management package to the agency it included various buttons with symbols, such as a button with scales to bring up the legal document scanning module, a button with a simple child face to bring up the child bio info page, etc. Well the child cartoon was of a white boy with blond hair, which didn’t sit well with at least one of the hard-left white lesbians in the office, so the developer was asked back to replace the offending symbol with a dark skin dark hair graphic. Not sure what the taxpayers paid for that one.


14 posted on 12/31/2014 5:55:11 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents and supporters are Traitors.)
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To: Dagnabitt
I used to work for a government agency that dealt with child welfare cases. When a software developer sold a new case management package to the agency it included various buttons with symbols . . . the child cartoon was of a white boy with blond hair, which didn’t sit well with at least one of the hard-left white lesbians in the office, so the developer was asked back to replace the offending symbol with a dark skin dark hair graphic.

Of course, if the application had been delivered with a dark skin/hair graphic, that would have been racist to suggest that recipients of child welfare aid were kids of color.

39 posted on 12/31/2014 6:27:13 AM PST by pettifogger
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