Twitter outrage over image search results of black and white teens is misdirected. We must address the prejudice that feeds such negative portrayalsThis week Twitter user Kabir Alli posted a video of him carrying out two specific searches on Google. The search for “three white teenagers” produced smiling and happy generic images of white teenagers,while the search for “three black teenagers” produced some generic happy images too – alongside far too many mug shots and what could be perceived as negative images of black teenagers. The video of the search was establish up without any explanation, and people predictably reacted emotively; it’s been shared more than 60000 times. It brought back an internet meme I debunked back in March this year, and in which,on the basis of such search results, people on social media called Google “racist”. Related: 'Three black teenagers': anger as Google image search shows police mugshots YOOOOOO gape AT THIS pic.twitter.com/uY1JysFm8wContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com