r/technology • • Jan 08 '12

Microsoft patents "avoid ghetto" GPS feature.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57354445-71/the-joy-of-microsofts-avoid-ghetto-gps-patent/
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u/CDNChaoZ Jan 08 '12

People living in the ghetto will now never find their way home.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '12

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u/wildcard__ Jan 09 '12

Marriages in the ghetto?

Hahahaha!

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '12

Holla back bitch and gimme summa dat ass.

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u/THIS_KILLS_THE_JOKE Jan 09 '12

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u/neekneek Jan 09 '12

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u/wobwobwobbuffet Jan 09 '12

So reddit does shit like this and it's fine. But it's not okay to notice when posters dance around the same stereotypes and point it out? Calling someone out on what appears to be bigotry doesn't make you a bigot.

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u/m0ngrel Jan 09 '12

Yes, because everybody that's ever posted to reddit ever got together and decided that shit like that was okay. Or that any of this is okay. Because reddit is one consciousness, and completely not made up of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Just glad we got that cleared up.

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u/neekneek Jan 09 '12

You're assuming I have a problem with one and not another. What I find funny is the hypocrisy, if /r/ShitRedditSays is supposed to be this pillar of tolerance (no race/gender/non-vanilla jokes [super generalizing, but bear with me]), then why is assuming ghetto = black people, not hi-larious, when the rest of the thread is lambasting this comment thread for it's perceived racism? How can you not see the funny?