http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/ Switched Comments for http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 2:54PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 9:59PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/We don't have black people in Poland.
Do you think they have white people on ads in let's say India?
This is demographics, not racism.]]>Aug 26th 2009 10:43PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 26th 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Being Polish, I take issue with the characterization of Poland as "racially homogeneous". To this day, there are Jews and Gypsies as well as Africans and Asians living and intermarrying in Poland.
I agree with Barbara above about Europeans being much more racially tolerant. I can recall attending a medical conference in Erlangen (outside of Nuremberg) in 1998 and seeing more interracial couples than I have ever seen in large U.S. cities.]]>Aug 26th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/
Do you really think Microsoft did a racially motivated decision to "punish" a black person, and get this type PR on the blogs? Do you ...]]>Aug 27th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Sep 3rd 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/This, maybe should be a good opportunity foreign companies with operations in Poland to bring in more racially diverse senior management, at least we will start seeing real changes on the ground as regarding perception]]>Aug 27th 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 27th 2009 1:15AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 27th 2009 1:52AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 27th 2009 2:00AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/
Just go back to watching Star Trek and let us in the real world pay your way through life...]]>Aug 27th 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 27th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 27th 2009 3:26AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/http://www.switched.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-apologizes-for-offensive-and-botched-photoshop-job/Aug 27th 2009 4:16AM