The Camera Doesn't Lie

It just refuses to recognize Asians and African Americans.

I can just imagine Rush Limbaugh asking, "I wonder if the same applies to blacks and store security cameras? If so, then maybe Wal-Mart had better hire Blackwater to guard against looting."

In an interesting corollary, there's also this article in Time about another "racist" camera that for some reason doesn't factor in racial diversity in its biometrics.

The downside to technology is that the cleverer we get, the more sophisticated the technology, the easier it is to create a SNAFU, such as when this right wing publication weeded out the word "gay" and replaced it with the more pejorative "homosexual":


The right wing is also fond of using anti gay cameras that turn scenes such as this


into this.


Think I'm kidding? Remember this blast from the past?