Snapchat Faces An Outcry Against 'Whitewashing' Filters (mashable.com)

Last month Snapchat was thrown under the bus for a feature that many found downright racist. The photo-sharing app had added a face-altering filter that made users look like Bob Marley. Less than a month to it, Snapchat is getting blasted over another controversial feature. Several users are reporting about a "whitewash" filter that aims to "beautify" their looks. Mashable reports: Users of the app have noticed that many of the face-altering filters "whitewash." Upset Snapchatters point to the flower crown filter and the beautifying filter, both of which seem to lighten skin and eyes and contour the face to make one's chin and nose appear smaller. Since the debut, and subsequent popularity, of the Coachella-inspired filter, Snapchat users have taken to forums to voice their disproval with the app.

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I realize that today's cool kids believe "reading is for teh mentals", but wholly crap you should try it some time. Races are genetic and biological, just like gender is genetic and biological. These are not "social constructs" no matter what your gender studies professor tried to tell you. They are measurable physical differences in DNA, which if you had bothered to take Math and Biology you would already know.

Stop listening to everything people tell you and question the world for change.

Fuckwit asshat moron shitstain

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Holy fuck this thread is full of retarded mods, otherwise you've got some kind of sockpuppet army.

I don't even know where the fuck to begin with how full of shit you are.

There are genetic, biological differences between peoples, obviously. But they do not divide nearly into the racial categories we, or any other society, think in terms of. Where to draw the lines between which groups of people with what genetic differences is entirely a social matter that doesn't line up at all with where the biology would suggest them; there are greater genetic differences between people within Africa (who would all be called one "race" by our modern construction thereof) than between peoples living on opposite sides of the world outside of Africa.

So if people within India decide to divide up their people into several peoples (castes are inherited, so its your genetic ancestry that matters) and discriminate between them, that is every fucking bit the same exact thing as any kind of racial discrimination, just under a different name. Pull your goddamn head out of your ass and try cracking one of those biology textbooks you preach about for a try.

And I don't know why the fuck you bring gender into this, you neanderthaloid asshat, but you're wrong there too, 100%. The thing you're talking about is sex, not gender. And yes, sex is biological, but not entirely genetic; there are biological females with XY chromosomes and androgen insensitivity that makes them develop as females nevertheless; and in many other ways, it doesn't divide at neatly into the social categories that you want it to, fuckwit, and shitstains like you are the ones imposing artificial social constructs in bald ignorance of biological fact. Again, read a fucking book yourself. And you question the world instead of swallowing whatever comforting lies the people you grew up with told you.

And what the fuck does a math class have to do with any of this, you cuntfaced cockhole?