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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.
stuff that doesn't matter
really??? if you dont like a filter.... dont use it!!! What is so complicated here?
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
No one cares. This affects nobody in a substantial way. It's just a bunch of whiny SJWs.
Lately it seems there are entirely too many people with entirely too much free time to sit around being offended by the most insignificant and banal shit. Don't these people work, or have anything else better to do with their time?
Hey everybody it's Social Justice Wednesday!
Reply to this thread if you genuinely give a fuck about Snapchat's filters and believe this topic belongs on Slashdot.
There is nothing racist about this at all. The people who are prone to things such as racism are the very same people who equate this to racism using the same fallacies and poor thinking that themselves gave rise and continue to give rise to real racism. You have to be careful with sensitivity. There's being insensitive and being too sensitive. These whiners fall into the latter category. The best way to deal with them is to ignore them and get on with their lives. As everyone else has the common sense to say, if they don't like this feature, they don't have to use it.
True, but then again, so is learning how to post your comment under the right story.
It's not that there's a brightness filter, but that the "light" side is labeled "beautiful" and the other side is "dirty Nigger". The slider is fine. The labels are overtly racist.
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From TFA:
"The whitewashing snapchat filters are making me internalise Eurocentric beauty standards(I've avoided doing this until now)&it needs to STOP"
Please Lord, let me never meet this person.
-Styopa
no...that wasnt racist either. can we just stop with the labeling of everything as racist? it has literally made the word useless
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Who knew he was a developer?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
I looked at all the side-by-side comparisons I could find on that page and to me it looks like simple color correction. People were taking a bunch of dark photos and the filter corrected them to be medium lightness. It didn't lighten their skin; it lightened the entire photo which their skin is part of. Look at the first example, she has dark hair which is completely washed-out black in the original, with no detail visible, and then in the filtered version you can see some more detail because they lightened the colors.
I'd like to see someone take a photo, do color correction first, then run it through this filter. Does it pick out brown skin tones and turn them whiter? I doubt it but if so then that might be a little bit offensive.
Let us remove all the emotional crap about beauty "standards" and replace them with what they are. Biological triggers for reproduction. Symmetric features, healthy body shape, healthy hair, healthy smell, and yes healthy skin (1) are all measures we have evolved with to find mates we will most likely succeed in having healthy children with.
1. Healthy skin is not just color, though it is much easier to see poor health on lighter skin. Oily skin, acne, blotchy skin, ringworm, ticks, etc... etc... are all signs of unhealthy skin. Claiming color is the only factor ignores reality, and has become a false narrative for these SJW (Cultural Marxist) movements.
Claiming we should ignore a person's health when choosing a mate is akin to saying the thing we mate with makes no difference, and the gender makes no difference, and the age makes no difference (who needs puberty right SJWs?) Interestingly the same thing these people tell you does not matter when it comes to using private spaces like rest rooms.
If you want to build a bullshit narrative to promote your communist beliefs at least have the audacity to use facts to do so.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Rather than:
"I'm offended by this! So I just won't use it."
People are all...
"I'm offended by this! IT MUST BE BANNED!"
If this keeps catching on, it'll be like Chinese censorship in no time.
Fuck you. Your "feels" don't fucking matter in the real world.
Please learn this as quickly as possible so you can stop being a festering boil on the ass of society and can start contributing something to humanity other than childish bitching and moaning (we're more than full up on that).
You're not a victim (you're just an every-day asshole). So stop trying to seize victimhood as a status symbol.
If you don't, you're going to be mocked, mercilessly, for the rest of your existence.
(Oh, and did we mention that we sell razors? Down the road, not across the tracks!)
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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?
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