This is a morally repugnant and disgusting device. Think of the implications of this device: an entire age group of people, both good and bad, ambitious and aimless, hardworking and lazy, are, irrespective of who they are, and entirely based on their age, are being treated like animals or pests to be driven away. Not to mention it apparently doesn't work very well according to the summary.
I can only wonder if technology had advanced in our society a little faster than our morality did if hucksters would have been marketing "Negro Repellent Devices" to the discriminating and gullible bastards of an earlier era.
Shameful.
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This is a morally repugnant and disgusting device. Think of the implications of this device: an entire age group of people, both good and bad, ambitious and aimless, hardworking and lazy, are, irrespective of who they are, and entirely based on their age, are being treated like animals or pests to be driven away. Not to mention it apparently doesn't work very well according to the summary. I can only wonder if technology had advanced in our society a little faster than our morality did if hucksters would have been marketing "Negro Repellent Devices" to the discriminating and gullible bastards of an earlier era. Shameful.
I'd actually that while the text ads had something to do with it, the massive growth in pop-up/under blockers made a large difference as well.
He might ADD, too.