all racists now thank Google for information how to avoid black businesses
they provide even Yellow stars for you to rate them
Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
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Re: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
#92Well, they already have the yellow star icon next to black owned, women-led icons, for the next step in their journey.
Re: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's acceptable to elevate Black people to be on the same level as other races in America as opposed to disadvantaged. I actually think Black America is owed a lot more than what Google is doing here after centuries of legalized racism and being shut out of building wealth, but that's the US government that owes them.
"Other races" don't get special labels on their businesses. Putting tags like "Women Owned" de-legitimizes the owner. It makes women owned business seem stigmatized, as if it's unusual or especially notable. It strips them of their dignity.
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Re: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
#94the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
* Any tool that allows to discriminate "for" allows to discriminate "against"
* What is the rational to be able to add "black-owned", but not "mexican-owned" or anything else, are mexicans not victims of discriminations ?
* What is the end game ? Black people go to black-owned businesses, white people go to white-owned businesses ? this kind of anti-racism looks a little bit like segregation to me.
I'm not against any positive actions, but this one seems dangerous and could have unwanted indirect impacts
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#95In contrast to most of the comments here, I like this. Earlier this year, I watched the first episode of Trigger Warning with Killer Mike (Netflix). In this episode he tried to spend a few days putting money only into black-owned businesses... It was a hard experience for him, and since then I have tried to be conscious of where my money goes, and if I have the option of selecting a black owned business intend to do…
Friendly reminder: Not everything on TV(Netflix) is true.
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#96Re: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
#97Is this a good thing? Why should I care about the skin color of the owner of a restaurant or business I'm thinking of going to?
My personal reason for caring: Without saying that white-owned businesses have it easy (no one has it easy these days), I believe that black-owned businesses face additional, unique challenges that white-owned businesses don’t. Some of those challenges are new (eg communities of color being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19) and others have been around for much longer (ranging from black communities being histo…
> someone shouldn’t have to work 10%, 20%, or 100% harder to achieve the same outcomes
This will never stop happening, no matter how hard you try. Do you seriously believe that someone with 30 years of experience should work as hard as someone who is doing it for the first time ? That just doesn't make sense.
Re: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
#98I’m fully in support of surfacing attributes about groups who are systemically discriminated against (African American, women, LGBTQ, etc.). I also appreciate knowing that some business is local, supporting the poor and those not privileged to have a decent education, the disabled, etc. But considering how most of the world has turned strongly and violently right wing in the last few years, I’m also concerned about t…
The right wing tendency is a reactionary response to this kind of activism.
A few percent of people believe themselves to be superior due to race. Some people will always be like that but it was certainly a less and less prominent political orientation.
But the conquest for more state control, against freedom of expression, against open dialogue put more and more people against activists. I don't think there is anything more to it and overall pretty simple.
There are people making millions with esoteric bias training which are basically just bullshit jobs that certainly don't improve understanding. This industry needs a constant supply of racism.
Re: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
#99The next logical step of course is to start bumping up "disadvantaged" listings in search rankings.
Then we start wondering why everybody has stopped using the app all of a sudden.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s a glib interpretation. And you’re pushing the same anti- affirmative action viewpoint that has maintained racial inequities.
Affirmative action as currently implemented based primarily on race is just as bad, shifting the inequality of opportunity at best. White people of low socioeconomic status are disadvantaged while people of color with high socioeconomic status unfairly benefit. The idea of affirmative action and “anti-racist” policies are fundamentally fine, but it’s almost completely socially unacceptable to disagree with the popula…
Plus it can pit those low income groups against each other in favor of self-degrading white people in higher academia that do indeed seem to be there without too much merit.