google is racist - and professor is a fucking idiot

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Naturally, a Harvard professor. But hey, it's Harvard, they're mentally handicapped over there, so I'll cut them some slack.
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Did she compare her results to arrest rates? Not making a joke...

This is simple advertising, nothing more. If those names didn't spark clicks, they wouldn't get those ads.

The company even states that in the article, yet somehow this "professor" is overlooking that fact.
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Google is still racist.
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Apparently it only happens with images of that one girl.

Google isn't racist, it just thinks that girl is hella ugly.
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Is "fugly shaming" a thing?
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