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Racist Soap Dispenser?
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All about light reflection apparently
This story is a couple of weeks old. To characterise it a 'racist soap dispenser' trivialises the real story.
Soap dispensers are non-sentient objects, and therefore are unable to be racist.
The real story should concern about techie who developed the interface to the potentiometer, and adjusted it to the balance point based on their skin tone.
Because of this, anything darker doesn't trigger it.
It speaks to what can happen when there is a lack of diversity in tech - silly mistakes like this walk out of the testing environment and into the bright sunlight of ridicule.
Soap dispensers are non-sentient objects, and therefore are unable to be racist.
The real story should concern about techie who developed the interface to the potentiometer, and adjusted it to the balance point based on their skin tone.
Because of this, anything darker doesn't trigger it.
It speaks to what can happen when there is a lack of diversity in tech - silly mistakes like this walk out of the testing environment and into the bright sunlight of ridicule.
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