Racial Fail

[andrewducker]

Compare these two Microsoft pages:
Polish
American

Oh dear.

Thanks to henriksdal for that one.

Comments

[accordingly.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha what the fucking fuck?

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

VERY amusing, and worthy of Photoshop Disasters.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Heh. Now if it was a completely different shot, I might understand, but that's terrible.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

My goodness!

That Polish fellow...

...he has...

black hands!

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend noticed that. I didn't. Definitely a WTF! moment.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

That makes my head hurt.

[guybles.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind, but they didn't even change the colour of his hand.

Mind, you, I can see why Microsoft might be ashamed of including someone using a MacBook in their publicity shots...

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my thought was he got the heave-ho for being a Mac user. A possible (if unlikely) charitable explanation is that an order to shop out the Mac got garbled into an order to shop out the black guy. Badly.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Silly, Andy, don't you know there's no such thing as blacks in Poland?

The cheesy grin in the spliced head totally sells it, tho. :)

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_in_Poland

[meico.livejournal.com]

That is utterly bizarre... In a country of approximately 38,000,000 there are only 4,500 black citizens?!

Is there any other country in the world with such a miniscule ratio?

[andrewducker]

Doesn't surprise me that much - in countries without a history of immigration or African colonies, why would there be many people of African descent there?

Also, don't forget that Poland was behind the Iron Curtain, making immigration to there pretty much impossible between the start of WWII and 1990.

It's probably the lowest ratio in the world though - I can't think of anywhere further away :->

[redshira.livejournal.com]

They've changed it; black dude is now in both photos. TOO LATE, Microsoft! You still fail.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Anyone got a screenshot? I missed it.

[andrewducker]

http://pokazywarka.pl/msmurzyn/

[cdave]

That's just terrible.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Even that doesn't seem to be working now. Do you have another?

[andrewducker]

Works for me. But the BBC have a screencap:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221896.stm

Click on the image to enlarge it.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Microsoft has formally apologized.