Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Author:Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

THE NONGORILLA IN THE ROOM

One Sunday in June 2015, Jacky Alciné was sitting in his room watching the BET Awards show, when a photo from a friend popped up in Google Photos. He started playing with the app and saw that all his images had been assigned to new categories: a picture of a jet wing snapped from his seat was tagged with “Airplanes.” A photo of his brother in cap and gown was tagged with “Graduation.” And a selfie of him and a friend mugging for the camera? It was labeled “Gorillas.”

Yep, “Gorillas,” a term so loaded with racist history, so problematic, that Alciné felt frustrated the moment he saw it. “Having computers class you as something that black people have been called for centuries” was upsetting, he told Manoush Zomorodi on the WNYC podcast Note to Self. “You look like an ape, you’ve been classified as a creature. . . . That was the underlying thing that triggered me.” 9

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