Everybody Loves Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is truly idiotic.
"Wal-Mart Stores is shutting down the automated system that creates movie recommendations on its shopping website after the system randomly linked a Planet of the Apes DVD to films about African-Americans including Martin Luther King Jr., the company said Thursday."
This may have been a complete coincidence, albeit a very strange and disquieting one...Personally, I'm hesitant to assign "evil genius" status to Wal-Mart just yet. I think that would be giving them too much credit.
"Wal-Mart Stores is shutting down the automated system that creates movie recommendations on its shopping website after the system randomly linked a Planet of the Apes DVD to films about African-Americans including Martin Luther King Jr., the company said Thursday."
This may have been a complete coincidence, albeit a very strange and disquieting one...Personally, I'm hesitant to assign "evil genius" status to Wal-Mart just yet. I think that would be giving them too much credit.
posted by dchan at 9:25 AM
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They've got a klansman webmaster...
You know, I don't think it is at all strange that "Planet of the Apes" was recommended to patrons who showed interest in movies about blacks and the civil rights movement. Planet of the apes, is, after all, an allegorical movie that condemns racism.
As libertarian blogger the agitator has written, "That these idiots autmoatically drew racist inferences after seeing "apes" linked with "black people" says more about the idiots making the inferences than it says about Wal-Mart.
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