whut?

[sexyscholar]

photoshopping black people: 11 photos where black people were horribly/ridiculously/offensively 'shopped in or out.


oh. my. GOD.

(and yes, i totally wanted to 'shop a black person's head to ol' benry here, but my gif-making skills are quite poor.)

'diversity, ur doin it wrong' doesn't begin to cover this.

as fmh said, 'if you have to fake diversity, YOU DON'T HAVE IT.'

i think the one that gets me the most is the one for towson university in md. i've been to towson. i know black people who have graduated from towson. are they telling me that they couldn't find at least one reasonably photogenic black person to take a real picture of? urgh.

Comments

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

'if you have to fake diversity, YOU DON'T HAVE IT.'

Amen.

And, seriously, clearly they're going for diversity for diversity's sake, instead of diversity because of the richness of background and learning it provides. /soapbox

Hi.

Maybe I should photoshop a white hand on the gorgeous belly of my icon...

[albadore.livejournal.com]

oh, the stupid awkwardness.

[hobbitofkobol.livejournal.com]

this reminds me of a Scrubs episode where Turk is on the cover picture of the University magazine... twice lol

ugh, and all of these are so obvious

[team-jessie.livejournal.com]

I thought of Scrubs too. I remember the poster that said "Get an EKG... G!" with a picture of Turk on there.

It's somehow not as funny when it really happens.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely trust you on this! That link seems to go to a different top 11 list- I looked at a couple, and it's amazing what's out there. I wonder if he took that list down... Anyway, reality is enough. I love Photoshop, don't get me wrong, but changing realities in whatever context, well, I know it's done all the time, but that doesn't make it right.

(((hugs)))

[happyville.livejournal.com]

SWEET BABY JESUS. D:

[melancthe.livejournal.com]

That's just ... WTF. I was torn between teh lulz and OMG ARE THEY JOKING horror.

[melancthe.livejournal.com]

*follows more links from that page*

The unbelievably insensitive and racist holiday ads one is also WTF. D:

[fauxgateau.livejournal.com]

My brother goes to Towson University and he's black. And there's like, tons of pictures of him on Facebook. Seriously. I love my brother, but he's a self-proclaimed narcissist. Which is much worse than the regular kind.