The author of this blog post believes that we should remain ignorant of dangerous places to walk or even drive in a big city - that possessing such knowledge makes you a racist because it proves you are unwilling to to risk life and limb to prove that minority neighborhoods aren't so bad. Sam BIddle thinks that the "smiling white people" who created an app that identifies "sketchy" nieghborhoods in cities hate black people: Is there any way to keep white people from using computers, before this whole planet is ruined? I ask because the two enterprising white entrepreneurs above just made yet another app for avoiding non-white areas of your town—and it's really taking off! Crain's reports on SketchFactor, a racist app made for avoiding "sketchy" neighborhoods, which is the term young white people use to describe places where they don't feel safe because they watched all five seasons of The Wire: SketchFactor, the...(Read Full Post)