The Null Device
Hong Kong-based educational toy manufacturer V-Tech has had to change the
programming of a talking keyboard toy, after some customers feared it could
be teaching racism. The old toy said "A is for Ape, B is for Black, C is
for Crack", a sequence V-Tech say was chosen for phonetic blends and rhyming
qualities. V-Tech are offering to replace any of the 305,000 old Alphabert
toys with new, non-racist models. (Wonder whether, now that this has made
the news, white-supremacist rednecks will start bidding on eBay for the old
ones to instruct their kids.) (via Leviathan)
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