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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