Does the phrase "It's Black and White" assume that black is wrong?

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Lifer
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I've never seen a black person before. I've seen a lot of brown people though.
 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: kmrivers
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
In some visual binary encodings, a 0 is represented by black, and 1 is represented by white. 1>0 so white is greater than black. OH NOES RACIST BINARY ENCODINGS!
Lol. While funny, people do view things this way. Which I think is pretty sad. :(
It's like when that California city decided that labeling hard drives as "Master" and "Slave" was racist.

ZV
 

cKGunslinger

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: kmrivers
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
In some visual binary encodings, a 0 is represented by black, and 1 is represented by white. 1>0 so white is greater than black. OH NOES RACIST BINARY ENCODINGS!
Lol. While funny, people do view things this way. Which I think is pretty sad. :(
It's like when that California city decided that labeling hard drives as "Master" and "Slave" was racist.

ZV
Well, California is pretty stupid, but I think that was one particular person, not a whole city, that came to that conclusion. :D