SketchFactor racist app?

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  1. Jim Rockford

    Jim Rockford Banned

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    http://valleywag.gawker.com/smiling-young-white-people-make-app-for-avoiding-black-1617775138

    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...

    I have posted links to crime rates and gun crime by neighborhood breakdown of cities before. That research takes a lot of time and effort to map what is very closely correlated into one smooth app. Racist, maybe, but useful.
     
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    'Sketchy' areas are those areas where cultural morays are in decline and decay.
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Also known as "The where to buy your drugs" app.
     

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