First and foremost, the versions of this camera I have seen are finicky or essentially non-functional for people of any skin color, although it did seem to work ok in the video, so maybe it's just me.
For this to have been racist on HP's part there had to have been a decision at some point that people of color were not an important demographic to market to. I'm not saying that didn't happen, but my experience with the brand leads me to believe that their product simply doesn't work well.
If there was no race-based decision, if HP simply made a shoddy product, that (by definition) isn't racism, it's incompetence. If it simply never occured to HP's engineers that the camera wouldn't work properly with someone who has a dark complexion and if they tested the camera with white people because they didn't think complexion would matter, that isn't racism.
Bigotry should not be tolerated, but overplaying the race card doesn't help anyone, it makes people jaded and makes it harder for people with legitimate grievances to be heard.
That being said, complain to HP, if this was deliberate they need to know racism will not be tolerated, if it wasn't they need to know that consumers don't want products that don't work as advertised.
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For this to have been racist on HP's part there had to have been a decision at some point that people of color were not an important demographic to market to. I'm not saying that didn't happen, but my experience with the brand leads me to believe that their product simply doesn't work well.
If there was no race-based decision, if HP simply made a shoddy product, that (by definition) isn't racism, it's incompetence. If it simply never occured to HP's engineers that the camera wouldn't work properly with someone who has a dark complexion and if they tested the camera with white people because they didn't think complexion would matter, that isn't racism.
Bigotry should not be tolerated, but overplaying the race card doesn't help anyone, it makes people jaded and makes it harder for people with legitimate grievances to be heard.
That being said, complain to HP, if this was deliberate they need to know racism will not be tolerated, if it wasn't they need to know that consumers don't want products that don't work as advertised.