Courtesy of content partner Dallas South (who got it from Trey Garrison and David Hopkins) comes the following Photoshopped picture from UT-Arlington's website:
This was obviously a lame attempt at showing diversity among the school's students. What's strange is that if you click on that page, you'll get one of 7-8 different pictures, the the majority of which are semi-natural shots with a wide variety of students. Why Photoshop one picture when you have plenty of others that show diversity?
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Jason Rice Verified
LAME! - what crap!
Like you can't find a pic of a black gal outdoors to fake up!
On the other hand - how'd they find a square foot on campus without 2 Asian males in it?
I think we oughta make her the next Everywhere Girl
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jesus Valadez Verified
lol, who cares about diversity either way.
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
Lovely. Shall we name her Token?
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
::lol, who cares about diversity either way.
Every grant organization on American soil.
Personally I love variety and heterogeneity - but that's rarely how the word is really used.
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
Hilarious -- I knew you'd be all over that, Jason.
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
Thanks for the opportunity to redeem myself.
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
Look at all that diversity. Authentic!
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Jason Rice Verified
Amazingly so
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Alex Bentley Staff
Wow, a Photoshop three-fer -- no one can claim you aren't the master, Jason.
8 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
What is it about randomly inserting a black person to portray diversity?
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
nina_chawla Anonymous
wow! I have no words for that picture. so LAME
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
The sin isn't randomly spicing up a picture to meet standard "hip and inclusive" quotas, because frankly, our nuclear families just aren't quite demographically representative. (I swear, my wife wanted a girl and I wanted an Asian)
I think we all agree the egregious error is a disregard for matched lighting.
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
Agree on the lighting, Jason, but gotta disagree (obviously) on the first part. If you want a picture of a diverse family, take a picture of a diverse family.
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
::take a picture of a diverse family.
No kidding. It's not like they aren't sitting right smack next you on either side or something.
I say that, but frankly, casting calls that indicate "cultural diversity" almost always turn out completely bleached.
What's with that?
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
On another note -- the kid in between the mom and "dad" appears to be in imminent danger of having his head squished. It may look like he's laughing, but he's really screaming in pain. :)
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
nina_chawla Anonymous
does this boil down to getting the "minority" dollar?
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
::minority dollar
Nope - it boils down to "as required by law."
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
momzilla Anonymous
More likely, they're too cheap to pay a photographer and models so use photoshop on stock photographs.
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
It just was not complete without our "Everywhere Else Girl"
4 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
Ya know - it just never gets old.
So Everywhere Else Girl's uncle gets the shaft by M$ for a Polish campaign.
Ironically, the posting on Slashdot turns into a race baiting fiasco in about 8 comments.
Is there a Godwin's Law corollary for "Racist Scumbag" like the "Hitler" one?
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