Pseudo-intellectual knee-jerk liberalism results in stupidity

You want proof?  The left side of the political aisle is agog at something they discovered in Wal-Mart’s database.

The problem is that when one searched on a certain MLK bio or the film Dorothy Dandridge or the box set for Planet of the Apes, the other items were recommended.  The MLK stuff was bloviated over at Kos’, but I don’t link that cesspool.  You’ll have to trust me.  So what does this mean?

OH MY GOD CLEARLY WAL-MART IS SAYING BLACK PEOPLE ARE ALL MONKEYS.

Or…

All three items have the same theme: racism.  All three items are in fact relevant to one another.  If one was interested in seeing something about MLK’s work, one might also enjoy Dorothy Dandridge.  Any moron who doesn’t know that racism is the central premise behind Planet of the Apes deserves to get punched in the head.

This is pseudo-hippy faux outrage.  They want to get all worked up into a tizzy and prove how evil Wal-Mart is.  It’s complete and utter bullshit.  To a computer, those three things all have the same theme; racism.  It makes perfect reasonable sense that they’d be grouped as recommendations.  It’s not like Wal-Mart had a board meeting to declare all black people monkeys. 

In fact...who are the real racists here?  The computer algorithm that correctly identified all these items as having a central theme of racism, or the outraged lefties who immediately connected Dorothy Dandridge and MLK to apes?

It’s little things like this that show me that the “reality-based community” is anything but.

Wal-Mart is blaming this on a “random” glitch.  I doubt very much that it was random.  I think the computer program did exactly what it was supposed to do: recognized that these films dealt with racism and physical abuse (all three items in the linked article have both as thematic elements).  Wal-Mart should have told these people to frig off.  My corporate response would have been “We’re sorry you immediately connected media about African-Americans to apes, but the fact is our recommendations algorithm correctly identified racism as the central theme to all the items you are complaining about, with physical abuse as a sub-theme.  It is our sincere belief that you’re an idiot, and you should immediately kiss our collective asses.  Thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.”

Posted by JimK at 09:54 AM on January 06, 2006
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