Andrew Ducker (andrewducker) wrote,
Andrew Ducker
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Recapping on yesterday while my unit tests run

The BBC picked up on the Microsoft story from yesterday



What really gets me is the complete lack of thought. If they didn't want to have a black person in a Polish advert (for whatever reason) then why not reshoot the bloody advert? Someone didn't realise that nowadays you _cannot_ get away with this kind of thing...

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