Don't Do This!

Some people make you wonder...

The head teacher of Sandhurst Junior School in south London apologized in October because a professional photographer had arranged, for his own convenience, an unfortunate group photo of the school's 100-plus students. The photographer, trying to keep from having to re-set his reflector screens, lined up the kids from the lightest-skinned on the left, gradually over to the darkest-skinned on the right. Said the head teacher, "We can see that this was an error of judgment." [Daily Mail (London), 10-23-07]

Well, Duh!!!

Way too funny. I can see how it would have helped from a tech level but boy did they miss out on the bigger picture.

Hmm… for color it’s insensitive but for height, nothing. I have been discriminated my whole life because I’m tall. Just once I wanted to sit in the front row. END ALL DESCRIMINATION NOW!!!

eeekkk!!!!!

gjl711 wrote in post #4432355
Hmm… for color it’s insensitive but for height, nothing. I have been discriminated my whole life because I’m tall. Just once I wanted to sit in the front row. END ALL DESCRIMINATION NOW!!!

I, too, am tall. I am so sick of changing peoples' light bulbs just because I don't need a chair to do it.

Then again, if we were to sit in the front row, what would happen to the semi-midget behind us?

And I agree. We should boycott all those who discriminate, except that doing so would be discrimination.

20droger wrote in post #4432387
I, too, am tall. I am so sick of changing peoples' light bulbs just because I don't need a chair to do it.

Then again, if we were to sit in the front row, what would happen to the semi-midget behind us?

And I agree. We should boycott all those who discriminate, except that doing so would be discrimination.

I have snow on my dish, effecting my satellite reception would please clean the snow off the dish for me.

Save me getting out the ladder

20droger wrote in post #4432387
I, too, am tall. I am so sick of changing peoples' light bulbs just because I don't need a chair to do it.....

Or being the base of a human pyramid. I don’t want to be the base any more. I want to be at the top. I want to be flipped up in the air as I twirl spectacularly then plummet to earth squishing those beneath me.

In group shots you can arrange people by gender, you can arrange them by height, you can arrange them by age, but you can't arrange them by skin tone.

Curtis N wrote in post #4432476
In group shots you can arrange people by gender, you can arrange them by height, you can arrange them by age, but you can't arrange them by skin tone.

Maybe because of the historical context?

HAHA, that is funny as hell. I think it would make a cool picture.

well i am not too tall or too short, but my last name starts with a T so i was always at the end of the line, or the back of the class! bah discriminating against my family name! (which is about as common as any name out there - Thomas)

i just wonder what that guy was thinking. did he not think people would notice?

I don't get it. Are they upset because the person on the left gets top billing?

I don't see the problem, Lightest on the left Reflector on the right Combined with the physics of light fall of...You get a nice even exposure with no skin tone issues!

Besides this would eliminate any potential for racial undertones...They all come out a nice lilly white!

Ya know, I have been thinking about this since yesterday and am coming up short. Where exactly did he screw up? What toes were stepped on? Is there some racial thing I am just plainly missing? Is being on the one end of the color spectrum perceived as bad and being on the other as good? And if so, which is the bad end, left or right? Is it that he noticed that people have different skin color in the first place? Is the alignment somehow assigning negative attributes to someone or positive ones to others?

I’m like Izak, I would love to see the pic and think it may be a powerful one as it clearly should show the range of skin tone in this one school. But other than shading, where is the negative aspect of the alignment?

Yikes.

Racism, and people's struggle to avoid it, amazes me! True racism is nasty and un-needed, but when people refuse to acknowledge that other people have different coloured skin from them, it starts to get ridiculous.