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February 26, 2019 04:45 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KCERT5PyT2w/ibm-apologizes-for-racial-slurs-on-its-recruitment-webpages
IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages
The Register: IBM has apologized after its recruitment webpages asked applicants whether their ethnicity was, among other options, the racial slurs Yellow and Mulatto. In online application forms for positions within the US tech giant, in among other questions ranging from military veteran status, and eligibility to work in America, a bizarre drop-down menu asked whether jobseekers were Caucasian, Black, or Indigenous, as well as the aforementioned insults. The Register was first alerted to the baffling error on Monday by an engineer who tried to apply for a technical role at IBM earlier this month, and was stunned by the slurs listed for a mandatory input field labeled: "Please state your ethnic group."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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