Posts Tagged: racial

NASCAR driver fired after using a racial slur while streaming

The switch from real-life racing to esports has been increasingly popular with viewers — NBC reports that last weekend’s iRacing Indycar Challenge at MIS brought in 25 percent more viewers than the first event — but slightly tricky for racers. Not be…
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‘Operation GroupMe’ was meant to fight shoplifting, enables racial profiling instead

The Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Georgetown has had a shoplifting problem lately, so local citizens turned to group-messaging app GroupMe for help. What they got instead was widespread racial profiling.

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