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The intention to harm or exclude may guide some technical design decisions. Yet even when they do, these motivations often stand in tension with aims framed more benevolently. Even police robots who can use lethal force while protecting officers from harm are clothed in the rhetoric of public safety.35 This is why we must separate “intentionality” from its strictly negative connotation in the context of racist practices, and examine how aiming to “do good” can very well coexist with forms of malice and neglect.36 In fact a do-gooding ethos often serves as a moral cover for harmful decisions. Still, the view that ill intent is always a feature of racism is common: “No one at Google giggled while intentionally programming its software to mislabel black people.”37 Here McWhorter is referring to photo-tagging software that classified dark-skinned users as “gorillas.” Having discovered no bogeyman behind the screen, he dismisses the idea of “racist technology” because that implies “designers and the people who hire them are therefore ‘racists.’” But this expectation of individual intent to harm as evidence of racism is one that scholars of race have long rejected.38

The house is two floors, plus an attic that makes up the pointy triangle on the top of their house, which is where Kerry’s room is. It took some convincing for her parents to let her move up here and make the space her own, but now it looks like it’s always been hers. Her pink-and-white bed is in the middle of the room, on top of a floral rug. She has two bright beanbags in each corner of the small room, placed there specifically for me and Taylor. The room’s two slanted walls are covered with different posters and photos of the actors Kerry is inspired by, including her namesake Kerry Washington, plus motivational quotes about acting and art.