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Always was a lil sus how eagerly white nerds latched on to "clankers" as a fantasy slur, including blatant parallels to the N-word ("clanka", "clanker with hard r"). White ppl really, really want to be allowed to say it huh
Yet another example of crackers deepest desire being a socially acceptable slur
But it also has to still make people mad, so it can't be too acceptable
white nerds get really violent at the mere suggestion that their might be some unwritten social convention with material consequences for them
It’s from Star Wars lmao
It's bad there, too
From where I'm sitting it seems like the nerds are the ones getting pissed off about the robot-slurs.
Different nerds (maybe). I'm referring to reddit-ass consumer nerds rather than "ai" investment techbro nerds - there is significant overlap though.
Basically fashy star wars dorks love to giggle to themselves while saying "clanker" and doing fantasy racism using analogous language & propaganda to anti-black racism. Just weird ppl
True. I also like pissing off AI bros so I'm torn.
Didn't the Helldivers 2 fanbase or at least the most g*mery part of it do something like this for the robot enemies?
clankers comes from a Star Wars videogame, kinda the same deal
never heard any while I was actually playing the game (I never looked at reddit or whatever)
Yeah, someone linked to the game's
here once (I think the thread was deleted) and unsurprisingly they thought the fake racism with slurs was the funniest thing ever.
Oh fuck TIL.
It's just dumb online nerd shit, I don't know if anybody really cares about "clankers" – it's really just redditors who think drawing the parallel is really funny
I saw a clip of jreg making a lot of those references, some real strong robot racism
Nah. See what we need to do is to harness racism for world peace! Just hear me out!
OK here's what we do. We invent, from whole cloth, an entirely new racial phenotype. Make it one that still is clearly human, but has features that no actual living human being could ever be mistaken for. We create this imaginary racial phenotype. Then we scapegoat THEM for all the world's problems! We create AI videos showing people of this imaginary group committing crimes. We create botnets to slander the group and spread false statistics about their high levels of criminality. We create and spread elaborate conspiracy theories pinning countless historical crimes on their backs. We create a whole backstory and imaginary history from them. Their homeland will be some island continent in the South Pacific that doesn't actually exist. But the headlines will still report on waves of boat people of this imaginary group invading the shorelines of nations the world over.
And we get everyone in on this. People of every race and nationality can vilify this group. All of humanity will be unified in our absolute revulsion for this completely imaginary racial group. If we can't solve racism, we'll just direct all the racism against a group that doesn't actually exist! We'll solve racism...with racism!
/s
They could be blue
tbh I've heard the same shit with cracker (eg. cracka)
yeah i've definitely seen some of that on tiktok, and it kinda gives the vibes of that trend a couple years back where people would just say something racist and then put some old white person emoji and apparently that made it really funny (sometimes people would even just do it unprompted in the comments of a video that happened to have a black person in it)