TechnologyEnglish · 7 months ago

'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

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'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

TechnologyEnglish · 7 months ago

An in-universe 'Star Wars' term has bled into real life.

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Slur requires a group of disparaged people to whom the slur is targeted. Beep-boops with no intelligence ain’t fucking people.

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