People love using thinly veiled existing racist/homophobic slurs against AI. “Tinskin”, “wireback”, “cogsucker”, “clanker.”
Yes, I know that “clanker” was in Star Wars. That’s not what made it so popular, and the majority of people using it today likely never saw it there. People also use “clanka” and leave comments about using “the hard r.”
We all know what you’re talking about. You know when you’re typing it out. It’s not alright.
There are people places like Lemmy who spent their lives being called or watching their families be called the terms people are so lightly tossing about today. Do you really think that doesn’t bother any of them?
It seems like so many people were just eagerly waiting for something they felt it was socially acceptable to hurl slurs and abuse at, and happily reached for terms just like the ones they already knew.
Some kids at my niece’s school now think it’s cute to stare at black kids and talk loudly about how much they hate “clankas” making it very clear what they mean by it.
It’s one thing to dislike AI, how it’s been developed, and the intent of replacing human jobs. To insult AI and the people behind it.
It’s something completely different to jump in with constant streams of thinly veiled existing slurs that can and do hurt real people.
As much as I loathe the orange man, I would never go online with a username such as yours. Hell, even if it was 100% confirmed he did such things, I still have a little better class than that.
Such things aren’t proven fact yet, unless you got all the files and evidence on it, so as much as I believe it’s probably true, without proper evidence, it’s still currently a slur.
Your username might as well be the pot calling the kettle black…
What the fuck? Did you just try to call me a child rapist? That’s your response to someone not liking slurs? And you say you have class? I’m done. You’re not a human worth talking to.
Bruh, get the fuck over yourself, I wasn’t saying any such thing. I’m saying that if it’s okay for you to insult the fucking president, well I got a right to insult Artificial Intelligence.
And the fact that I sometimes call AI a clanker should in no way upset you, but it does, welp, that makes you a thinskin.
It’s all just words anyways, get over it.