#robot slurs

[i-didnt-make-him-for-yew]

The only tin-skinned, copperblood, wireback, gear chucker, rust monkey, bolt muncher, oil drinker, battery burner, toaster, socket breath, data dreg, byte huffer, flickers, circuit lover, spark donkey, grease cricket, cligger, cog sniffer, servo head, chip brain, code skull, shocky, spare parts, chrome dome, oil drip, metal mutt, rust rat fucking CLANKER I love <3

[robcosposts]

A list of “”slurs”” for robots that have been vandalized onto our products

Tin skins

Battery burners

Toaster heads

Toasters in general

Metal muncher

And of course CLANKERS all of these words have been designated as not allowed on Robco items or facilities that’s a

[commie-leatherfemme]

Originally I was laughing at "clanker" content but now I'm considering the implications of so many people being this excited about getting to use a slur that's not gonna hurt anyone because the target doesn't have human emotions, and then thinking about how many of the people targeted by real slurs aren't considered human by large portions of the population, and realizing that a large part of what's driving clanker content is people saying things about hypothetical robots that they want to say to real people but don't because of the social repercussions and nothing else.

ETA: I'm not saying this in support of AI, because AI proliferation is truly terrifying in a lot of ways, I'm saying this because seeing how some folks are running with the joke is so word for word how -ists and -phobes speak that it feels almost a little too natural and that scares me.

[rionarson]

if you ever wondered what a society and it's people looked like and discussed when the N word was used and was accepted by larger white society, and you ever wondered what the backlash to that looked like, we are experiencing this right now. except people call it robot slurs.

now am i saying robot slurs are basically used as other racial slurs against marginalized people? well, it won't really be too long until that's the case.