• Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    The hogs collectively finally picked up that humanoid robots in science fiction is actually an analog for slavery during the clanker spree and as hogs tend to do they immediately started using clanker as a slur against black people and reinterpreted the whole anti-AI robot phase and phrase as outright anti-black racism.

    thinly veiled hog racism

    Which is why there started to be “memes” about whipping your field clankers to work harder, fucking with your house clankers for not cleaning the kitchen fast enough, trying to fit in with the future AI overlords by using the soft clanka instead of the hard R clanker, etc. Like sure it started generally innocent and was a whole star wars bit about the Droid army in the clone wars shows, but the swine threw it in the mud and wallowed in it.