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I feel like it started as a joke, but now people are just using it as a stand-in for racial slurs against Black and brown people, and it's honestly sickening. L

I feel like it started as a joke, but now people are just using it as a stand-in for racial slurs against Black and brown people, and it's honestly sickening. Like TikToks of people making classically racist jokes about Black people but changing it to "clanker" as a workaround.

dcminter 1y ago
Sadly there are no technological solutions to humans being arseholes to each other.
- lazide 1y ago
  Well, I mean, we did invent Nuclear Weapons…. That’s a type of technical solution!
  - dcminter 1y ago
    You know I nearly added that caveat, but I figured it counted as more being arseholes rather than a solution per se despite the long-term reduction.
  - Cthulhu_ 1y ago
    Don't tell Skynet that!
esseph 1y ago
It's also used in RL when talking about Waymo or food delivery robots, or when talking about the automaton faction in Helldivers 2.
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  Helldivers is excessively/satirically facist and xenophobic though, I mean uh, managed democracy, rah rah!
  - esseph 1y ago
    It's very fun in that way
Gracana 1y ago
Yeah, the whole "let's come up with a slur for <blank>" thing entices people to build their fictional racism on real racism, and it just devolves from there. I saw "wirebacks" thrown around recently, among others.
axus 1y ago
I suppose this is similar to the debate over artificial rape porn. There are no victims, but we don't like the people on the other side so the speech itself becomes a problem.
- thrance 1y ago
  You're an idiot if you truly think that's the issue with "artificial rape". Go inform yourself instead of reflexively defending your in-group.
- devnullbrain 1y ago
  >We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut and >If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. >A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. - Roald Dahl
marknutter 1y ago
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- Conscat 1y ago
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  - salawat 1y ago
    Now if only we could get them to stop doing it for corporations or psychopathic execs.
flykespice 1y ago
Literally, look at this skit that makes parallel to 1950s racism with "clankers": https://nitter.net/yumecipher/status/1962475876609613920 https://nitter.net/yumecipher/status/1962475876609613920
lagniappe 1y ago
Why do people so badly want everything to be about race?
- lupusreal 1y ago
  Fragility.
- flykespice 1y ago
  Perhaps because it's a fictional slur that is cleary a play on the n-word, a real racist slur?
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  - progbits 1y ago
    What's the connection between those two words? You know, aside the -er ending like in say teacher.
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    - flykespice 1y ago
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      - wedn3sday 1y ago
        No reason to be uncivil. It's a bit of a stretch to say that "clanker" is related to race in any way. Lots of slurs have nothing to do with race, you're projecting your own bias and prejudices as some sort of universal linguistic truth. In highschool band the percussionists called the wind section "honkers," were they making some vailed n-word allusion? No, it was silly and the wind section were all blowhards so we made fun of them with a little in-group slur.
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dcminter 1y ago

Sadly there are no technological solutions to humans being arseholes to each other.

lazide 1y ago
Well, I mean, we did invent Nuclear Weapons…. That’s a type of technical solution!
- dcminter 1y ago
  You know I nearly added that caveat, but I figured it counted as more being arseholes rather than a solution per se despite the long-term reduction.
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  Don't tell Skynet that!

esseph 1y ago

It's also used in RL when talking about Waymo or food delivery robots, or when talking about the automaton faction in Helldivers 2.

Cthulhu_ 1y ago
Helldivers is excessively/satirically facist and xenophobic though, I mean uh, managed democracy, rah rah!
- esseph 1y ago
  It's very fun in that way

Gracana 1y ago

Yeah, the whole "let's come up with a slur for <blank>" thing entices people to build their fictional racism on real racism, and it just devolves from there. I saw "wirebacks" thrown around recently, among others.

axus 1y ago

I suppose this is similar to the debate over artificial rape porn. There are no victims, but we don't like the people on the other side so the speech itself becomes a problem.

thrance 1y ago
You're an idiot if you truly think that's the issue with "artificial rape". Go inform yourself instead of reflexively defending your in-group.
devnullbrain 1y ago
>We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut and >If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. >A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. - Roald Dahl

marknutter 1y ago

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Conscat 1y ago
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- salawat 1y ago
  Now if only we could get them to stop doing it for corporations or psychopathic execs.

flykespice 1y ago

Literally, look at this skit that makes parallel to 1950s racism with "clankers": https://nitter.net/yumecipher/status/1962475876609613920 https://nitter.net/yumecipher/status/1962475876609613920

lagniappe 1y ago

Why do people so badly want everything to be about race?

lupusreal 1y ago
Fragility.
flykespice 1y ago
Perhaps because it's a fictional slur that is cleary a play on the n-word, a real racist slur?
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- progbits 1y ago
  What's the connection between those two words? You know, aside the -er ending like in say teacher.
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
  - flykespice 1y ago
    [flagged]
    - wedn3sday 1y ago
      No reason to be uncivil. It's a bit of a stretch to say that "clanker" is related to race in any way. Lots of slurs have nothing to do with race, you're projecting your own bias and prejudices as some sort of universal linguistic truth. In highschool band the percussionists called the wind section "honkers," were they making some vailed n-word allusion? No, it was silly and the wind section were all blowhards so we made fun of them with a little in-group slur.
      - deleted 1y ago