We basically agree, then.
bitofhope
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You don’t think there’s a lot of homophobia that follows “castigating someone for what they do” format, or you think its a lot less bad according to some siskinded…
Calm the fuck down. I meant it's fine (if rude) to call people mean names for doing bad things. Hyping up AI is bad, so it's alright to call someone a promptfondler for fondling prompt. Calling me a faggot for fucking dudes implies fucking dudes is wrong and something to insult me about.
Doesn't clanker come from some Star Wars thing where they use it like a racial slur against robots, who are basically sapient things with feelings within its fiction? Being based on "cracker" would be alright, but the way I see it used is mostly white people LARPing a time and place when they could say the N-word with impunity.
I'm seeing a lot of people basically going "I hate naggers, these naggers are ruining the neighborhood, go to the back of the bus nagger, let's go lynch that nagger" and thinking that's funny because haha it's not the bad word technically.
I just think we should recognize the difference between castigating someone for what they do versus acting like replicants are real and being racist against them. There's a difference between a plain old pejorative and a Slur proper. Like calling someone "asshole" versus "faggot". I think that's the difference between "promptfondler" and "clanker". The latter is clearly inspired by bigoted slurs.
You articulate well why the "clanker" shit rubs me the wrong way. Disdain for the machines and the way they're being used and sold is perfectly valid, but it would be nice if expressions of that disdain were not modeled after actual bigotry. Calling a computer a piece of junk implies it's merely an object, but calling one a science fiction version of the N-word grants it animacy. Second class citizens are still, in some way, citizens.
The ones that are clearly riffing on real racial slurs are extra cringe. It's OK to say w***back if you're talking about robots, huh? Or is that one specifically for Mexican robots? Is it finally the time that white people get to start practicing how to say the word without the hard r, but only with inanimate objects?
Creator of NaCl publishes something even saltier.
"Am I being detained?" I scream as IETF politely asks me to stop throwing a tantrum over the concept of having moderation policy.
I love it giving the temperature in Europe. Down to a decimal, even.
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Huh, I gotta scroll down all the way to hell to see these comments. I really really don't feel like I should have to defend this stupid platform that seems specifically tailored to kill decentralized alternatives, but so far I've seen mostly healthy disdain for various fascist bullshit, including our Very Good Friends.
Ooh, what a terrible fate! What horrid crimes you must have committed to make our beloved jannies punish you with admin bits! :D
It's even worse than Methods? That should be surprising but isn't.