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.
we can’t remove all insults from language. almost everything has something it dates back to and also depending on ones background some things are going to be funny. I don’t see a point in time where hearing about some british guy smoking a fag does not make me giggle.
The backgrounds where hearing racist terms are funny would be racist backgrounds.
We clearly do remove some words. I can type that I grew up being called a removed and this system automatically removes the word. If a word is that bad it needs automatically scoured from the platform entirely then maybe using a small variation on it that could and in many cases does cause harm to the same people isn’t the best thing to do.
There’s a reason the biggest words used against AI are slight variation on slurs used against humans. That reason might be that a lot of people have been too lazy to come up with a new word without horrible historic baggage, and it might be because a whole lot of people just wish they could be using the racist slurs themselves.
Seems like maybe it would be worth the effort to come up with something new instead of talking about your clankas.
I have never seen a word removed and im not willing to take your word for it honestly. you could be writing removed. honestly based on the words from your OP I doubt I would even know what they are. you know its like the confederate flag. I get it. Both the history and the people who have since used it as a symbol. sto at one point though did a confederate flag paintjob you could get for a racecar type ship that was a call back to the general lee. I mean at that point its like you know I get people get a giddy little kick with their dukes of hazard ship. similarly its really annoying that the nazi symbol is a reversed hindu symbol that without the nazis is kinda cool.
You know what word clanker and clanka are playing on. Go ahead and type it in a comment and see what happens. I can’t even say it’s a thin veil on removed because that word is so bad you can’t even type it here. Hint: It starts with N and ends with r.
The rest of your post just sounds like support for racism symbols, but you do you.
ok so clanker and clanka is apparently equivalent to a derogatory word used in the us for black people if I have you right. sounds to me like its a us centric thing because until you explained it here. if I understand you correctly. I had no idea it was equivalent. I know its a british insult like bugger which has no real meaning for someone in the us except if they heard it enough from british sources. tosser really is not a thing here to but its not hard to decipher especially if made with a hand gesture. heck I only know these so well because relative to the average us person im somewhat of an anglophile (not really I just like some bbc stuff). Does the one g make a difference? Can you talk about the country Niger?
Looks like you can. You can type Niger and nigga but not removed.
Yeah, all of the other slurs against AI that I listed are thinly veiled racial and homophobic slurs used massively in the US. An existing slur used against people for generations is the root of every one of them.
none of them are used massively in the us. I have never heard of any of them before nor can I think of a variation that would be. I mean cogsucker would be cocksucker but that is a general slur not specifically for gay men. its like I said you would have to get rid of all sorts of insults because that one is very very common. then wireback could be wetback but that is against immigrants from mexico although is likely used for anyone who seems like they could be mexican so like everything south of america. It is not that high on the slur level though given its descriptive of wading through water to cross the border. yeah and clanker and tinskin I only know the one from you and the other I can’t figure out if it is something here.
It sounds more like you’ve been around slurs and never paused to think about them. Why do you think “cocksucker” could be used as a slur in the first place? It’s calling someone gay. Which is an insult, because gay = bad. It’s an extremely offensive term.
So is wetback. So are all of them. You not having experience having them hurled at you to understand how hurtful and fucked up they are doesn’t mean that they’re not those things.
not really. a cocksucker only implies gay if said to a man and wetback again would be like saying someone is illegal which is not a slur. wetback implies going across a river to get in the country illegally. its used as a slur but not generally, it is functionally the same as saying someone is illegal. It becomes racial mainly because again its being used for anyone who is hispanic because a generalization that they look mexican or all look alike thing. honestly wetback is so unoften used I can’t think of any time I have heard it used in real life somewhere. Only on tv.