Had this printed so I can do my own little protesting. Here's a high-res image if you want to print your own:
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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Love the sticker, the only thing is isn't clanker being used a lot by racists as a stand in for the n word?
No clanker is the non racist term we use against robots. If you find it racist then you might be a robot.
My understanding is that it was a word created to have a similar usage/meaning to the n-word, but towards not-actually-sentient computers. It was never used against any class of people, to my knowledge.
I find it super sus that people are going "yay, we get to make up a slur!" It's not a matter of the targets being hurt by it, it's the motivation.
Ehhh, I kinda get it. I like humanity; it's pretty neat. I don't like slurs denigrating certain groups of humans. I don't like AI being pushed to replace human things and being personified in its own way. This is one of the rare times that a slur is used against a non-human AND was simply declared to be intended as a slur from the beginning, rather than having some history driving it.
To your point about the motivation being important: what of the motivation do you see as a problem? I see a resistance to AI replacing important characteristics of humanity. That's a pretty good one, I'd say.
Some people use it for disabled people with advanced prosthetics, which I frankly find extremely disgusting.
Not saying it isn't happening, but I've never seen that.
That's fine - I've only seen one instance, but the type of person to throw out "clanker" like it's candy using it in that manner does seem in-character. A lot of them are Helldivers players who are actual fascists instead of just roleplayers.
Never heard of that, is that a thing? Racists even ruin AI hate smh
i have no idea if that's the case but i am also very certain that's not the context the word is being used in here.
No, you see humans are all the same race. The term we use to describe the derogatory use of terms towards other humans is racism, but that's not really what we're doing, but that's the word we have accepted. I don't like dogs - that's racism. I don't like AI - that's not even racism computers aren't a race