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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Is that inherently a bad motivation? What makes slurs a bad thing? The fact that they hurt people? This doesn't hurt people.
If a straight person says the word "fag" in private where no one can hear, does that hurt anyone? The target of that word is real people, but if no one is around to hear...
Eagerness to say a slur because this time no one's getting hurt indicates that someone was willing to say a slur already, but held back to be politically correct. In fact it's mostly the people chomping at the bit to call LLMs "clankers" who identify the word "clanker" as a slur in the first place. I wouldn't even be bothering to make this comment if the prevailing discourse wasn't "clanker is a slur (and that's okay)".