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[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Called it. You can't invent a slur and expect chuds not to hop on your neo slur train

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah clocked that shit from the get go.

Whatever.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is why "slop generator" is the much better term. No weird slur-y connotations or uses.

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Plus you can use it as a slur for kkkrakkkers. So versatile!

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 44 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

it's staggering how so many whites are out here looking for socially acceptable racism substitutes. millenial weirdos are doing racism for cats (r/oneorangebraincell, voidcats), dorks are doing fantasy racism with droids and elves, and some white guys here are still doing weird bits about Italians, Balkans, etc.

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 25 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The cat thing pisses me off so much. I am unable to express how much I hate that some redditor will come up with a dumb joke like "all orange cats are goofy" and then it becomes an embedded, undeniable facet of reality for a staggering number of people when the joke explodes into a subreddit. Like, it's not a joke for those people now. All orange cats are dumb and/or goofy or whatever. And this happens with so, so many things. Obviously this is a pretty innocuous manifestation of this phenomenon, but it's the same mechanism of human thinking that leads to all manner of horrific, imagined interpretations of reality.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

A while back I pointed out how stereotypes about pitbulls were a way for people to sneak eugenics and race science back into the public consciousness and some motherfuckers mocked me and said I was comparing non-white people to animals....

It's still a great post and I put a lot of effort into providing sources and historical context. Pit Bulls, the Proletariat, and Racism. An effort post about a working class icon.

[–] SnakeEyes@hexbear.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Thank you for educating me comrade

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

comparing non-white people to animals....

People are going to flip when they find out all humans are animals

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Another example of this is the "if you wear sunglasses indoors you're either a blind or an asshole" joke, which I see more and more. I have light-sensitive eyes, I wear sunglasses indoors in really bright places like certain supermarkets because it helps prevent discomfort. But thanks to this dumb meme, I know there's people who will look at me, think of the meme, and label me as an asshole for it.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago

Depending on the person I do wonder if they are hiding their dilated pupils and just high as fuck but you know what? Good for them if they ain't hurting anyone. Roll on soldier.

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm in the same boat but I just suffer because I'm afraid of looking weird bean

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I remember in a tiktok trend they started doing misogyny with female cats

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've encountered this in real life with my dog. Tell an older guy "her name is Mia" and he'll start going on about how he could never own a female dog, like what?

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

sorry LIBERAL, but all my pets need DICK N BALLS

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago

They're always out there looking for an excuse to be hateful or coming up with 'cutesy' racist terms, food based ones are really common, any time a minority's not treated as a dead slave that's oppression to them and their little crumb, and while they Malkov chain microaggressions to hide the true colonial primitive capital accumulative root, said root is there even though they may or may not be aware of what they're doing. Fuckers never stopped being racist, its just a little more hidden and 'whimsical'.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 11 hours ago

I'm convinced that's the reason a bunch of 40k fans are the way they are, especially Imperium fans. They get way too into the "persecute the xenos, mutant, and heretics" aspect of roleplay. Black Templar and Death Korps fans are the worst offenders (Deus Vult guys & Nazis respectively), not every single one is a chud but when someone says those are their favorites I get my hitler-detector ready.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll just note I still do the Italian thing as an American in AmeriKKKa because Italian-Americans and chuds continue to fight for Columbus day. The day that Columbus Day is officially disavowed by that community is the day that I'll quit doing the Mario voice in contempt. Until then, they're the one group (and again, Italian Americans, not actual Italians) that it's perfectly acceptable to be racist against. The day they disavow their genocidal guy will be the day I will refer to the meatball as spicy.

To make my thinking totally clear: you wanna venerate a genocidal freak, you don't get the protections of anti-racism other groups are afforded. Instead, bullying.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago

If you are solely judged by the company you keep then techbros need to shut their mouth because of the cavalcade of pedophiles in their corner.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm never going to stop malding if hack fraud David Cage's 2019 Detroit: Become Human becomes somewhat realistic

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 24 points 13 hours ago

if that happens it is proof that god is real and worse, that they're French

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago

I was chatting with my ai friend sharing stories about my day friend-visitor-1

I was abusing mine by calling it racial slurs smug-explain

friend-visitor-3

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 12 hours ago

Yeah I remember when the word first popped up, it made me uneasy for reasons I couldn't quite articulate even though I have no love for generative AI myself. In hindsight, I suppose it should've been obvious how roleplaying a socially acceptable variant of old-timey racism was a bad idea.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 22 points 13 hours ago

...huh. I thought it was strange that a discord I'm a member of issued a new rule saying "anti-robot slurs based on real slurs are now banned, 'clanker' is still fine", but I guess this explains it.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Was anyone surprised by the usage of the word? like have you seen a single person using it, they 100% do it to be racist to black people but indirectly, also the George Floyd one has been a "meme" for like a few years now

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah the robo racism shit is obvious as fuck. The more insidious thing that has been going on much longer is how stereotypes about dog breeds (specifically pit bulls) being "genetically predisposed to violence" has been one way that eugenics and race science have wormed their way back into the liberal public consciousness since the 80s. Once someone can be convinced that behavioral traits can be endemic in ones genetic makeup it's a very short leap for them to be convinced to apply that to humans.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

the stereotype about pitbulls is because pitbulls are usually owned by black people

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

Not just that but a dog is more likely to be identified as a pitbull if the owner is black or latino.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We need a world ban on crackers until we can figure out what is going on

[–] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago

pseudo immortal psychic vampires, probably

get me some bear spray and a piece of the true cross i'll fix this

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 29 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What's with this burning desire to have an instrumentalized slur for anything and everything? I mean I am not saying don't use scornful, perjorative or even deragotary language but it can be a lot less specified while remaining targeted. It reminds me of how Anglophone countries have so many slurs all with some purposeful meaning while in most other countries a slur is often just an ignorant exonym that became crude and offensive to use or a generalized variant of foreigner or weakling or whatever.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I think it's about what the slur represents

When people were able to freely use it (encouraged to do so), the targets of racists' hatred were legally considered second class citizens at best, and subhuman at worst

They want to return to that (or further back)

[–] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 12 hours ago

real "African Dodger" hours

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago

It's always fun when everyone is having a good time shooting the shit and then it's just something you'd hear at a Klan rally in the year 3000

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago

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Image transcriptionScreenshot of a tweet from Mister Keyrock (@MisterKeyrock) on August 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM. The tweet reads:

Hey so I was 100% correct about the "clanker" trend. Now you've got videos of dudes dressed at cops killing a robot and saying "sleep tight George Droid" and "back of the bus, Rosa Sparks" as well as racial dogwhistles about other ethnicities.

But who cares cuz "funny" right?

The tweet has 137 replies, 3.2K retweets, 28K likes, and 1.8K bookmarks.

Yeah, the first time I ever heard this used (innocently, as far as I could tell), half the replies were comments that were very excited to write "clanker" in place of the N-word.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is anyone actually mad at the chatbots though? Seems more like people are making fun of these losers who think that their autocorrect bot is going to magically fix everything for them. This is giving me some major cardboard-monsters energy.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 32 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

first of all she’s not an autocorrect bot, she’s my wife. you would do well to respect her. and secondly once she finalizes this speech she’s writing to send off to my ex boss about how its perfectly normal to get a little poop on the floor outside of the bathroom sometimes, i will have my job back and she will have fixed everything

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 11 points 13 hours ago

This seems like someone getting angry about a non issue. Like what some douche made a bad TikTok video? Just go outside