Apparently it’s “virtue signaling” and “language policing” to not want to use language that actively oppresses people. Very cool.

We are so far away from any meaningful change it hurts.

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My favorite:

Oh, I mistook people being anti-ICE for being anti-fascist… turns out they’re only anti-ICE

I guess being anti-ICE and being a Good Person are mutually exclusive of one another. My bad, y’all.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    5 days ago

    I was playing Helldivers 2 not that long ago and someone on my team referred to an Automaton as a “Wireback” and how it “should go back to its own planet”

    I emptied all six rounds from my revolver into him, called him a pathetic racist in chat and then kicked him from the game

    I took a break for a while because you couldn’t go more than a mission or two without someone saying “Clanker” with the same vitriol as someone saying the actual N-word

      • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        5 days ago

        First I’ll paste a comment I left about this recently:

        Yes, but the people who are using it that way are doing it as a cover so they can just cosplay lynching a black person. I’m not saying you are doing that at all, but that is the crowed you end up associating with as a result of using it. There’s a reason it sounds like the N-word with a hard R. I’ve seen enough shit on the internet surrounding the term to know that they are just black-coding all the “robots” in all these conversations/videos. Taylor Lorenz, for as much of a liberal she can be at times, has good coverage of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtbkOfUlIo. Another term that had been floating around was “wireback” which is just replacing “wet” with “wire” in the traditional slur against Mexicans.

        Second, Chud and Hog do not root themselves in an actual slur in the same way that “clanker” and “wireback” do, which I always thought was pretty obvious.

      • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        5 days ago

        A person can change their behavior and beliefs and stop being a chud or hog. Using a word as a slur that refers to an unchangeable part of a person or entity is the problem.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        5 days ago

        Clanker is just an excuse to get away with saying something close enough to the N-word for these people

        It’s already gross enough when they say shit like that and then titter away like a school kid who got away with saying dookie

        It’s worse when you can tell they’re using it as an actual slur

        • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          16·
          5 days ago

          It’s worse when you can tell they’re using it as an actual slur

          TBH they give the whole game away when they say “Wireback”. “Clanker” had the excuse of being from Star Wars, there’s no way to get to “Wireback” without deriving directly from an actual racial slur and no reason to do so other than to tear the mask off for all your fellow chuds while keeping only barely a small layer of “plausible” deniability for the civility lib audience.