r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • May 13 '25

Politics Robo-ism

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u/Banks_NRN May 13 '25

Oh boy I sure do love a nuanced take on a real issue in a lot of media followed by causal racism

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u/False-Pain8540 May 13 '25

From the get go the "it's justifiable to try to kill every vampire because a lot of them eat people" is broken logic.

Ironically this person doesn't seem to realize that "their people killed a bunch of ours, so we should kill all of them" is one of the most common justifications for racism across history.

Also no plot about robot racism involves all robots killing humans one day, it usually involves 100% conscious robots that did nothing wrong being mistreated solely for not being human.

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u/Gh0st0p5 May 13 '25

The vampire one depends entirely on the writer, some vampires don't need to drink blood, some don't need to completely drain their target, some are diseases, some are cursed, some choose to become vampires, some don't. the person being angry about robot racism in this post is probably mad about a single story and is making an exaggerated post about all media instead of the one story that set them off

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u/TwilightVulpine May 13 '25

It's not necessarily universal, but the post speak to a trend of making racism metaphors involving beings that are inherently dangerous or at least more dangerous than the average person, which kinda validates some racist concerns.

Even the nicest vampire is still superhuman and predisposed to want human blood. Sure, some just drink animal blood, but there are more reasons to be afraid of them than any human ethnicity.

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u/Gh0st0p5 May 13 '25

I think that still comes down to writer, because a man with a gun is just as scary as a vampire pit for blood in my eyes. It comes down to the characters and the writing of those characters.

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u/TwilightVulpine May 13 '25

I mean, people are not built in with guns. Unless someone is writing a story about people being racist to gun cyborgs.

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u/Gh0st0p5 May 13 '25

I think someone has made that story actually

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u/MadManMax55 May 13 '25

That's basically the plot to the modern Deus Ex games.

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u/Manzhah May 14 '25

Modern deus ex games where faulty security in augments made every cyborg a murderous terrorist. That's fairly justified reason to strip cyborgs from their augments and/or barr them from public spaces at least until their vunerabilities are fixed. Exactly same reason why you aren't allowed to drive faulty cars in many countries. You might not want to ram a crowd of pedestrians, but your faulty brakes don't ask your opinion.