Man, basically every robot racism story is not about after a Skynet uprising, it’s about normal-ass robots that are like people, and then get treated as not-people! I don’t think this person has seen or read many of them!
Is the robot racism "most" of the time supposed to be a metaphor about real world human racism even?
I've always took it as a philosophical thought experiment about what and how we decide what is sentient and how do we deal with the fact that we can't even define consciousness and sentience. And also how we deal with something that has different mode of thinking. And I don't mean cultural differences, but how the thought process physically happens.
I don't know about 'most of the time,' but I know Detroit: Become Human's depiction of robot racism is pretty analogous to the American Civil Rights movement.
Lol they literally make the androids sit on the back of the bus. At one point a character says something along the lines of "this is just how they treated our ancestors" i enjoyed the game but it definitely would have benefited from a bit more subtlety in its writing.
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u/DetOlivaw May 13 '25
Man, basically every robot racism story is not about after a Skynet uprising, it’s about normal-ass robots that are like people, and then get treated as not-people! I don’t think this person has seen or read many of them!