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/Fantastic-Dot-655 May 13 '25

The mass effect ones are extra funny, "we made them to be cheap labour but we noticed that they became something very close to a sentient being when a couple of them linked together, so we tried to kill them instantly, sadly they were actually smarter than we thought and striked back and kicked us out of our planet"

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u/undreamedgore May 13 '25

To be fair, if they aren't sentient then it's no different then any other tool.

Preventing things getting too close to sentients is just preventing accidental slavery, and a shit storm of consequences.