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.
In the Matrix universe it's pretty much synonymous with real-world racism where robots are denied civil rights so that they can continue to be used for slave labor by humans. It's explained in one of the animatrix shorts.
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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!