This is anti transfeminitiy.
You’re right, completely right. I had a similar submission on the original account that said something similar, that if you’re really in the mood to insult a trans woman to just use the correctly gendered slur and all. But correctly gendering someone goes completely out of the window when transness is involved.
“Oh but I have a gay/trans/black/disabled/other minority cousin” doesn’t work, you can be [minority]phobic even when you’re part of that minority.
Accepting someone doesn’t only mean don’t bully them and accept them for what they are, it also means treating them like normal humans and not like a pass for saying slurs or a rare species to brag about.
Accepting someone means that, if you insult them, you won’t do that with slurs but with normal insults.
It’s incredible how we need to say these things in 2026.
I don’t know who needs to read this, but the people who use the term Clanker or Clanka in a way that isn’t critical of the usage of the term or using it for a specific roleplay setting are just outing themselves.
Like, the term Clanker was coined in a Star Wars Republic Commando as a slur against droids because of the sounds they made. It was intended to be a slur in a fictional setting to highlight where clones’ priorities were regarding these machines when fighting them. Applying this term in day-to-day life makes you look cringe at best and a bigot at worst; you’re not supposed to side with the Republic so uncritically just because they’re presented in the light as protagonists more often than not.
Helldivers also has a similar sentiment towards Automatons and Cyborgs, thereby encouraging the roleplay of being the “Freedom Lovers” that is the forces of Super Earth.
So, where am I getting at with this? As much skepticism as I have for people within fandoms centred around works who use robots or AI as antagonistic forces, there’s at least SOME excuse to be made that they’re doing it in part to belong in a community. But what does that say for those outside those fandoms? Well I’d say it’s much worse.
Ever since technophobes and anti-ai “activists” rallied together in a union I can only imagine as a horrid proposal of the ‘Missing the Forest for the Trees’ division, it seems a lot of people have adopted words like Clanker to their casual lexicon without question, which further fuels the flames of both these movements of being anti-technology more than anti-capitalist, if not using the latter as a thin veil for their own ignorance and bigotry.
Some of you might come in and say “It’s not that deep bro” or “the slur is fictional, so it doesn’t have the same connotations as it does to real life” Except these counter-arguments don’t hold weight on their own because
If you ever came across a young 40K (imperium) fan, you probably recognize the “ironic” adoption of roleplaying as an imperial citizen: whether it’s them saying things like “praise the emperor” or “purge the xeno” or the most common one “heretic!” by playing into this role, they become the very thing they claim to satirize, which is one of many ways people normalize discrimination against a specific group along with jokes and slurs. And I used to be one of those obnoxious idiots until I realized how stupid it was and how I missed the plot regarding the Imperium of Man.
The only difference between that and those who aren’t part of those fandoms is that one has the excuse of getting pumped from the presence of the source material, and the other is molded from a collective of misguided prunes who subconsciously let their prejudice get the better of them (most of whom fall into a specific privileged majority)
It doesn’t take much for a “disadvantaged” majority to speculate about a scapegoat causing their problems rather than focusing on the problems themselves hello white people. Like it’s Reeeallly weird how much y'all are frothing at the opportunity to point fingers at things to bring out your torch and pitchforks while also totally not fantasizing an extremely racialized version of an “Us vs Them” dynamic. I know why y'all do it, but that doesn’t make it any less ok. Because when you start using these terms in relation to machines or even REAL PEOPLE who have mechanical body parts, y'all are just being speciest (and ableist for that matter)
first is an anecdote. then its a reference. then its only fictional. then its universaly condenmed to be bad and “i cant believe i have to say this” coming from the same people who did in fact participate enthusiastically cause the cover wasnt blown yet
One thing that gets me with the “clanker” thing is that, for months I had no idea it was an allusion to. I thought it was just a way to talk about a junky machine - like looking at the rusty pickup your grandpa got that is missing half a floorboard and you have to stop the engine at stop lights so it doesn’t catch on fire, like, you look at that heap of scrap parts and go “Now THAT is a clanker.”
And like, from what I understand, that’s what it meant in some fandom spaces.
But then I saw a video about a diner, where a waitress was all “No clankers here! Why don’t you go back and take someone ELSE’S jobs!” and then suddenly recontextualised the ways I’d seen it used, and had an “Oh No” moment…
And THEN I saw people linking videos of people with prosthetics getting called “clanker”, and heard someone say their little brother with a continuous glucose monitor was called another slur (I think it was “wireback” but it was on a thread about real world ramifications of the ‘funny fake slurs’ outlook) and just. Any neutrality I could have on it went away.
And after THAT I learned that the relation to real world slurs was not incidental, but purposeful, and I look back at myself a year ago all “you sweet summer child, you are about to lose more faith in humanity”.
Anyway, I went from thinking “Man I don’t know what’s so bad about calling the lying autocorrect a goofy term meaning 'junk’” to “Everything Sucks So Much” very quickly, and I wish that people would understand that like, no I do not fucking care about what you call machines, I care about the implications of what you’re saying and how they relate to real people, and how those words are being used against real life people who just want to fucking live their lives.
Also, yes, feel free to laugh at me for not immediately jumping to “oh wow, this sounds a lot like a real world slur. This is by design.” I give perhaps too much grace to random strangers a lot.
We really don’t need to touch the pejoratives for groups we aren’t part of. Non-jews don’t need to say k*ke. Straight people don’t need to say d*ke. Men don’t need to say b*tch. Expand your horizons and use different words. Yes, even if the gay jewish barista was super mean to you. Even if she kicked all your puppies. You can say something without slurs.
Am I in the wrong here?
Is this intersexist or am I crazy?
Like, I said in my original comment something along the lines of “I wish people wouldn’t use the h slur to refer to this animal with mosaicism. Like I guess I get when people use it for cosexual animals like snails but in this case this is an intersex animal you’re referring to”
And everyone acted like I was just looking for something to be offended by.
And then they were like “do you get offended by someone calling a black cat black” and it’s like. That’s not the same thing at all.
I posted in evil autism so I thought they’d be more understanding but I guess either all of Reddit is a credit. Or I’m just crazy and oversensitive and a stupid sjw or something.
Antisemitic conspiracies based on Holocaust denial tactics | The Jerusalem Post
The targeting of Jewish people on social media and the online spread of antisemitic conspiracy theories are based on the core tactics of Holocaust denial, new research released by non-profit CyberWell ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day shows.
The research report, titled “Denial and Conspiratorial Self-Victimization in Antisemitic Discourse: Analysis of the Online Aftermath of Violent Attacks on Jews and Israelis,” aimed to track and analyze content that “erased Jewish victimhood, denied atrocities, or falsely claimed that Jews or Israelis staged attacks against themselves,” according to CyberWell.
CyberWell analyzed over 300 pieces of online antisemitic social media content, posts that received nearly 14 million views total, “that both denied violent attacks on Jews and Israelis and propagated conspiratorial self-victimization claims asserting that they orchestrated the attacks themselves.”
The analysis uncovered a pattern of antisemitism not defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of antisemitism, which specifically focuses on Holocaust-related incidents.
“The IHRA definition does not reference broader denial or conspiratorial self-victimization narratives surrounding antisemitic violent attacks,” CyberWell noted in the report, adding that they “developed a categorization system designed to specifically track and analyze” narratives involving the denials and “conspiratorial self-victimization” covered in the report.
The CyberWell framework includes four categories: CW1 - Denial of violent events against Jews, CW2 - Denial of violent events against Israelis, CW3 - Conspiratorial self-victimization against Jews, and CW4 - Conspiratorial self-victimization against Israelis.
CyberWell additionally noted that their categories can also intersect with IHRA-defined categories and that “many examples fall into more than one category simultaneously. For example, content labeling the October 7 massacre as a ‘hoax’ (CW1) often appears alongside claims that Jews staged the attack for political gain (CW3).”
The research for the report began on November 7, 2024, following the Amsterdam pogrom in which Israeli soccer fans were chased down and beaten in the street by an organized mob, an incident CyberWell labelled “a critical turning point as the first major act of antisemitic violence following October 7.”
The posts analyzed by CyberWell related to incidents, including the Amsterdam Pogrom, Hamas’s October 7 massacre, the Capital Jewish Museum shooting, and the Boulder, Colorado, Molotov cocktail attack in which a man attacked a group participating in a solidarity march for Israeli hostages taken during the October 7 massacre, among other incidents of antisemitic violence.
CyberWell found that a pattern of denial and conspiratorial self-victimization was “consistently observed” in the posts about each event, noting that the narratives perpetuated served to “fuel further incitement.”
The most commonly occurring category in the analyzed posts was CW3 - Conspiratorial self-victimization against Jews, which CyberWell defined as posts that “blamed Jews for being responsible or committing a violent attack on themselves.”
According to CyberWell, 88% of the posts analyzed fell into the CW3 category, demonstrating that “the narrative inversion of blaming Jews for violence committed against them remains the dominant form of denial and conspiratorial self-victimization within antisemitic discourse.”
CyberWell noted that much of the analyzed posts “advance a recurring 'false-flag’ narrative, alleging that Jews staged events, including instances of self-directed harm, to influence public perception.”
Such “false-flag” conspiracies claimed that a specific antisemitic incident was “staged,” linking the incident to earlier examples in an attempt to frame them as “an alleged recurring pattern.”
The use of the term Zionist as a slur was also prominent in the data, CyberWell reported, stating that it was “often used not to describe political ideology, but as a proxy for Jews and Israelis, or simply as a derogatory label,” a phenomenon that CyberWell stated aligns with a “broader observation that ‘Zionist’ is routinely deployed as a slur in multiple antisemitic narratives.”
CyberWell found that the platforms where the analyzed content was posted revealed “exceptionally low enforcement” of anti-hate speech policies and a “deeply concerning” pattern of moderation standards relaxing over time since October 7.
CyberWell concluded the research report with a number of recommendations for social media platforms regarding the regulation and removal of posts that perpetuate antisemitic hatred or conspiracy theories.
CyberWell called platforms to: "Adopt explicit policies against violent event denial; explicitly prohibit antisemitic conspiratorial self-victimization; and develop stronger detection tools for denial and conspiratorial self-victimization.”
