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CNN: White Robots Are Evidence of Racism
2019-08-02
[BREITBART] Regardless, CNN insisted that droids in reality and popular science fiction are white because of the racism inherent in human society. "The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research," CNN intoned.

The article cited a study entitled "Robots And Racism," conducted by the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand. The study insisted that "people perceive physically human-like robots to have a race and therefore apply racial stereotypes to white and black robots," CNN said.

"The bias against black robots is a result of bias against African-Americans," lead researcher Christoph Bartneck insisted. He also told CNN, "It is amazing to see how people who had no prior interaction with robots show racial bias towards them."
But if they were black, that'd be racist because the robots are slaves, of course. If they were brown that'd be racist, too; everybody knows robots can't produce wind, so there'd be no trumpets in android mariachi bands, so they wouldn't be authentic.
Posted by:Fred

#16  Do you realize how close to stand up comedy the debates were?
Then you realize they are serious and it isn’t funny
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2019-08-02 18:04  

#15  Robots and racism (shakes head) Does it hurt to be that stupid?

How could they worry about the exquisite pain when there is so much racism to stamp out?
Posted by: gorb   2019-08-02 12:27  

#14  I want the gold C3PO model.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-08-02 11:22  

#13  Robot designers have an albino fetish.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-08-02 11:09  

#12  I get my daily workout from shaking my head and facepalming at the stupid on the internet.

(I stole this line from somewhere)
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2019-08-02 10:34  

#11  The word robot comes from the Czech word robots, meaning forced labor. Having white robots means the whites are enslaved.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2019-08-02 10:08  

#10  I would have thought CNN would be pushing for rainbow robots.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-08-02 09:40  

#9  Stormtroopers must be the sci-fi version of the KKK then.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-08-02 09:37  

#8  Could be the Babylon Bee.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2019-08-02 08:53  

#7  Star Trek Next Generation's Data was a sickly yellow. Not human, not racist.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-08-02 08:46  

#6  Just think: even with this, we still haven't reached Peak Stupid yet. It'll only ramp up from here, and we've got 15 months to go before the election.

God help us.
Posted by: Dave D.   2019-08-02 08:00  

#5  Instead of earning their salaries by researching ways for disabled people to interact better, assisted motor independence, machine empathy...these bastiches are wasting their time on earning backslaps from black colleagues and promotions.

Racists of fortune.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-08-02 03:29  

#4  so paint them blue...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2019-08-02 03:04  

#3  Robots and racism (shakes head) Does it hurt to be that stupid?
Posted by: SteveS   2019-08-02 01:06  

#2  aren't robots cultural appropriation - by definition
Posted by: lord garth   2019-08-02 00:50  

#1  End white slavery now!
Posted by: Glomosh Munster6010   2019-08-02 00:34  

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