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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoRobots are white for the same reason Apple computers are white: to chase that 2001 A Space Odyssey aesthetic that’s become shorthand for “futuristic.”
minus-squarenorimee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·1 year agoThe Space Odyssey is racist too?? (Actually I haven’t seen it, but a movie from 1968, wouldn’t surprise me, if it wasn’t all that PC)
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 year agoIt doesn’t even really involve people (there’s 1 guy and an AI). But HAL was totally racist against humans.
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYou haven’t seen it? Wow. But no, doesn’t involve that.
Robots are white for the same reason Apple computers are white: to chase that 2001 A Space Odyssey aesthetic that’s become shorthand for “futuristic.”
The Space Odyssey is racist too??
(Actually I haven’t seen it, but a movie from 1968, wouldn’t surprise me, if it wasn’t all that PC)
It doesn’t even really involve people (there’s 1 guy and an AI).
But HAL was totally racist against humans.
You haven’t seen it?
Wow.
But no, doesn’t involve that.