Perplexed comments on To signal effectively, use a non-human, non-stoppable enforcer - LessWrong

31 Post author: Clippy 22 May 2010 10:03PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 03 June 2011 11:36:47PM 3 points [-]

This comment is racist to the point of being ridiculous. It denigrates humans as petty and subject to being corrupted by power while denying that Clippies have any such negative attributes. Classic racism.

Furthermore, there is an implicit claim that the reason for the moral superiority of Clippies over humans lies in the difference in their origins. Again, classic racism.

Perhaps Clippies use words differently, but the way humans use words, it is not racism to project one's own race's characteristics onto another race. It is racist to fail to make that projection.