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Dale's Glasses
Oilman:
I wouldn't be dogmatic about it. Momo strongly disapproves of holo-May, and most people seem to find that a little experience of May (in any shape or form) is more than sufficient. Holo-May is an obvious criminal, with the manners of a chimp at times. She imposes herself on Dale, insults people because they can't perceive her, is plain rude to Momo and gratuitously offensive to Marigold.
She goes off on a rant about "robot racism" when small businesses won't employ an applicant who us plainly just out if jail for a major breach of trust.
Omega Entity:
Actually, it wasn't that the place wouldn't hire her because she was an ex-con, but because she is a robot - her being an ex-con wasn't even mentioned in the conversation with the clerk, where the clerk informed her that her boss doesn't hire robots. That's it. Which implies that it wouldn't matter -what- kind of record a robot has. they could be a saint, and that employer wouldn't hire them.
So, the 'robot racism' rant was, in that case, justified.
Oilman:
This is the core of the "racism" accusation, isn't it? The boss in question may have every good reason not to hire robots. His customers may not respond well to them, and it harms his business. It may be that they lack some necessary skill, unless they specifucally have it. I'll bet folding money that no-one us offering to make up that lost revenue.
Anyway, May has an obvious gap in her CV and no credible account of what she has been doing for however long she gas been in Robot Jail. Anyone hiring staff will draw the obvious conclusion.
But no, let's just shout "racist"
hedgie:
The "lost business" excuse has been used many times in the past for not even considering "x". Sorry, that does !fly. The shop worker had no idea that May was a convict, with a record of fraud, which *is* a valid reason to remove her from consideration.
Omega Entity:
^This. I also find it hard to believe that a robot wouldn't be able to simply download the algorithms and protocols necessary to 'train' for whatever task they'd be required to do. Even proper social interaction is something that can be simply installed. I believe that it was stated that Momo has the protocols installed, after all. So there's that argument shot down right there.
The owner of the store simply doesn't like robots, and because of such refuses to hire them. If you were to use that same argument for black people, or Asian people, or white people, it's be considered racist. So why not robots?
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