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WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
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MrNumbers, I just don't think anything she said is a problem of not knowing her audience. It's rude and dehumanising (although yeah I agree that this isn't the best word given the topic), not to mention that it is gross in a very familiar way, for one to talk over other's lived experiences to enforce their opinions or (likely flawed) studies.
edit - and I'm not saying that means she's the worst character or a bad person; I know people can get tied up in academics and forget that people aren't just statistics. I'm saying she is being objectively rude and offensive, whether or not she means to be
A_Reasonable_Man:
fellas is it cool to make a black woman the strawman thoughtless academic in your story arc about racism/dehumanization of fake robot people
it seems like there might be some problems with that
ImVeryAngryItsNotButter:
--- Quote from: A_Reasonable_Man on 18 Jan 2018, 03:16 ---fellas is it cool to make a black woman the strawman thoughtless academic in your story arc about racism/dehumanization of fake robot people
it seems like there might be some problems with that
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If anything, I think that might be the most appropriate choice for this arc. It sends the message that anyone can be bigoted, not just historically privileged peoples.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 17 Jan 2018, 20:48 ---
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 17 Jan 2018, 20:30 ---The comparison of AIs to nuclear weapons was too much. Can I please, please punch Evie? I want to punch her. She has just been irritating since she showed up. First saying that Faye was "negging" her, and just generally being a douche. She's super annoying.
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Wow, new QC characters REALLY get hostile receptions these days.
Evie seems bright, pretty easygoing, and clearly has some issues when it comes to processing the humanity of AI entities in practice as opposed to on paper. Nobody's perfect. This is not a flaw that calls for being punched. :\
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Yeah, I'm with you on this.....I'm surprised and kind of shocked to see some people here exhibiting such hostility towards Evie.
I recently left academia after almost 20 years in it in multiple countries, and while I agree that there are many stuck-up, head-in-ass academics, I would at the moment certainly not place Evie in that category. She is overexcited about her research and clearly has not quite learned yet how to reconcile her interest/knowledge in AI psychology with appropriate interactions with AIs to not inadvertently dehumanize them. I don't see any ill intent or any of the typical academic arrogance in her (yet).
A desire for physical violence towards her seems somewhat....disturbing, but that's just my two cents.
As for Bubbles' current state of mind, I am also curious to see if this perhaps has to do with Faye taking advantage of Melon instead of whatever Evie may have said. Since Melon specifically asked whether $100 was an appropriate amount, any ethically sound business would point out that that's too much. If after pointing that out Melon would still like to give $100, then that's fine. Now it just looks as exploiting somebody's naivete, which is not a good look.
Plus, it's a bad business decision in the long run too, because if Melon finds out that she way overpaid and spreads word about it, that could likely hurt Union Robotics.
Case:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 17 Jan 2018, 20:21 ---I honestly want to punch Evie. I immediately disliked her from the start and the way she's treating Bubbles is shitty. She reminds me of every stuck up, head up their ass academic I've ever come across. Gross.
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Guess it must be frustrating to see how often ones' knee-jerk antipathy and prejudices against members of a despised out-group turn out to be perfectly justified by the behaviour of fictionalized descriptions of members of said group in serialized comedic media.
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