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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.
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