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is clippy a dogwhistle? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Been seeing a lot of clippy pfps and sometimes those users are saying very racist shit. Just curious if anyone else had noticed this

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[–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think it was started by the right-to-repair guy, Rossman or something. Iirc it's supposed to support for pro-consumer policies or something, I don't remember anything specific

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think Rossman isn't really a lefty guy even though he is critical of corporations, so there are tons of chuds in his audience. I think the clippy thing is an indirect correlation, just a bunch of treat-brained individuals who have opinions on corportlate right-to-repair purely as a consumer, no class or economic analysis involved.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    this is true, he owns a small repair business so literally petit-bourgeois, the clippy pfp of some people in his audience is the phenomenon of anti-big corp small business type liberals that don't have a bigger analysis of why or how to solve the right-to-repair issue than promote it culturally, go through the US / EU Courts to get it done, and fund libre software (though I think he's part of FUTO? and it's a controversial org, I think?)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    ^This is exactly it. I've watched a decent amount of his channel and he did indeed start it. He's kinda libertarian (legit kind) about tech, right to repair, right to not be surveilled, etc. It's specifically an anti LLM thing. Racists ruin even decent things, but it's not a racist dog whistle in it's inception.

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