This article is utterly insane, doubtlessly intended as satire except that the author never breaks character to let us in on his "joke".
Nothing to see here, these aren't the droids we were looking for, move along, move along.
Posted on 12/19/2015 5:42:24 AM PST by C19fan
I always hated the Jawas.
As a kid, the Jawas weren’t scary the way Stormtroopers or Darth Vader were. But there was something unsettling about them. The Tusken Raiders might have been primitive savages who tried to kill Luke Skywalker—who, back then, was my hero—but the Jawas seemed worse. A little bit evil, even. The feeling was so pronounced that in the dozens of times I watched A New Hope as a child, the massacre of the Jawas never roused even a beat of sympathy in me. It was the opposite, actually. Every time C-3PO piled the Jawa carcasses into a funeral pyre, a little part of me thought, Good riddance. They got what they had coming. But I never understood why I felt that way.
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Does ‘your’ iPhone work for you?
How ‘intelligent’ does a labor saving device have to be?
a good number of Democrat voters are treated as chattel.
So if I buy my wife a robotic vacuum cleaner for Christmas am I committing a microagression?
of course they are owned
the whole point is to have a labor saving device at beck and call
if you didn’t have a certified droid you might get an obama
I had a Jawa whjen I was a kid.
The Clone Wars were basically two slave armies fighting.
Freegards
#DroidLivesMatter
I’m going to get a jaws peanut butter today.
Oops jawa - curses you auto correct.
This article is utterly insane, doubtlessly intended as satire except that the author never breaks character to let us in on his "joke".
Nothing to see here, these aren't the droids we were looking for, move along, move along.
Humans attach emotions to something they might think as being sentient. Star Trek explored these concepts regularly.
Data was deemed to be a toaster,a machine designated to do the humans bidding, therefore under the direction of Starfleet but Picard defended his position as a sentient being. They pull your heart strings instead of the logic and thus the dilemma
Dang! I was thinkin’ #robotlivesmatter. Could be some $$$ in it if we can “self-identify” as a robot.
The Jawas were evolved from packrats, weren’t they? Some kind of rodent, anyway, and generally, they did not evoke a whole lot of sympathy.
I read the article. Yeah, the author doesn’t have a sense of humor. One of the funniest lines in the original movie was the bartender in the cantina who shouts, “We don’t serve your kind here!” Cut to R2’ and ‘3PO who turn to leave and wait outside. Only an idiot could say with a straight face that that line was offensive.
Actually there’s nothing revisionist in this one. Droids are slaves, rewatch the beginning of 4, the word “master” is used frequently and often. I discussed this one with some friends when Clone Wars had their slavery arc, we all agreed it was kind ignoring their own reality to have Yoda go off on the evils of slavery when a vital part of the canon is that droids can develop actual friendships (clearly full sentient beings) and yet are completely property with no self determination. Really I never cared about it until they decided to have a story arc about how evil slavery is.
I know what SIRI is, yet “she” still can manage to irritate the heck out of me. I must admit I have cussed at her.
Come to think about it, I used to cuss at my old 53 chevy. And I have worked on computers my entire life.
We care about drones in a stupid movie but not women under islam?
Because the drones are more real, immediate and knowable...
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