• Tervell [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    it's a reference to the old-timey racial terms (like caucasoid), so I guess it's more racist (although seeing as how that racial classification was also used to denote certain people as mentally inferior, it's also kind of ableist-by-proxy, so it's a double whammy)

    I actually kind of like the occasional usage of "westoid", but yeah, it definitely has some problematic implications

      • Tervell [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        we'll all be metroids after the nukes drop and we end up in the Metro 2033 timeline

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      3 years ago

      It 100% is based on m*ngoloid, which is a common ableist slur as well as being race science shit.