alt-text for thumbnail in case it embeds: it is an image of a queer flag with an infinity symbol, on a drawn wooden background with the words “autistic people mistaken for AI” on it
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Trolls, bots, NPC's, ai, it's all the exact same attack - "this isn't a real person so I don't have to deal with their argument." It's a thought terminating cliche so they don't have to deal with the cognitive dissonance.
By default I just assume that people with predictable and exhausting cliches are just indoctrinated that thoroughly, and are still people.
The most blatant example of that is how many
glazers, going back at least a decade, will say almost word for word "but humans must become an interplanetary species" to run interference for whatever environmental devastation, resource plundering, or worker abusing skullduggery their savior of humanity was up to today.
if i'm being completely honest i tell this to myself when i read something reactionary or hateful ... it helps to believe that they're a Koch bot or that they're being paid by rich assholes. maybe that's not something i should do?
People are quite capable of bigotry, hate, and ignorance.
It arguably makes us more vulnerable to bad people if we assume bad people simply don't exist.