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Poor Data... (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The actual scene

And I would just like to say: yes, if you are offended, your feelings are valid. Whether people respect them or not is a different story. You're not entitled to respect for your feelings, but on the other hand, you're also not entitled to be a dick about people's feelings and claim you're just being rational and logical.

When you mock people for being offended and emotional, you are also being emotional: you're feeling very, very smug.

I also find it rather... interesting... that this comic reframes Dr Pulaski as the offended party, rather than Data, as it was in the original. I do sure wonder if there's anything about Dr Pulaski that a certain segment of the population would identify as emotional and irrational.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

well put on all points. Was trying to recall when Pulaski was anything but super-doc professional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also find it rather... interesting... that this comic reframes Dr Pulaski as the offended party, rather than Data, as it was in the original. I do sure wonder if there's anything about Dr Pulaski that a certain segment of the population would identify as emotional and irrational.

The other party in the discussion is a robot

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is an android with a positronic network, that has displayed on numerous occasions the capacity to feel. The linked video is one example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does OP or general audience of the meme know this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do they need to? In the image, he just appears to be a human dressed weirdly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you don't know any further context you'd think the other person is an unemotional robot, which works for the meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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