Exactly! That’s what HR is all about!
I’m not sure if the protected class thing is defined clearly enough so that we could get that treatment without going through a political mess… Or potentially getting called oppressive towards regular people with no implants.
religion is a defined protected characteristic, you could just lean on cyborg being a religious identity and the person is attacking your religion.
I’m not really looking to find a path from here to there, so going through religion, while possibly workable, kinda avoids the central concept. How is a protected class defined, and would we fit into it? Would we need to have history as a group in order to become a protected class, or is that automatic as soon as we are identified as group and in that process slurred?
in the UK “protect classes” is a legally defined set of characteristics i.e religion sexuality gender race etc.
there are many characteristics that are not considered protected classes such as weight.
workplaces here are legally required to acknowledge and handle incidents where a protected class is the specified target of said incident, most will also say non protected classes also fall under general code of conduct against harassment/abuse and treat them the same.
I don’t think being implanted would qualify for protected status, as it isn’t a historical target of abuse that has statistically motivated violence against members of the group.
I’d be curious to see how a discrimination case against an employer etc would work if the person was fired for simply having non-visible subdermal implants.
Holy hell you’re right.
Ha! We’re working our way through Star Wars in timeline order and are now on the Clone Wars animated series and this term is used a lot in it disparagingly. This series is now my primary association for the word.
There are so many other derogative words that people can/have used against me as a woman of color with immigrant parents that clanker wouldn’t even register at this point.
Eh, let em have their fun. We’re weirdos, no point in trying to deny it. Outliers get marginalized, it’s more an indicator of the insulter’s lack of ambition/imagination than it is a genuine criticism of what we do. Personally with all the categories in which I’m outside societal norms I embrace the disdain. Being undermined means the only way to go is up
I nominate this for the clankerest post of 2025
I think the best thing I’ve been called is robocock… thanks mam
You said it better than me…
What are those things you call “societal norms”?
I personally aim to be left alone so that no one tries to drag me back down. It’s important not to let them do that.
Haha This reminds me of the Alien Earth elevator scene.
It’s hard for me to find it anything less than hilarious because (correct me if I’m wrong) it came from droids in Star Wars getting called clankers. I have been called clanker a couple times because of my implants and it made it even funnier.
Roger roger!
Ok, this is too funny I’m just casually stealing it.
Ha ha ha mere humans 
