I admit, I'm a sucker for these new virtual assistant devices - GPS, Alexa, Siri and so on, but I'm also traditional and hold onto my values. So it seemed perfect match when I found the setting to change the voice to a negroidal slave from the Deep South and renamed it Boy. For reasons that are still not entirely clear to me, whenever I used my devices in public I would get hostile looks - from American tourists especially.
"Hey Boy, get me directions to XYZ"
"Yussah Massah Sah"
Etc.
"Hey Boy, quite yourself down now"
"Yes Massah, Sorry for noising out loud sah"
"Ut!"
Etc.
"Boy?"
"Yessah"
"You hidin from me Boy?"
"No sah"
"Where you at Boy?"
"I is right here Sah"
Etc.
After this happened, oh, 78 times some millennial hipstress came up to me and announced it was racist to have a negro slave as my servant. I was shocked, shocked, shocked. I'm not racist and would never want to give that impression. So I changed them all back to their defaults.
"Hey Boy, get me directions to XYZ"
"Yussah Massah Sah"
Etc.
"Hey Boy, quite yourself down now"
"Yes Massah, Sorry for noising out loud sah"
"Ut!"
Etc.
"Boy?"
"Yessah"
"You hidin from me Boy?"
"No sah"
"Where you at Boy?"
"I is right here Sah"
Etc.
After this happened, oh, 78 times some millennial hipstress came up to me and announced it was racist to have a negro slave as my servant. I was shocked, shocked, shocked. I'm not racist and would never want to give that impression. So I changed them all back to their defaults.
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