When people make a joke about a name in a different language than theirs, based on not being able to pronounce it correctly, is it just stupidity, or stupidity AND racism?

(i guess answer depends on whether or not the different language is spoken by a minority in the space stupid people make that joke?)

Retrospectively, wasn’t a lot of the space-exploration-based SciFi from the 50s 60s 70s serving the purpose of justifying massive government spendings in big rockets, mainly used to build ICBMs, to justify imperialist policies and the cold war?

were we (the scifi afficionados) the useful idiots of this missile race?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ is a good place to start.

a couple of things they got right about uthe future:

• sitting alone in a bubble
• depending on over-architectured machines
• having the illusion to connect to others while only looking at them through something

Inkscape?