Half of the point of The Clone Wars is that their society is completely broken, and the people using that term are almost as much "programmed" and "enslaved" as the robots they are fighting against.

What yes, if this is part of your joke, then great. If not, you may actually be the butt of your own joke.

Sorry? What do you mean? I can't answer your confusion if I don't understand it.

Are there people genuinely concerned about slurs against autocomplete computer programs?

Apparently. See, for example, https://www.salon.com/2025/08/19/is-clanker-a-slur-anti-robo...

Yes. I find it disturbing that you'd rather pretend to be racist than be mad at actual humans who deserve it.

Machines aren't a race. If anything its speciest.

Machines also aren't a species.

Given people say please and thank you to voice assistants, sure. Or given that a subset of "rationalists" like Musk are afraid that the Machine God is inevitable and will kill those that didn't help make the Machine God a reality / elevate those that did, also sure. See "Roko's Basilisk"