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{{quote|'''[[Loveable Rogue|Haley:]]''' How can you be so smart sometimes and still be such an... an AIRHEAD!
'''[[Fish Out of Water|Celia:]]''' HEY! There's no need for racial slurs!
|'''''[[The Order of the Stick]]'''''}}
In fiction, racism is sometimes dealt with through metaphor, such as humans treating [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|sentient robots as second-class citizens]], [[Elves vs. Dwarves]], [[Fur Against Fang]].
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Compare [[Pardon My Klingon]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Gundam]]'' Earth Federation soldiers call the Zeon "Zeeks" and Zeon soldiers call the Federation "Feddies".
** While Spacenoid is in fact the in-universe term for people who live in space colonies or on the moon, the [[Zeta Gundam|Titans]] use it as a slur. This doesn't carry over to the word Earthnoid for space-dwellers.
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** Another Trek one—in the [[Expanded Universe]], Klingons are sometimes referred to as "turtleheads" or "ridgeheads".
** ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'': "Spoonheads" or "Cardies" for Cardassians.
* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' has "Chiggers" or "Chigs" for the [[Bug War|insectoid enemy species]] and "Nipplenecks" or "Tanks" for the In Vitros. ([[Artificial
* "Dagger" for Dagwood's [[Super Soldier|people]] in ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]''.
* ''[[Stargate]]'': "Snakeheads" or simply "snakes" for the Goa'uld.
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