If My Hard Drive Had Borders, Would That Make Me a Bigot?

If My Hard Drive Had Borders, Would That Make Me a Bigot?

Let’s imagine for a moment that your computer — sweet, innocent, humming along with its tabs of cat videos, invoices, and half-finished DIY projects — suddenly gets hit by a virus. Not just any virus. This one speaks another language, doesn't understand the file structure, and starts replacing your cherished folder of “Quotes That Make Me Feel Deep” with random TikTok clips and encrypted files named ‘system_bro_reset.exe’.

Now, are you going to say, “Oh look! It’s just expressing its digital culture. I must be open-minded and let it overwrite my BIOS in the name of diversity!”

Of course not. You're going to scream, panic, unplug the thing, Google “how to kill malware” on your phone, and curse the day you clicked that link titled “Free DIY tools for alpha men.”

But in the glorious realm of real-world politics, if you express even the tiniest concern about your culture, systems, or traditions being flooded, fragmented, or completely reprogrammed by overwhelming change without proper integration, you're suddenly labelled as phobic, toxic, or (my favourite) “far-right adjacent.”

Let the system crash — it’s good for progress!

Apparently, pointing out that your nation’s operating system can only handle so many unpatched updates before crashing is now problematic. Because, who needs stability, cohesion, or, I dunno, understanding what your doctor’s saying — when you can have chaotic multicultural utopia where nobody understands each other but at least the food options are banging?

Your firewall is now racist

You set boundaries? That’s xenophobic. Want to back up your culture like it’s an old photo album? Colonial guilt says no. Try to stop your societal RAM being used up by a thousand parallel policies designed to please everyone except the locals? Well, guess who’s cancelled now.

We’re told to celebrate change like it’s an automatic update. “Just click yes, accept all cookies, and let your traditions be overwritten for a better tomorrow.” Never mind that the new software has no manual, costs a fortune in translation services, and crashes your A&E department every weekend.

Culture = Software. Integration = Compatibility Mode.

Here’s the thing: every culture is beautiful, but if you throw them all into a system without compatibility settings, things break. You get lag, corruption, blue screen vibes in your schools, your public services, and — most importantly — in your sense of belonging.

And saying that out loud doesn’t make you a bigot. It makes you a user who reads the manual before clicking ‘Install Now.’

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Final Thought: I’m Not a Racist, I’m Just Cybersecurity Conscious

So, let’s stop calling firewalls “hate” and viruses “cultural enrichment.” Let’s have real conversations, with real context, and — for the love of all that’s sacred — let’s stop deleting the core files of what makes a society function, just to look virtuous on the global stage.

Because if the hard drive goes, the beautiful weirdos go with it.

And I, for one, want a future where the weirdos run the world — not where the system crashes mid-reboot while we’re all arguing over which language to scream in.