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Slurs can demonstrate where there are prejudices in society, how relatively acceptable they are, and what form they take. In sci-fi and fantasy, slurs are often used to show how the depicted society thinks; “clankers,” “skin jobs,” “pecks,” “mudbloods,” “prawns,” etc. are all marginalized in the worlds they occupy, with the terms themselves giving a clue as to where the cracks are in the societies they are showing.