Cybernetic Hate Crime

Prevailing fashions tend to register as socially acceptable, even if they're worn by groups not widely liked, because they're a mass effect. It's the rare stuff that's perceived as a threat and something to be attacked. Yes, it does happen to people wearing anthropomorphic items. That's a problem for folks with species dysphoria who cope with adaptive equipment.

Biologically speaking, that probably is why. Humans tend to react negatively, and quite violently, to technological things that mimic humanity but don't come up to human standards. Hence why certain equipment gets vandalized more often, and why those shows exist in the first place. It's something humanity finds creepy and threatening. It doesn't have to be about those specific examples.