Elon Musk has the ear of one of the most powerful people in the world – President Donald Trump – making him one of the most powerful people in the world, too. He’s been given unfettered access to adjust the federal government’s budget and headcount.
So what’s he doing posting a slur multiple times targeting the disabled community on social media?
Useless headline. The R-word is apparently “removed”.
I spell it out here because this isn’t mentioned at all in the article. Figuring out what it was talking about required finding and reading text that was embedded in an image on x.com.
I can’t wait for your treatise on pronouns, Sir Edgealot.
You’re in the wrong here. Reread the message and the tone of the message and then I’d like a 500 word essay on which particular diction in the post makes you think he’s an edgelord rather than someone who genuinely doesn’t know who would abbreviate something “r-word” as if it’s an equivalent moral choice to call a person by that word as it is to call a person by a word that evokes 400 years of triangle trade suffering (or for a subset of the us population, the analogous c-word which many view as evoking 10,000 years of misogynistic behaviors).
Once that essay is done, I’d like 1000 words on why you think this post makes him anti-trans or, if it’s easier, anti-“pronoun” whatever that happens to be a dog whistle for in your head. Feel free to use their comment history for this one if needs be.
The post was edited since that reply, not alot of people go back and check if that happened.
The edit to my comment merely added the second paragraph, which explicitly spells out what should have been obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension skills, or failing those, at least a modicum of simple human kindness.
Using the actual word for reporting is not the same as using the word as an insult. Bowdlerizing news doesn’t do anything besides making them uncleared.
Yes, it is… stop.
I just Ctrl+f’d the article and can confirm it’s not defined. Why do you say it is?
They edited their post to be completely different from when I replied. I haven’t been back since. Everyone else that replied before the edit doesn’t make sense anymore either.
Kind of sucks that can happen, maybe we should be notified when something we replied to is edited.
No, I did not. I added a second paragraph to address your obvious misinterpretation.
The first paragraph is what you replied to, and remains intact. You could have tried to understand it on its own, but instead you chose to look for an excuse to chide a stranger. That was unkind, unwarranted, and unnecessary.
The question asked by [email protected] stands.