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Elon Musk keeps tweeting the 'R-word.' Disability advocates say he needs to stop. (www.usatoday.com)

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clinical terms will constantly shift to more neutral terms any time the current term has taken on more weight than it was intended to have. It can take a bit for the new neutral word to propagate, but it will come around sooner or later. Eventually, the stink of an old term will die down enough that it can come back into medical use.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't care for that. If you have a word and it's been used for something for a long time I do not see the need to change it if it suddenly starts offending people later.

Like working on cars. Lots of parts on cars use terms that some people are now taking offense too. Master/slave to refer to parts that work in a chain of command. Or male and female fittings to describe a connection that protrudes and a connection that has a hole in it.

I'm not going to change my vocabulary because suddenly after hundreds of years people are deciding they don't like the words anymore. They make sense in that application to describe the function of the parts and there is no need to change it. Nobody is being called a master or slave. Nobody is being called a male or female. These are car parts that got named the way they did because it made the most sense.

I'm not gonna get upset with people using the term "fat" to describe anything wide or large just because I'm overweight. That was be stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And indeed using the term engine retarding brake is still totally valid in that same context. You're trying to apply one situation to the context of a different situation.

And when it comes to the word fat, let people around you know you are ok with it. But don't just use it around everyone else assuming they are similarly ok with it. Unless you are ok with people using the word jerk or asshole around you. You don't get to have it both ways.