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Elon Musk keeps tweeting the 'R-word.' Disability advocates say he needs to stop.
(www.usatoday.com)
The dude is in desperate need of being flayed alive
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They should just send him some human feces topped with lettuce, onions, and tomatoes, in a hamburger bun, in a bag that says “Enjoy your ass burgers, Elon.”
the disabled are not retards just like the gays are not removeds
He needs to stop, R-words or not.
Besides that, he's a eugenicists, so he wants us "cease to exist" in one way or another.
Of course. Remember, he is projecting.
The motherfucker did Nazi salutes and didn't care. Pretty sure he is not going to care about people complaining that he is saying slurs.
As an aside, why does the article avoid actually naming the r-word? Saying the word is not the same thing as using it. It's not like the N word that way. Maybe it's for SEO or something.
Saying the word is not the same thing as using it. It’s not like the N word that way.
Explain the logic for not quoting an offensive word?
Taboos are weird.
No, there are just a lot of people that literally think it's as bad as the n word. A few comments up someone used the word to help people understand what word the article describes. They got a good 40% downvotes.
It's exhausting. Internet Karen's exist on both sides of the political isle.
I think this one is generational (for real, not "these kids don't have work ethic"). I don't know anyone in my age group that cares at all. I've only ever heard people a decade younger than me say "r-word" in real life.
It's not generational. Bigotry went out of fashion, which is good, and then a completely different and unrelated thing happened at the same time which was terrible and stupid and bad, which is the phony bouts of public fainting whenever somebody uses The Wrong Words. People act, for some weird reason, like these two extremely different things have anything to do with each other.
A word like "retard" can be the ableist slur, or it can be exactly the same as "moron". The strange notion that it can only ever be the shittiest version of itself is simply a mistake. It's an error.
And now it's an error that nobody is willing to publicly acknowledge because it's developed the force of a public fear campaign. It's time for the fear campaign to stop, and for people to understand that words that have multiple senses still have multiple senses even when one of them is really shitty. Don't use the shitty version, use the non-shitty version freely, stop pretending that every use is the shitty version. We do it with "bitch" instinctively. That's what the correct answer to this looks and feels like.
Disability advocates say he needs to stop.
Which is literally why he is just going to keep doing it.
I'm not fucking mincing words when I say these people are god damned children.
Because it's exactly like a child learning a cuss word and being told not to say it. Guess what? They're gonna say it non-stop now.
These people are immature children.
That's an insult to children.
They are mentally ill and also evil. Also, they know that the media doesn’t properly detect and ignore trolling and performative distractions.
The right has never gotten over the loss of the N word and they don't want to loose another precious.
At this point I say we just give them the word. Let them reclaim it, only use the word when referring to Conservatives.
I feel bad for the disabled people who have to be compared to them for the time being, but eventually we'll come out the other side together.
From Dictionary.com:
retard
verb (used with object)
to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
"Hindering or impeding" does sound exactly like the Grand Obstructionist Party.
Just because someone has a mental disability doesn't mean they are Republican. The word r etard should be reserved for Republicans only.
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He’s self-diagnosing. It’s a cry for help.
Asking the eugenics advocate nazi to use nicer words about disabled people is kind of pointless considering he’d probably kill them if he could.
This should be a condemnation letter, it rubs me the wrong way that this is titled as such a defanged “please stop.”
So what’s he doing posting a slur multiple times targeting the disabled community on social media?
If only his other actions could give us some clue.
Nope. Still a mystery!
Disability advocates seem unaware of what right-wingers mean when they complain about "free speech". This is it.
“Freedom of speech” is about the governments ability to regulate your speech. Other people have the free speech to tell you to shut the fuck up, or call you out for using slurs, as the disability rights activists are doing.
No one is wanting the Stazi to show up if you say something shitty, but “r-tarded” is a word with a nasty history behind it. There are so many better ways to insult people than to compare someone or something to developmentally delayed people.
It’s also extremely concerning when someone who is pretty explicitly pro eugenics is using a word that dehumanizes disabled people, while we just appointed a health guy who wants to make farm camps for people with ASD or ADHD.
no they know. they're who's been warning everyone else that the right means hate speech when they say free speech. they don't actually mean freedom of dissent, which is what most of us understand it to mean
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.
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It's his word, he is just taking it back to empower himself.
Which R word? Republican?
Damnit, you swore!
Billionaire with a megaphone, and this is the best he can do? Pathetic.
😾😾
"This just in: Emlo tweeted 69 times while repeating the r-word 420 times in each one."
He's such an edgelord it makes me sick. 🙃
Look, I was a teenager in the 90s, and I too probably used "retard," "gay" and plenty of other words in ways that were offensive in 2025 (or even 2010, or 2000). But as we live in the world, most of us, you know... grow.
While Elon, Trump and all of these other crazy people complain about sensitive liberals, in reality they are the ones feeling triggered by the fabric of reality constantly reminding them that they continue to have the emotional intelligence of a 90s teen (at best). When someone tells them not to say "retard," they say "NO, 90s ME WAS NOT WRONG, YOU'RE WRONG."
But Elon, if you haven't developed enough to feel superior to your 90s self, to treat your 90s self like a different person you're allowed to disagree with, something is wrong with you. It's all just emotional, infantile contrarianism to avoid admitting that they have no capacity for self-reflection.
Lmao, anyone who thinks Trump would stop using that word is, well, I know what Trump would call them.
Musk doesn't take orders and he sure as hell doesn't take requests. Knowing that it offends just makes him want to do it more. He loves the attention, it's why he bought Twitter.
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