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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.
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.
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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.”
He’s self-diagnosing. It’s a cry for help.
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.
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.
Israeli spent so long pretending the only victims of the Holocaust everyone forgot LGBT and the mentally/physically disabled were among the first once forcibly sterilized and sent to camps.
So now we get pro Israeli Nazis who still hate LGBT and every other group the Nazis did.
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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Which R word? Republican?
Damnit, you swore!
Billionaire with a megaphone, and this is the best he can do? Pathetic.
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It's his word, he is just taking it back to empower himself.
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