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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the real one isn't better tbh (tl;dr: he originally tweeted that 'cis' and 'cisgender' are slurs, also many links are down because of his whole rate limit policy)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

That’s far worse. I’ll take egotistical vanity over transphobia any day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally any words could be made a slur dependent on how you use them. It's the ones that are near universally a slur, such as the N word, that anyone should care about.

The fact he didn't feel the need to censor cisgender would be enough to tell you on what level that "slur" actually is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

or he just wanted to use slurs. i mean it's elon musk, you can't discount that possibility