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Rule of being a free speech absolutist (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Poor Lord Farq-I mean Elon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As a gamer, I will forever pray for him when someone tries to steal my jungle only to return to lane.

[+] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

May as well call white a slur because, if my memory serves me correctly, people who aren't white almost always use it with a negative connotation describing "white-people" as doing something bad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Idk, in relevant situations I have no problem calling myself cis. Just because a very small number of people are broadly hostile towards cis people doesn't make the word a slur. Cissy perhaps, but I still say meh to that because I just can't be bothered to be offended by it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but if Elon wants free speech he should allow the use of those slurs. Not that I think that wouldnt be chaotic, but Elon is being hypocritical here

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

I don't know what these words actually mean and I don't like them.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I see nothing wrong with that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After how he got fucked by Twitter and himself during negotiations, I totally lost respect for this him. A clown with money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He never claimed to be an absolutist. He never planned in allowing things like vioent threats, for example.

And he's right about those terms - they are used as slurs to shut down discussion. It's a quick and easy way to belittle someone and trivialize their argument.