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?
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.
It’s on its way back. They’ve reverted to “negro” already.
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 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.
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.”
The dude is in desperate need of being flayed alive
Useless headline. The R-word is apparently “retarded”.
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.
Yes, it is… stop.
I can’t wait for your treatise on pronouns, Sir Edgealot.
Using the actual word for reporting is not the same as using the word as an insult. Bowdlerizing news doesn’t do anything besides making them uncleared.
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.
Isn’t he allowed to use this word just as black people have a pass using the N-word?
Which R word? Republican?
Damnit, you swore!
“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. 🙃
He’s self-diagnosing. It’s a cry for help.
Of course. Remember, he is projecting.
Billionaire with a megaphone, and this is the best he can do? Pathetic.
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Lmao, anyone who thinks Trump would stop using that word is, well, I know what Trump would call them.
It’s his word, he is just taking it back to empower himself.
