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?
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.
the disabled are not retards just like the gays are not removeds
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.
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.
Isn’t he allowed to use this word just as black people have a pass using the N-word?
I wanna bet in a few months it’ll be racist slurs too.
Thats already allowed on Twitter. Though you will get in trouble for the word cis.
He’s self-diagnosing. It’s a cry for help.
“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.
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.”
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.”
Of course. Remember, he is projecting.
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.
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or it can be exactly the same as “moron”.
Because people keep using medical terms as insults necessitating the need for new medical terms without the connotation of insults…
So instead of just constantly making new medical terms so people can try a new insult, why not just fucking stop?
How is that difficult to understand?
It’s not “fear” it’s not “censorship” it’s not any of the things you’re whining about
It’s about stopping the process of turning medical terms into insults.
You have enough insults already, if you feel like you need more how about you make one up I stead of just using actual medical terms?
Why is thnkng so difficult for the people who insist on disparaging that population?
The funny thing about this whole conversation is I genuinely don’t know which population it’s supposed to be disparaging. (Also I’ll note I never saw the message you responded to, given it was mod removed on Lemmy it could be super toxic or it could be “I don’t like Linux that much”, but I assume the former)
Don’t get me wrong I know I could look it up, but it’s easier to just not care and go with the flow when I’m around folks in their 20s…and also not care and go with the flow when I’m around folks in their 50s.
They basically said because “moron” was once a scientific term (and people opposed it’s use as an insult back in the day too) it was fine to keep doing it indefinitely…
That just leads to an endless cycle where no one is happy, or they could just get creative with their insults.
Like, the whole “debate” is driven by people who aren’t smart enough to come up with original insults on their own, so they have to resort to offensive language to “shock” people with their lack of empathy.
There’s a certain kind of irony to that, but the people advocating for using recent medical terms as insults will never noticed it
It’ll be an extremely funny day when one of the racist children convince him to drop a hard R.
Big Balls, please, you have the power to do something great.
The dude is in desperate need of being flayed alive
Disability advocates seem unaware of what right-wingers mean when they complain about “free speech”. This is it.
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
“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.
