Musk’s latest attempt to stomp his feet and whine is a perfect example of someone who has never been marginalized creating a phony sense of marginalization so he can feel free to continue marginalizing others.
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The intent and desire here is our full erasure.” Musk is offering schoolyard-level nonsense and hoping it passes as a righteous argument It is necessary to identifying and describing us. Musk’s mucking about with “cisgender” is a painfully transparent dig at the transgender community – if you treat “cisgender” as negative, you’re implying the word “transgender” or other words that express gender identity are also bad.Įlanor Broker, a writer and civil rights attorney, responded to the “cisgender is a slur” nonsense in a tweet: “Not only is cis not a slur, it’s a necessary corollary to the recognition of trans people as a distinct subset of people. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.- Elon Musk June 21, 2023 Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.
I’m a straight, white, cisgender man (I don’t consider any of those words slurs) who thinks Twitter advertisers and Tesla stock owners might want to check in on the increasingly weird man-boy helming both companies, the one crying “Free Speech!” while threatening to suspend people who use a neutral, broadly accepted and necessary word. That’s doesn’t sound particularly slur-ish, but apparently if you’re rich and childish enough, you get to call the shots, so who am I to argue? Elon Musk loves free speech as long as it's speech he approves of This came as news to most people, as the word “cisgender,” according to Merriam-Webster, simply means: “of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.” The owner of one of the largest social media megaphones on the planet issued the following edict via tweet this week: "The words 'cis' or 'cisgender' are considered slurs on this platform." In the latest episode of “Wealthy White Dudes Get Their Tender Feelings Hurt By An Adjective” self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist Elon Musk has decided the word “cisgender” is a slur.
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