Highly recommend checking the full article too, it's fantastic!
https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/huge-news-for-gamers-elon-musk-has-invented-a-new-slur/
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Oh my god that’s amazing thank you
“Would you pass me the oar, cisgender Jim?”
I will never understand how the word cis or cisgender is a slur. If your a cisgender then you are literally a cisgender. I am a cisgender male, plane and simple
They consider themselves the "default" aka the only ones who are not "the others" and thus not wrong about everything up to and including existing.
They are also snowflakes who can't cope with their bigoted worldview being questioned in any way without playing the innocent martyr, so anything that implies that their perspective isn't the only legitimate one is considered viciously evil.
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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.
blue check is a slur 😤
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