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Elon Musk triples down on making Twitter terrible for trans people (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by xuxebiko@kbin.social to c/worldnews@kbin.social

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Musk declared that "cisgender" — meaning "not transgender" — is now considered a slur on the social network.

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[–] vercimusart@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

This is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen lately, what a shitshow. Let’s make “straight” a slur next.

[–] Generic-Disposable@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Why are people still on Twitter?

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Get this... Musk believes not only that he can just will a change to a word in a massively spoken language, but that the word, which is a term for "straight", should be offensive to everyone. Why does Elon Musk hate straight people? The dude is a total clown.

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Apparently Musk hasn't considered the number of cisgendered allies to the trans* community who are willing to describe themselves as cis/cisgendered.

Bastion of free speech McGee.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh he's such an idiot.

[–] syrupwaffle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

[–] Brock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why couldn’t he just be in the sub? Ugh.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad I'm now here, and not there.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd like to point out that restricting language is one of the tenants of fascism.

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.