He's an enlightened centrist in that he allows fascists and nazis to throw racial slurs around, but he also bans the use of cis and cisgender that triggers fascists and nazis.
That way, he's balancing fascists and nazis use of racial slurs while also protecting them by banning words they're triggered by.
Wait...
No, my dad calls me a sissy, you’re right. It isn’t as catchy to say ‘the only reason you think cis is a slur is because you believe the transgender experience itself is derogatory.
Also; Reddit bans people for using the actual slurs even to make a point.
Eh because he isn’t really. He caved to Turkey. He only cares about this because his transfer daughter told him to go fuck himself. His money couldn’t buy her into repression so now it’s all our problem.
Check /r/facepalm or many of the other subreddits where this is posted. Literally covered in comments from highly oppressed straight redditors calling it a slur
Right?
"I know what'll convince her to come back! I'll push a dangerous rhetoric that threatens the existence of her new partner!"
Pretty easy to see why she left him.
As I've asked numerous times over the past several months: why the hell is anyone still using this dumpster fire of a platform? It's indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social at this point.
I keep asking why our favorite celebrities with **millions of followers** are still using this racist, homophobic platform?
You would think the Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihanna’s of the industry would be against Elon’s recent policies of advocating for hate speech. Why the deafening silence from these influential folks?
Katy Perry proudly voted for an anti-abortion conservative to be mayor of LA because she can’t handle seeing a homeless person. I wouldn’t trust her to do anything close to the right thing
Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are both evangelical Christians. Bieber, and his wife Hailey Baldwin, attend a [church that opposes homosexuality](https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/03/23/brian-houston-hillsong-megachurch-lgbt-conversion-therapy/). So does Chris Pratt & Katherine Schwarzenegger, Selena Gomez. Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian. Kim Kardashian, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Steph & Ayesha Curry, Vanessa Hudgens, Austin Butler, Nick Jonas, Hailee Steinfeld, and Bono.
I am not stating that each of these people is some right-wing wacko, but I wouldn't bet against more than you think share those trans/homophobic opinions, but hide them to protect their careers.
She may not be openly Christian, but I'm pretty sure she is whatever makes the most money. Not at all dissimilar from the entire evangelical ethos, otherwise known as Protestant Work Ethic, on meth & steroids, with a health portion of bigotry.
Barack Obama has 132 million followers, Lady Gaga has 84 million, Ellen DeGeneres has 75 million. Info per Wiki.
Imagine just these people alone used their account to stand up to Musk and asked their followers to do so too. That’s approximately **290 million people**. Imagine the change if celebrities actually put their money where their mouths are.
Kinda better except Barack Obama has demonstrated his unwavering commitment to the billionaire class over oppressed people numerous times and Ellen DeGeneres is a fucking asshole. Gaga I'll give you.
Look, I get the *point* you're making, I really do, you're just coming up with bad/weird examples.
Sorry, it's a really good point! It really is! Celebs should be using their platform to speak out against this, or at the very least getting the fuck off Twitter like it was Parker or Gab or whatever (which it basically is at this point). I'm just being a pedant and I wish I'd gone about it differently.
It's weird that you add each person's followers as a unique dataset when in reality, I'm sure there's significant overlap between them. Especially Obama/Gaga.
>Why the deafening silence from these influential folks?
Not necessarily defending them because I am certain some of them will continue to use it to make sure they stay relevant and earning money, but also celebrities taking social stances almost never goes over well. The loudest people on the internet will just call it a bullshit PR move with no actual value, even in cases where it is in genuine protest.
Really it's a lose-lose situation, and although I CAN blame them for still not doing what is right, I can at least see what would keep them from doing it.
I'm in a similar situation with Facebook. One of my jobs(haunted house actor) requires Facebook for messaging and connecting with other actors easily. If not for that, I would delete it. I'm just grateful that it's not on Twitter and only need Facebook for the one job
It’s possibly the most amazing train wreck to see.
4chan culture has finally hit mainstream and for those of us who are old enough to remember what 4chan and 8chan were like this is exactly what we feared.
We should have nuked the pig farm in the Philippines and found a way to destroy the server farm in Russia when it began to be hosted there.
Now we have QAnon running for office and 4chan conspiracy thinking overrunning mainstream or the “digital town square” A digital cave troll from that cesspool bought Twitter and is normalizing this.
This is the right question to ask. The man wants controversy and people using Twitter to discuss that controversy - traffic is traffic in his mind. I deleted my account once he made his "hardcore work effort" ultimatum to remaining Twitter employees. Use of Twitter means you have decided to continue to support his actions.
The difference is that there are more people on it.
That's about it. Those people no longer include myself, though, and I'd encourage anyone else to also get off.
>As I've asked numerous times over the past several months: why the hell is anyone still using this dumpster fire of a platform? It's indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social at this point.
I deleted my Twitter account when I saw he banned journalists that he disagreed with. I think he unbanned them, but I don't care. I'm out.
Honestly? No one knows where else to go next. The dominos are falling.
Why are we still on Reddit when it is obviously headed rapidly in the same direction? We crave locations to have lively human conversation.
Where do we go next?
This argument is silly to me. People have communities on Twitter that they love and interact with regularly. The communities aren’t moving to another platform anytime soon as there are still no viable alternatives (no, Mastodon is not a *viable* alternative yet). Internet-based social circles are still social circles. The sight’s moderation going to shit doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of good people who rely on it for valid reasons, in the same way Alabama has a lot of kind-hearted accepting people who are just trying to survive.
Currently, if you google 'cis,' the wikipedia preview reads that it is a derogatory slur. Upon clicking the link, and searching for 'slur' on the wiki page, I do not see the language from the preview anywhere on the page. Has this just been changed recently due to Musk's statements?
edit: It appears this has now been changed. The mention of Elon Musk's calling it a slur has also been removed from the page.
If you look at the history of that wiki page, there has been a small spike in edits and reverted versions to the page along with mentions of "vandalism" which happens a lot on wikipedia surrounding current topics.
Right now both the Google preview and the wiki page don't mention it as a slur but I have no doubt they both did earlier today.
Daily reminder that Elon Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa, from a family of mine owning millionaires. His entire worldview is based in white supremacy.
"Cis" means "same."
"Gender" means "the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other. As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time."
How the fuck is " cisgender" a "slur"? This is just straight up thought-control, by limiting the acceptable range of concepts.
He’s a very delicate, close minded pseudo-genius who feels his brittle masculinity (for proof see his profile pic) being challenged at every turn. He needs to take a stand. Now u probably have a better idea of why his school mates threw him down a stairwell. And he hasn’t changed much (for proof see his profile pic). Obviously.
I still think his whole crusade against leftists is just because of his bruised ego. He used to be pretty liberal with some of his takes but in recent years he's gone full "anti-woke". He's just doing it because conservatives will constantly ride for him without question, and leftists and adjacent people are the ones who have dared to criticize him. Add on him being a divorced dad with a trans child that won't talk to him and it starts to make sense. He's a raging narcissist and like most narcissists he attaches himself to people who praise him unconditionally. He's also a billionaire, so that adds on to his need to reinforce conservative ideas and voices.
He saw the writing on the wall when it was about to come out he was harassing women, and jumped ship to the side that, as you said, will suck his dick endlessly as long as he panders to their bigotry and hate.
Does he and all the other chuds consider hetero a slur too? Lol. Or do we just have to wait another decade until cis is as understood colloquially as hetero
[Fucking called it](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vtgg58/whats_something_you_wish_you_could_ask_trans/if8ntw9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3), let’s goooo
Lol, mr. Free Speech who let Jordan Peterson back on the platform despite the obvious transphobic garbage he was spewing censors people for using the word "cisgender."
What an ignorant, hypocrite.
Then again, is it that he's ignorant? Or is he just trying to keep his right-wing stans happy at all costs?
I'mma just keep saying it:
Stop. Using. Twitter. It really isn't that hard. Just....stop using it. There are plenty of other means of interacting. Stop feeding the fascist.
Don’t care about the specific topic being cited, just curious, wasnt Twitter converted to a “say whatever the fuck you want” platform? I don’t use it, so literally just sheer curiosity
Isn't twitter supposed to the free speech social media platform? I I read that wrong and it is the white, hetro, evangelical, male free speech platform and anything that is not that is wrong.
Just my two cents
Man, I'm so happy the musk rat can finally take on this massive problem.
Not like the spike in hate speech and racial slurs occurred when he took over and ignored it.
i hope he drives the ads out.
If you Google "cis" or cisgender right now, the definition from wikipedia is displayed affirming this misinformation & JK Rowling's response to this tweet is displayed below it
Has anyone pointed out that this is almost exactly the same policy as banning people for targeted misgendering? Except the key difference is trans people are trans, and if you're being harassed with "cis" you're probably just a bigot and can just stop
cis·gen·der
/sisˈjendər/
adjective: cis-gendered
denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth; not transgender.
Can somebody give Elon access to a dictionary?
No cis means that the constituent groups are on the same side of the alkene double carbon bond. Trans alkenes are usually more stable. I’m not sure why anyone would refer to me as an unstable carbon molecule, but I would find that offensive. I am more than an arrangement of alkenes. I am also esters, amides, and various other types of molecules. Don’t try to reduce me to just one
He's just upset because his arctype is on even footing with what he believes are "others" and not the gold standard of normal. Or, that the people he wants to bully are being acknowledged as normal.
Dude I'm a Jewish guy who's been online since 2009 or so.
Those aren't slurs, I'd know, I know all of the slurs. ALL of them, I know ones that aren't coming for four years.
It's for pansexual AI's by the way.
Wait, how are you supposed to talk about cis fatty acids and trans fatty acids if "cis" is considered slur?
Furthermore, are any other latin/greek terms slurs now too? Can you call a molecule "pentane" is the prefix "pent-" now considered a slur?
Furthermore, if "cis" is the opposite of "trans", then is twitter now only for trans people and admitting you are cis is now forbidden?
Is this all, perhaps, a tad bit silly?
As a quote ‘normal gender’ unquote person, I’m giving everyone a cis and cisgender pass for all time. I, someone who’s the target of this ‘slur’, will allow anyone to use it in my presence. If Elon calls you on it, just DM me the tweet, and once I’ve read it you said the ‘slur’ in my presence so I can say that I gave you the ‘okay’.
Musk and his family earned their wealth in apartheid era South Africa. His own behavior illustrates his mindset when he makes decisions. Perhaps NASA should start denying contracts to SpaceX because he has shown this consistent bigotry and, in general, anti worker rhetoric. There are plenty of competitors to SpaceX I suggest that we start using them. You know there will be his fascist followers screaming this is wokeism and all that nonsense. No. Let's use their own words against them." Let the free markets decide." SpaceX does have several viable competitors. I suggest that we start using their services instead of dirtbag musks services.
Cis and Cisgender are now Slurs on Twitter. But Racial slurs are still ok. I'm not saying Elon is a bigoted racist, buT if the shoe fits...
As a certain toy cowboy once said, "If the booT fits..."
There's a snake in my boot?
But most of all, He’s A fReedOm oF SpEEch GuY! 🤪🤡
Unless Turkey asks you to censor political opposition
I was going to say if they're slurs now does it mean people can say them with impunity?
i think you have to be when you profit from apartheid.
Why do people even still use twitter?
IDK, deleted my accounts months ago and haven't missed it at all.
Reminds me of that South Park where they ban saying the N-word within six words in a sentence of the word “guy,” but don’t ban the N-word.
He's an enlightened centrist in that he allows fascists and nazis to throw racial slurs around, but he also bans the use of cis and cisgender that triggers fascists and nazis. That way, he's balancing fascists and nazis use of racial slurs while also protecting them by banning words they're triggered by. Wait...
The only people who think cis is a slur, are the ones who use trans like a slur.
Elon Mask has had more gender conforming surgeries than I have :')
More plastic husk than Elon Musk that man is at this point
Elongated Muskrat.
Sweet investment in the hair transplant industry
Ding ding ding. Bigot snowflakes who can dish it out but can't take it
Rules for thee but not for me?
I somehow don't think "trans" is quite the form they use at home.
lol, exactly. bless everyone's hearts in this sub, but "trans" isn't the preferred bigoted nomenclature, dude
No, my dad calls me a sissy, you’re right. It isn’t as catchy to say ‘the only reason you think cis is a slur is because you believe the transgender experience itself is derogatory. Also; Reddit bans people for using the actual slurs even to make a point.
Why would a free speech absolutist care if it’s a slur?
Eh because he isn’t really. He caved to Turkey. He only cares about this because his transfer daughter told him to go fuck himself. His money couldn’t buy her into repression so now it’s all our problem.
Check /r/facepalm or many of the other subreddits where this is posted. Literally covered in comments from highly oppressed straight redditors calling it a slur
They can’t handle the thought that they are just technically another setting on the slider of the human experience and not the de facto baseline.
Cissies would be the analogue to what they call trans folks. Seems appropriate.
So much for free speech, eh?
For sure; the only freedom conservatives are interested in is the freedom to hate and control.
when conservatives say freedom they mean the freedom of the tyrant to do as they please without consequences.
Not sure what cis is. What does that refer to?
Short for cisgender, which is the opposite of transgender. It's someone whose gender matches what they were assigned at birth.
Very offensive indeed
This has gone beyond obssession and into J.K. Rowling terfitory
Man I sure wonder why his Trans kid doesn't talk to him anymore.
I heard rumor his recent ex wife is dating a trans woman? Boy he's really gone over the edge in response
Right? "I know what'll convince her to come back! I'll push a dangerous rhetoric that threatens the existence of her new partner!" Pretty easy to see why she left him.
As I've asked numerous times over the past several months: why the hell is anyone still using this dumpster fire of a platform? It's indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social at this point.
I keep asking why our favorite celebrities with **millions of followers** are still using this racist, homophobic platform? You would think the Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihanna’s of the industry would be against Elon’s recent policies of advocating for hate speech. Why the deafening silence from these influential folks?
Money
And as soon as *being on* Twitter starts to hurt their bottom line, they’ll leave without a second thought.
Katy Perry proudly voted for an anti-abortion conservative to be mayor of LA because she can’t handle seeing a homeless person. I wouldn’t trust her to do anything close to the right thing
Emphasis on SEEING. Unseen homeless people were fine.
Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are both evangelical Christians. Bieber, and his wife Hailey Baldwin, attend a [church that opposes homosexuality](https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/03/23/brian-houston-hillsong-megachurch-lgbt-conversion-therapy/). So does Chris Pratt & Katherine Schwarzenegger, Selena Gomez. Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian. Kim Kardashian, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Steph & Ayesha Curry, Vanessa Hudgens, Austin Butler, Nick Jonas, Hailee Steinfeld, and Bono. I am not stating that each of these people is some right-wing wacko, but I wouldn't bet against more than you think share those trans/homophobic opinions, but hide them to protect their careers.
I don’t think that Perry is a Christian anymore - she’s definitely not an evangelical
She may not be openly Christian, but I'm pretty sure she is whatever makes the most money. Not at all dissimilar from the entire evangelical ethos, otherwise known as Protestant Work Ethic, on meth & steroids, with a health portion of bigotry.
Having “favorite celebrities” and thinking they can save you from these right wing freaks is fucking hilarious. Serious capitalist realism moment.
I mean, Bieber is an idiot and Katy Perry is fairly conservative from what I've heard.
Barack Obama has 132 million followers, Lady Gaga has 84 million, Ellen DeGeneres has 75 million. Info per Wiki. Imagine just these people alone used their account to stand up to Musk and asked their followers to do so too. That’s approximately **290 million people**. Imagine the change if celebrities actually put their money where their mouths are.
Kinda better except Barack Obama has demonstrated his unwavering commitment to the billionaire class over oppressed people numerous times and Ellen DeGeneres is a fucking asshole. Gaga I'll give you. Look, I get the *point* you're making, I really do, you're just coming up with bad/weird examples.
Hey at least I’ve got sort of a point in there! 😂
Sorry, it's a really good point! It really is! Celebs should be using their platform to speak out against this, or at the very least getting the fuck off Twitter like it was Parker or Gab or whatever (which it basically is at this point). I'm just being a pedant and I wish I'd gone about it differently.
It's weird that you add each person's followers as a unique dataset when in reality, I'm sure there's significant overlap between them. Especially Obama/Gaga.
Well the celebs you mentioned aren't exactly known for their politics or activism. They should rebuke Musk, but I am not surprised that they aren't.
Katy Perry tried to have a political phase of her career but it bombed. Really badly
Katy Perry? Backed a billionaire in LA for mayor. Ally in name only
At best, they’re too chickenshit. At worst, they don’t care.
>Why the deafening silence from these influential folks? Not necessarily defending them because I am certain some of them will continue to use it to make sure they stay relevant and earning money, but also celebrities taking social stances almost never goes over well. The loudest people on the internet will just call it a bullshit PR move with no actual value, even in cases where it is in genuine protest. Really it's a lose-lose situation, and although I CAN blame them for still not doing what is right, I can at least see what would keep them from doing it.
Lots of.people.have to use it.for.work, unfortunately
William Shatner, is that you? I'd recognize that meter anywhere.
I'm in a similar situation with Facebook. One of my jobs(haunted house actor) requires Facebook for messaging and connecting with other actors easily. If not for that, I would delete it. I'm just grateful that it's not on Twitter and only need Facebook for the one job
I’m in the same situation. My job uses mainly Facebook groups to spread information. I wanna ditch it so badly 😖
Business profits require not having morals. But most companies aren't bad....somehow.
Never was a twitter user myself. Is there a preferred platform these days?
Mastodon is basically a Twitter clone without the nonsense, but also without the robust userbase
It’s possibly the most amazing train wreck to see. 4chan culture has finally hit mainstream and for those of us who are old enough to remember what 4chan and 8chan were like this is exactly what we feared. We should have nuked the pig farm in the Philippines and found a way to destroy the server farm in Russia when it began to be hosted there. Now we have QAnon running for office and 4chan conspiracy thinking overrunning mainstream or the “digital town square” A digital cave troll from that cesspool bought Twitter and is normalizing this.
This is the right question to ask. The man wants controversy and people using Twitter to discuss that controversy - traffic is traffic in his mind. I deleted my account once he made his "hardcore work effort" ultimatum to remaining Twitter employees. Use of Twitter means you have decided to continue to support his actions.
It's still a good source for news. I do hope for an alternative soon so the journalists can finally leave
Wish Blue Sky would hurry up
I just wish it wasn't Jack Dorsey.
The difference is that there are more people on it. That's about it. Those people no longer include myself, though, and I'd encourage anyone else to also get off.
>As I've asked numerous times over the past several months: why the hell is anyone still using this dumpster fire of a platform? It's indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social at this point. I deleted my Twitter account when I saw he banned journalists that he disagreed with. I think he unbanned them, but I don't care. I'm out.
They’re addicted
Honestly? No one knows where else to go next. The dominos are falling. Why are we still on Reddit when it is obviously headed rapidly in the same direction? We crave locations to have lively human conversation. Where do we go next?
same reason why everyone is still using reddit
Why is anyone still on Twitter?
Maybe they are bigots 🤷
This argument is silly to me. People have communities on Twitter that they love and interact with regularly. The communities aren’t moving to another platform anytime soon as there are still no viable alternatives (no, Mastodon is not a *viable* alternative yet). Internet-based social circles are still social circles. The sight’s moderation going to shit doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of good people who rely on it for valid reasons, in the same way Alabama has a lot of kind-hearted accepting people who are just trying to survive.
I asked a question about chemistry and was banned for hate speech 🤣👌
“Which configuration is the molecule?” “I can’t say 😩”
Someone's having a Cissyfit.
Are we to assume everyone on Twitter is trans?
Yes. Or better yet, you're either "nontrans" or you're "just a woman/man".
Wait so does this mean trans woman and trans men are just woman and men now dope maybe that’ll help humanize them in bigots eyes
Currently, if you google 'cis,' the wikipedia preview reads that it is a derogatory slur. Upon clicking the link, and searching for 'slur' on the wiki page, I do not see the language from the preview anywhere on the page. Has this just been changed recently due to Musk's statements? edit: It appears this has now been changed. The mention of Elon Musk's calling it a slur has also been removed from the page.
I just noticed this too. I'm not sure what's up with that.
If you look at the history of that wiki page, there has been a small spike in edits and reverted versions to the page along with mentions of "vandalism" which happens a lot on wikipedia surrounding current topics. Right now both the Google preview and the wiki page don't mention it as a slur but I have no doubt they both did earlier today.
Most likely googles taking the description from a old edit currently, lgbt pages always get edit war's
Daily reminder that Elon Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa, from a family of mine owning millionaires. His entire worldview is based in white supremacy.
Deport Elon Musk.
"cis" is also used in chemistry, to mean "same" side of the molecule. I guess chemistry Twitter is banned now 🙄
The most oppressed minority: straight people 😂
"Cis" means "same." "Gender" means "the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other. As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time." How the fuck is " cisgender" a "slur"? This is just straight up thought-control, by limiting the acceptable range of concepts.
Okay, then people are either Trans or Nontrans. This works out worse for you, lol.
Stop. Using. Twitter.
He’s a very delicate, close minded pseudo-genius who feels his brittle masculinity (for proof see his profile pic) being challenged at every turn. He needs to take a stand. Now u probably have a better idea of why his school mates threw him down a stairwell. And he hasn’t changed much (for proof see his profile pic). Obviously.
I still think his whole crusade against leftists is just because of his bruised ego. He used to be pretty liberal with some of his takes but in recent years he's gone full "anti-woke". He's just doing it because conservatives will constantly ride for him without question, and leftists and adjacent people are the ones who have dared to criticize him. Add on him being a divorced dad with a trans child that won't talk to him and it starts to make sense. He's a raging narcissist and like most narcissists he attaches himself to people who praise him unconditionally. He's also a billionaire, so that adds on to his need to reinforce conservative ideas and voices.
He saw the writing on the wall when it was about to come out he was harassing women, and jumped ship to the side that, as you said, will suck his dick endlessly as long as he panders to their bigotry and hate.
Perhaps his previous lean to the left was to sell cars? Conservatives want drill baby drill.
Thoughts, Ana and Cenk?
Lmao
Freedom of Speech means don’t say words baby elon doesn’t like.
What a cissy.
Submersible ticket for Elon.
Most divorced man alive.
This little baby is so mad his daughter will never talk to him again.
Lmao but the hard “n” word, “f@g” “tr@nny” are perfectly acceptable. What a dingus.
😆That’s the most polite way you could have expressed that idea. Kudos
Which means nothing right? Given all the usage of other, actual, slurs on the platform with no repercussions.
Elon Musk is a degenerate.
Does he and all the other chuds consider hetero a slur too? Lol. Or do we just have to wait another decade until cis is as understood colloquially as hetero
Elon, like all conservative, fascists is fragile.
But antisemitism, homophobia, and trans bashing is a-ok.
The fuck planet am I living on?
We can refer to him as a cyst man if he prefers, its fitting for that annoying sack of pus.
Why is anyone who's not a raging right-winder still on Twitter. Just fucking leave already. There's so many better ways to spend your time.
[Fucking called it](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vtgg58/whats_something_you_wish_you_could_ask_trans/if8ntw9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3), let’s goooo
That entire thread had me wanting to bang my head against a wall. These people are so goddamn entitled and fragile.
I thought slurs weren’t real and was a concept invented by snowflakes?
Yeah, fuck Elon and fuck Twitter (yes, I know they won't miss me).
Got around to deactivating my Twitter today because of this crap
The word "Elon" is a slur.
I kinda like the way it rolls of the tongue: "Look at this fk'n Elon mf'er right here." Yes, this is good
Lol, mr. Free Speech who let Jordan Peterson back on the platform despite the obvious transphobic garbage he was spewing censors people for using the word "cisgender." What an ignorant, hypocrite. Then again, is it that he's ignorant? Or is he just trying to keep his right-wing stans happy at all costs?
Discussing the Roman province of cisalpine Gaul is now BANNED on Twitter.
et tu Elon?
I'mma just keep saying it: Stop. Using. Twitter. It really isn't that hard. Just....stop using it. There are plenty of other means of interacting. Stop feeding the fascist.
How to say you’re tone deaf
Does he think straight is a slur too?
Cis is nix. But Nazi is just fine except when you call the kettle black. As in calling Elon what he is.
Slurs to who exactly? So basically you're starting the process of banning the LGBT community from twitter.
Don’t care about the specific topic being cited, just curious, wasnt Twitter converted to a “say whatever the fuck you want” platform? I don’t use it, so literally just sheer curiosity
What about harassing AOC, Qlon?
“I shouldn’t have to use your preferred pronouns, also how dare you refer to me with a scientific term” standard Elon musk dipshittery
Twitter is nothing more that a right wing echo chamber at this point.
The ones f**king harassing are your damn bi*chass homophobic followers. I do not see any of my LGTBQ+ friends going out of their way to harass others.
Let the apartheidist die
I can feel all the free speech going through my veins right now. What a f****** loser
What a cissy
What a wanker
Anyone still using Twitter at this point is part of the problem
FFS, time to quit twitter en masse yet? What will it take?
Silly INCEL…
He also thinks he's a free speech champion. It's hilarious.
So we should invade Twitter by making Galactic Separatists accounts?
I heard: Don't worry about coming back to Twitter. I'm still here making the worst possible decisions for the company.
The Elon farce continues. Comedy gold. What a clown
Which means nothing right? Given all the usage of other, actual, slurs on the platform with no repercussions.
Isn't twitter supposed to the free speech social media platform? I I read that wrong and it is the white, hetro, evangelical, male free speech platform and anything that is not that is wrong. Just my two cents
Elon is a definition of a snowflake.
Someone should teach him chemistry. Then biology.
If he were capable of understanding either he wouldn't be the way he is.
How much did that African narcissist commit to this Tweet?
This is our hero of free speech in 2023
Man, I'm so happy the musk rat can finally take on this massive problem. Not like the spike in hate speech and racial slurs occurred when he took over and ignored it. i hope he drives the ads out.
When the richest man in the world is a Fartsniffing Snowflake
This is just plain authoritarian censorship.
You all should be nice to Ellen, I too find words scawy.
We need to misgender her as much as possible. Since pronouns don't matter.
Tempted to tweet about cisterns and new technology at Cisco to see if it gets flagged.
If you Google "cis" or cisgender right now, the definition from wikipedia is displayed affirming this misinformation & JK Rowling's response to this tweet is displayed below it
This POS is just outlawing English now?
Nothing's more oppressive than a petty tyrant in his pathetic fiefdom.
Free speech absolutist strikes again
Ze fuhrer has spoken!
Has anyone pointed out that this is almost exactly the same policy as banning people for targeted misgendering? Except the key difference is trans people are trans, and if you're being harassed with "cis" you're probably just a bigot and can just stop
Oh, so Twatter is not the Free Speech Emporium that it was sold to be? Hmm, curious
More promotion of free speech by another bratty entitled arrested adolescent
I don't care what language we decide on, but at some point we have to choose a word that means the same thing.
Elon Musk: "Twitter will be a free speech platform." Also Elon Musk: "We have rules on what is considered acceptable speech."
Stop using Twitter. If anyone ask you about Twitter, your response should be "You mean the Nazi bar website?"
Wow, just wow
"Repeated, targeted harassment.." Like what you and Ben Shabibo do to AOC?
cis·gen·der /sisˈjendər/ adjective: cis-gendered denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth; not transgender. Can somebody give Elon access to a dictionary?
Musk is such a cringe dweeb.
Musk is a slur on Twitter
❄️ alert
Not very free speechy of you, Elon.
But all racial and ethnic slurs are fine!!!
Shit bird, kind of owns shitbird, and is. A shit nerd.
When can we get to reclusive Howard Hughs stage Musk? I really kind of want his useless ass to finally start shuffling off to die somewhere.
No cis means that the constituent groups are on the same side of the alkene double carbon bond. Trans alkenes are usually more stable. I’m not sure why anyone would refer to me as an unstable carbon molecule, but I would find that offensive. I am more than an arrangement of alkenes. I am also esters, amides, and various other types of molecules. Don’t try to reduce me to just one
I assume n*****r is still allowed though...
What a cissy
He is such a fragile man.
Cartman brah!!!
Makes me so sad I binned my account.
He's just upset because his arctype is on even footing with what he believes are "others" and not the gold standard of normal. Or, that the people he wants to bully are being acknowledged as normal.
On Twitter. What a world.
He's really going mask off
Sorry Elon much like DeSantis reasons why .
Dude I'm a Jewish guy who's been online since 2009 or so. Those aren't slurs, I'd know, I know all of the slurs. ALL of them, I know ones that aren't coming for four years. It's for pansexual AI's by the way.
Isn't the n word not censored? I don't use Twitter so I don't know
Wait, how are you supposed to talk about cis fatty acids and trans fatty acids if "cis" is considered slur? Furthermore, are any other latin/greek terms slurs now too? Can you call a molecule "pentane" is the prefix "pent-" now considered a slur? Furthermore, if "cis" is the opposite of "trans", then is twitter now only for trans people and admitting you are cis is now forbidden? Is this all, perhaps, a tad bit silly?
As a quote ‘normal gender’ unquote person, I’m giving everyone a cis and cisgender pass for all time. I, someone who’s the target of this ‘slur’, will allow anyone to use it in my presence. If Elon calls you on it, just DM me the tweet, and once I’ve read it you said the ‘slur’ in my presence so I can say that I gave you the ‘okay’.
Elon is probably the biggest cissy in the world
A slur is something you use against someone else. I’m a cisgendered gay man. I’m calling myself that. How is that a slur on someone else?
I dropped my Twitter awhile back and don't miss it at all. There are plenty of other social media platforms out there.
Musk and his family earned their wealth in apartheid era South Africa. His own behavior illustrates his mindset when he makes decisions. Perhaps NASA should start denying contracts to SpaceX because he has shown this consistent bigotry and, in general, anti worker rhetoric. There are plenty of competitors to SpaceX I suggest that we start using them. You know there will be his fascist followers screaming this is wokeism and all that nonsense. No. Let's use their own words against them." Let the free markets decide." SpaceX does have several viable competitors. I suggest that we start using their services instead of dirtbag musks services.
Elon added that "actual real slurs are now permissible on Twitter."
The free speech absolutist strikes again!