Elon Musk's slurs against disabled people anger them and their advocates. They're speaking out.

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?

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    But without it, your post very much was just another person using the word as though it was fine to say and weird that people wouldn’t say it.

    No, that’s something that came entirely from you. My comment merely pointed out a failure of the article to say what it was talking about.

    It’s important to be careful when communicating with others about issues that feed strong emotions in us. It’s all too easy to project meaning that isn’t there, and mistakenly vilify someone based on our own biases.

    And with it being at -5 when I posted, I wasn’t the only one that read it that way.

    Yes, and at least some of that was surely due to the influence of your comment.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect

    You even felt you needed to correct it after I left.

    That’s faulty reasoning. What I added was not a correction, but an explicit statement of what should have been obvious to a reader who wasn’t looking for a quarrel. In other words, I went the extra mile to do the reader’s job for them. My addendum doesn’t imply fault in the original.

    I did this only because I’m familiar with the way misguided replies can lead to toxic snowballs on web forums, and I noticed that your comment had the potential to start one.

    In retrospect, with the added context, I can see what you originally meant.

    A simple “I’m sorry for mistakenly chiding you” would have sufficed here. Good day.