• Automated_Footprint
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    1 year ago

    How can it even be a slur? I don’t get it. People may use gay or trans or as an insult. But that doesn’t make it a slur right. So how this word can?

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      1 year ago

      You’re right to be confused, Elon’s post is very silly on many levels, one of which being that considering a word to be mean doesn’t make it a slur.

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      1 year ago

      It can’t and that’s the joke here

      Kids on xbox live are known to throw around slurs to win arguments, especially in cod. Sorry to have confused ya