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[–] Automated_Footprint@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 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.

[–] StarlightRose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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