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?
They basically said because “moron” was once a scientific term (and people opposed it’s use as an insult back in the day too) it was fine to keep doing it indefinitely…
That just leads to an endless cycle where no one is happy, or they could just get creative with their insults.
Like, the whole “debate” is driven by people who aren’t smart enough to come up with original insults on their own, so they have to resort to offensive language to “shock” people with their lack of empathy.
There’s a certain kind of irony to that, but the people advocating for using recent medical terms as insults will never noticed it