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The (arguably) richest guy in the world is starting pride month by stating he will financially bankroll the trans genocide attempt. This seems potentially much more dangerous than even elected officials like DeSantis becoming president, as Elon can theoretically just buy a group of politicians to carry out his vision. Not just in the USA either, anywhere where politicians can be bought is at risk of this ideology being exported to their nations. Am I wrong here? This seems like a massive risk for the trans community.
How progressive people can see stuff like this and still happily feed his social network with content and engagement I’ll never know.
Yeah it’s hit a point where I don’t even click on Twitter links anymore. If I wanted to see a bunch of bigots pushed to top of every single popular tweet I’d just use gab
it’s kind of amazing just how true it is that anybody with a blue checkmark is basically a reactionary now. i have never seen someone sporting the mark with good takes anywhere on the site since it became cringe to have one, so the effect of promoting their replies is making the site completely unusable if you aren’t a sickeningly hateful person
it’s so bad. i literally will just go and find an alternative link to something to avoid it and have asked my friends to stop sending me tweets. i deleted both accounts a few months ago and I feel like I left at the perfect time
It was only a matter of time before he said something like this, he’s been going harder and harder right since he bought twitter.
Just when you think you couldn’t hate him any more … or, just when you think he couldn’t be more ignorant and stupid?
Elon musk is a piece of shit
The thing that people on the right don’t seem to understand is gender affirming care is widely available/accepted for cisgender people, but they start screaming when it involves trans folks (and call it grooming). By Elon’s logic, you should criminalize doctors that provide gender affirming care to anyone.
I am exposing my ignorance here, but can you explain to me what gender affirming care for cis people consists of?
https://theconversation.com/gender-affirming-care-has-a-long-history-in-the-us-and-not-just-for-transgender-people-201752
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/gender-affirming-care-isnt-just-for-trans-people-rcna54651tl;dr: Anything from estrogen for women experiencing menopause, to prescribing hormones for those who have developed secondary sex characteristics that don’t match their AGAB, but are still otherwise cisgender.
I used to feel supportive of this guy and his efforts with SpaceX even if he is an oligarch. Now everytime he speaks he reveals another sliver of his actual, corrupt, morally bankrupt and entitled self.
I remember learning about him a few years ago through SpaceX and then Tesla and being like: “Huh. Someone with money helping advance science.”
Fast forward to today, and every time I see his name in an article, I’m expecting it to be associated with some dumb stuff he’s said or done. And most of the time that expectation is correct.
Good thing he has 0 power when it comes to legislation and we live in a world where he doesn’t have a fucking say in other people’s lives.
He has money, though. He can lobby for this shit.
yeah, this is a big worry (in the same way J.K. Rowling is)–people of this magnitude and influence in society can’t really be ignored in full, because a lot of people might be swayed by their significance alone into thinking something they believe is acceptable. Elon is more impulsive and, i dunno, eclectic? than Rowling, so that might temper his efficacy or even desire to do this, but it’d still be really bad if he actually started doing this because he can presumably manufacture an astonishing amount of consent if he wants to do that. far more than Rowling can, also.
I used to have enormous respect for Rowling since she was one of the only (if not the only?) billionaires to donate so much money to charity that she’s no longer a billionaire. That’s great, and if every billionaire did that the world would be a much better place. And of course I grew up with Harry Potter.
And I remember when I first heard about her views on trans people, there was a moment where I was like “Wait she’s a good person though, right? Is she actually onto something here?” Which led to me reading way more about her views than I otherwise would have.
And of course she’s not onto anything and is just being a TERF, and I wish she would just swallow her pride and admit she’s wrong and apologize, but the point is: yes, these people have a lot of influence and can’t be ignored. There are probably people who, like me, respected Rowling, but then didn’t bother to follow up and have been led down an anti-trans path.
Influential people need to be called out on their shit.
There are so many problems on display here.
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Musk thinks his medical opinion is informed and important enough to overrule doctors treating individual kids.
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This news organization seems to think his uneducated opinion is important enough to report on.
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They’re misreporting what he said anyway. They’re conflating the very broad term of gender affirming care, with his more specific objection to nonreversible treatments.
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The lack of informed nuance in both Musk’s opinion and the reporting here, is why this shouldn’t be spread accept to discredit both the article and Musk.
Good take. As much as one can disagree with Musks opinions, this ‘news article’ is an offense to the profession of journalism.
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This guy is becoming more and more dislikable every day.
I think he is well past the point of just “dislikable”, the guy is just straight up malicious
yeah his positions approach “actively, morally reprehensible” at this point, in my judgement
