Elon Musk Declares ‘Cis’ and ‘Cisgender’ Are Slurs on Twitter
thewrap.comMusk said temporary suspensions will be the minimum penalty, leaving the door open for greater punitive measures.Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.
The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.The responses to Musk’s stance on the “cis” and “cisgender” labels have been mixed.“If that’s a slur why don’t you ban the use of the N word on here and make it fair for everyone and just eliminate all slurs,” one user asked.
Their comment did not receive a response from Musk.However, Musk did reply to a Twitter user who thanked him for the policy update and linked to reading that connects the origins of the “cis” label with German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch and pedophilic thought processes.“Yup, the contemptible creep that manufactured the term ‘cis’ has serious problems.
Ignore him,” Musk said.Yup, the contemptible creep that manufactured the term “cis” has serious problems. Ignore him.Many people called out Musk for his policy on “cis” and “cisgender” seemingly contradicting his “free speech absolutist” stance and repeated instances of arguing in favor of free speech.“Whatever happened to ‘free speech absolutism’ you hypocrite?” one user wrote. “Now we’re banning words you don’t like (which are completely acceptable in the medical world)?”“Bit confused on this one,” another user said. “The Oxford English dictionary lists it as not a slur.
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