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Elon Musk keeps tweeting the 'R-word.' Disability advocates say he needs to stop. (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by imvii@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As my post would have referred to your first sentence absent the second.

There was never a point where my comment contained the first sentence absent the second.

And you’ll notice everyone read your post the way I did before you edited it. When I came along, you had -5.

Bandwagoning is very common on web forums. People are easily influenced by the first reply they see, and will often click a vote button before thinking about what was actually written.

The paragraph I added was to try to guide people away from that bad habit once the bandwagoning had already started. It does not imply fault in my original comment.

When I am the listener or reader, any time my first impression of a comment is negative, I consider it my responsibility to stop and consider other meanings before crying foul. That's the only way we can avoid miscommunication, after all, since it's not possible for a speaker or author to predict every potential misinterpretation, and the burden of avoiding it should not be entirely on them. I wish more people would do the same.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, you advocate for a generous reading of peoples posts. But, despite knowing what your original post contained, took me at my direct word instead of what I clearly meant... weird, why would someone do that? You knew I meant paragraph, and yet assumed malicious intent. While saying people shouldn't do that...

And in your case it should have been even clearer I wrote the wrong word to convey my intended meaning.