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Elon Musk kicks off pride month once again with transphobia


Photo of Elon Musk, like glaring at something other than the camera

The face of a man whose children surely still talk to him
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Its early junewhich is traditionally the time when corporations adorn their logo with rainbow colors in either serious effort to stand with marginalized gay people (rare and increasingly rare) or one cynical trick to separate people from their money (much more common).

Elon Musk, the leader of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, is not a traditionalist. Two years on, he’s opened Pride Month with a different tactic: Making very loud, very public anti-LGBT statements. But while last year’s effort at least sound Outwardly friendly, this year Musk has raised the bar: Amplify a documentary that even Twitter’s own content moderator has been flagged as hate speech.

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Musk quoted the tweet documentary Daily Wire What is a woman? this morning, which was released last June. Those who have watched the film have called it “Cheat“”science denial,” And “full of sublime lies.” It was directed by Matt Walsh, “New Republic’sTransgender of the year” Ai used a fake LGBT support organization to involve real transgender people in interviews. All a part of himAll attacks on gender ideology,” clear.

When the Daily Wire initially tried to “premiere” the film on Twitter (again, it came out last year, this wasn’t a premiere), the site’s Trust and Safety team marked the video as containing hate speech with the wrong transgender reason. When a representative for the Daily Wire complained, Musk himself took to Twitter to call the label “a mistake.” That tweet, calling being transgender was “at least rude and certainly not breaking any laws,” reinforced a change that the site has long suggested: Currently, being transgender is explicitly allowed on Twitter.

Reply, Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety has left the site today. musk personal promotion documentary Daily Wire, saying that “Every parent should watch this.” Musk’s tweet has more than 280,000 likes, and according to Twitter figures, it has been viewed nearly 40 million times. He actually raised the bar for attacking homosexuals during Pride month, but it wasn’t out of the question for one person. continuous lean furthermore And furthermore in hydrophobic behavior behavior. No wonder his daughter wants nothing to do with him.

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