December 18, 2020, 1:50 pm
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and man who fought to keep his plants open to make overpriced cars during a pandemic, randomly tweeted an inscrutable image about people putting certain pronouns in their social media bios. The image appeared to be of a dramatic Revolutionary War painting topped by a cartoon of a British soldier smearing what might be blood on his face with a hat that says “I love to oppress.”
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We have not yet been able to find an explanation for what’s on the teacup hanging from the redcoat’s pinky.
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It’s also generally unclear why Musk has an issue with he/him pronouns specifically or what anything in the image has to do with them. Seriously, is there a person on planet Earth who can explain this?
The best anyone can figure is that Musk seems to have an issue with people declaring their pronouns, which is a common quality among the far-right, who often seem to be obsessed with this minor aspect of grammar.
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“I immediately ignore anyone with pronouns in their bio as unimportant, uninteresting, or unaccomplished,” commented HINDLE, who likes to retweet Donald Trump a lot.
Musk did respond to an article calling him out for attacking trans and non-binary people who may have different pronouns than some might expect, but he only dug himself deeper.
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“I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare,” he wrote.
First of all, “trans” is an adjective and not a noun, and referring to trans people this way is considered dehumanizing. Secondly, people have something to say about what is and is not an “esthetic nightmare.”
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Musk is going to have a real hard time if he can’t even figure out the pronoun “he.” But he’s posting incel memes and blowing up rockets, so clearly he’s coping well.
*First Published: December 18, 2020, 1:50 pm
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