• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If Elon can’t respect people’s names and allows deadnaming on Twitter, I think it’s only fair to not respect his name.

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      2 months ago

      This is some whataboutism. If he did this, it doesn’t mean that it should be acceptable.

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        Respect is earned. And generally mutual. You don’t respect people, I won’t respect you. I see no reason to respect anything about that Nazi.

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          In this case *they just call them by their surname, as they do with strangers, and you’ll look like adequate person