‘Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm,’ the former Georgia congresswoman wrote
Marjorie Taylor Greene has urged fellow MAGA supporters – and other Americans – to “take off their political blinders” over the death of protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, warning that they are being “incited into civil war.”
“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement,” Greene wrote on X Sunday, the day after the fatal shooting. “However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment.
“Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”
Despite video showing that 37-year-old Pretti was filming federal officers but did not have a weapon drawn, the Trump administration has claimed he had tried to assassinate agents in an act of “domestic terrorism.”
I understood your point perfectly fine. I’m telling you that the r word, in the way you used it, is an ableist slur.
My argument was specifically that she was pretending to be intellectually deficient, the true meaning of the word that I’m apparently not allow to post. It is not, inherently, an “ableist slur.”
Using the word in that definition is literally the slur.
I can see why you would think that.
That’s like claiming using the n-word to refer to someone of recent African decent isn’t a slur because you are using the word “correctly” and that it would only be a slur if used for people who aren’t black.
A better comparison would be the NAACP or UNCF not changing their names because they don’t care to engage in the euphemism treadmill.