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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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I wanna be a Xitter Idiot (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Its usage in the song is not derogatory. It's meant to highlight the offensiveness of it and to cast the speaker as one of the disenfranchised of America.

It's controversial, I suppose, but it's meant to make a point. Changing it would just diminish it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Also, notable that the songwriter/singer has been out as bi since the early 90's