Tbh this s*** seems kinda silly to me but not to Lizzo’s audience. She cultivated that group she gotta deal with it

Like her whole thing is body positivity right? Can’t be using ableist slurs when that’s your brand

imagine letting british people police your language, f*** them

Lol I find it funny that Lizzo is setup to pander to the Twitter audience and yet she still getting backlash.

Twitter needs to do what Nickelodeon did back in the day and shut down for day so niggas can go outside cuz the outrage s*** is stupid at this point.

It's a little rich when all corners of the internet, twitter definitely included, said some vile fat-phobic s*** directed personally to her for years

i called someone an idiot on twitter and someone said they gonna block me for being ableist

i really hate what you niggas did to world and ur going to get away with it

Nobody who has ever spoken to another human being in real life should be upset at this.

I hate to sound like one of those “everyone’s getting too sensitive!” clowns but f***. That’s just been getting truer and truer over the past few years.

Spaz is a slur and insult here tbf

But using it as a verb nothing wrong with that imo

Ain't Kanye say I'm bout to spaz on Four Five Seconds ? : shows how much Twitter culture developed that this a thing

I never understood why people in America can't use spaz because it's supposedly a slur in the UK...

1. F*** the UK
2. "Spaz" is literally just the shortened form of the word "spastic", which refers to erratic and/or volatile behavior or muscle spasms. How is this offensive?

Doesn't Pharrell have a whole song called spaz

yeah lol I find it hilarious how canibalizing these types are

Lesson on why you shouldn’t make them your target audience

Classic N.E.R.D chune

All slurs aren’t created equally btw.

Spaz ≠ R*

Cracker ≠ Nigga

etc

I don’t really feel bad tho, when you play to that crowd this is what’s gonna happen. S*** gonna blow over tho she don’t gotta do s***

nah it’s like how are ppl going 2 deal w the real issues if basic lyrics are the end of the world

Luckily these people don’t leave their basements so they’re rarely actually a problem irl. Just loud online

Which actually is a problem now that I think about it because this type of s*** just comes off as a caricature of progressive values which just gives right wingers more ammunition to appeal to people since 90% of the population agrees s*** like this is dumb as f***

Should be like “Yep, I’m ableist. I’m also racist, homophobic, transphobic and xenophobic. You can’t stop me.”

ayo
lizzo kinda spazzed on that verse though

😀

spaz we can say it together
but only if you let a white brit say R-nvm

United Kingdom

The medical term "spastic" came into use to describe cerebral palsy.3 The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics was founded in 1946, and the Spastics Society, an English charity for people with cerebral palsy, was founded in 1951. However, the word began to be used as an insult and became a term of abuse used to imply stupidity or physical ineptness: a person who is uncoordinated or incompetent, or a fool. It was often colloquially abbreviated to shorter forms such as ‘spaz’.

Although the word has a much longer history, its derogatory use grew considerably in the 1980s and this is sometimes attributed to the BBC children's TV show Blue Peter;5 during the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981), several episodes of Blue Peter featured a man named Joey Deacon with cerebral palsy, who was described as a "spastic". Phrases such as "joey", "deacon", and "spaz" became widely used insults amongst children at that time.6

i’m getting canceled someone please report

Crine