A Beyoncé spokesperson confirmed that the American singer will be removing a fabled slur spasm from her new song Heated, which is featured on her new album, Renaissance
The 40-year-old singer was criticized for using a word in her songs after releasing her new album.
Abelist Slur Spas Earth And Example After Reddit Listing Beyoncé In Hot New Song On Her Renaissance Album
Competent Language and Ways to Avoid SRS Discussion
When Beyoncé dropped a similarly capable slur as Lizzo on her new album, my heart sank with popheads
There are too many words in the competent abuse/word list that people are unwilling to let go of.
– We are missing the recipes! (@souligan amazon) 2 August 2022
Dear Press and Media: Stop looking for quotes from white disabilities advocates about Beyoncé and this pro-abuse controversy. Many black disabled women understand the intersection they don’t.
They can’t see their unconscious prejudice, racism or white privilege.
— Ola Ojewumi (@Olas_Truth) 1 August 2022
TW // Abelist Slur
It’s really amazing to see people lying about competence in these last 24 hours. Beyoncé and Lizzo removed the abuse, agreeing that it was necessary to do so, even though harm was not intended. what do you do all this for? Hesitant. https://t.co/C2jrKowE0G
— Lonnie (They • Them) (@jaowrites) 2 August 2022
a thread :
Interesting how “spaz” is a competent slang for the disabled community (which I’m not disputing) but it’s still the same word that’s been in the BLACK community for years – (which both Lizzo and Beyoncé are part of) Now it just happens offensive and the lyrics of the song have changed? pic.twitter.com/51o9tmbizx
— Doubles & Folloury (@_KhadijahBrit) 1 August 2022
Why is everyone ignoring the fact that Beyoncé abused a capable person multiple times on her new album. pic.twitter.com/fqcxGEpmeY
– Rem. (@MOSCATOLNMYCUP) 29 July 2022
Beyonce fans are calling her on Twitter. Some listeners described the term as extremely derogatory to the disabled community.
The backlash came after another singer, Lizzo, removed the same slur from her song GRRRLS and issued an online apology to fans in June.
What did Beyoncé say when it was hot?
Beyoncé’s new song Heated was co-written with Drake. In this song he used derogatory terms for spastic diplegia which is a form of cerebral palsy.
After hearing her new song, many in the disabled communities, activists and charities began to react, leading Beyoncé to confirm that she would remove the word from her song.
In a recent interview, a representative for the American songwriter-singer told Insider that Beyoncé would drop the word.
He told publications that, “words not used in a deliberately harmful manner will be replaced”.
Disability equality charity Scope describes the use of the words in their songs as “horrendous”.
However, once the news of Beyoncé changing lyrics surfaced, many reacted differently.
“It’s good that Beyoncé has acted so swiftly after this thoughtless song was called out again by people with disabilities,” said Scope spokesperson, Warren Keenan.
He continued, “There’s a sense of deja vu because it’s only a few weeks since Lizzo also had to re-release a song after featuring the same offensive language.
We hope this is the last time we see anything like this from anyone, let alone musicians with massive global influence.
What is Abelist Slur?
According to Scope, competence is discrimination in favor of non-disabled people. It lists examples such as having an RO ramp to help a wheelchair user board a train or what a disabled person can or cannot do.
This also includes not making proper adjustments at work.
A slur is also known as a derogatory term which is a derogatory term. The term is often used against a minority group. It can be used to make a derogatory or derogatory effect.
Lizzo apologizes after using abuse
Most recently, in July, Lizzo released her new album called Special. In the album, one of his singles titled Grrrls received an overwhelming response online for being a capable slur.
Later, Lizzo apologized and released a more updated version of the song without the word abalist in it.
The Juice singer explained on her social media that she never wanted to “promote abusive language”.
In her post, she said, “As a fat black woman in America, so many hurtful words have been used against me, so I can understand the power words (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally)”.
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