This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
Roope, a student at UCLA, tweeted that he changed the name on his student ID to "Lightning-Kachow-McQ.".
Arielle Yael Mokhtarzadeh, president of UCLA's Undergraduate Student Association Council, told the Daily Bruin that the disconnect between one's preferred name and legal name "Is an issue faced by many transgender and international students on campus."
That's why many took to Twitter to call out Roope, arguing that his quirky name change is far from funny - and instead hurts transgender students.
It really is. God forbid we let a wheelchair bound guy have a little fun at his own expense, cause nobody saw that name and thought, “Holy shit, that SOB has some balls making fun of trannies like that.”
27 comments
1 DeathBahamutXXX 2017-10-29
Woooo so the disabled kid in a wheelchair names himself after a Cars character and now that's transphobic.
1 YOU_NOW_HAVE_AIDS 2017-10-29
How can't you see that now he's worse than Hitler?
1 BussySundae 2017-10-29
Hahaha holy shit how’d I miss his disability? That makes the racecar name even better.
How can someone be so criminally retarded to not see the beauty in this?
1 DeathBahamutXXX 2017-10-29
The link to his facebook is in the post. He can't weight more than 75 lbs and is in a motorized wheelchair.
1 metric_units 2017-10-29
75 lb ≈ 34 kg
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1 imaginarycreatures 2017-10-29
Clearly, he is a person who has never experienced people treating him differently because of his appearance.
1 BussySundae 2017-10-29
I like you...
1 SethRichOrDieTryin 2017-10-29
He's a cishet white male though, so life has been handed to him on a silver platter.
1 DeathBahamutXXX 2017-10-29
How do we know he is cishet? Literally the only thing fucking this kid is life.
1 backltrack 2017-10-29
His dick doesn't work so he's probably the physical equivalent of a tranny
1 polddit 2017-10-29
Someone so criminally retarded they decided to go against all laws of biology and decide they were the opposite gender.
1 grep_var_log 2017-10-29
Yeh, transphobic against all those students who don't have transmissions like his wheelchair does.
1 charlesgrodinfan 2017-10-29
This kid watches South Park
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-29
Don't do thing! DON'T DO THING!!!!
1 SethRichOrDieTryin 2017-10-29
Y'all folks stay woke.
1 GuillotinesNOW 2017-10-29
smdh at all of these ableist SJWs talking shit about this poor, wheelchair-bound kid.
They're all obviously reactionaries for heaping more oppression on the already-oppressed.
1 autotldr 2017-10-29
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: student#1 name#2 allow#3 Roope#4 cards#5
1 Senator_Chickpea 2017-10-29
But they still can illegally call you "Asswipe Johnson."
1 nonplussed__ 2017-10-29
i love news articles that are just like "i have sorted the tweets and will now present them one side at a time"
1 BussySundae 2017-10-29
The journalistic shitpost.
1 ltedt 2017-10-29
That is incredible. This kid is great
1 FrostBittenSalsa 2017-10-29
1 John_Kvetch 2017-10-29
Kachow motherfuckers
1 BackMusclesGetMeHard 2017-10-29
do people think someone gives a shit what's on a student id outside school?
1 MasterLawlz 2017-10-29
If this happened even ten years ago nobody would have thought it had any kind of malicious undertones, this is like an elementary school level prank
1 BussySundae 2017-10-29
It really is. God forbid we let a wheelchair bound guy have a little fun at his own expense, cause nobody saw that name and thought, “Holy shit, that SOB has some balls making fun of trannies like that.”
It’s so childish.
1 MG87 2017-10-29
Uhh people have been asking "what do you prefer I call you?" since the dawn of fucking time.