“This is Baltimore’s DEI mayor commenting on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge,” the user wrote alongside a clip of Scott speaking. “It’s going to get so, so much worse. Prepare accordingly.”

The post was immediately fact checked and even came with an advisory.

“Brandon Scott was elected as Mayor of Baltimore in 2020 with > 70% of the vote,” the advisory reads. “He did not come in to office through any DEI practices, appointments, etc.” This isn’t the first instance of a racist swapping out the N-word with “DEI”—but it certainly is one of the most brazen.

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    Hard to imagine a city that’s nearly 2/3 black electing a black mayor /s

    It blows my mind there are still such shitty people out there who think like that user.

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      You don’t understand, it doesn’t matter if it’s 100% black community, the only qualified people to run anything are white cis men and everyone knows that. Strangely enough even black people understand that even with their learning disabilities and all. Just look at the kings of Europe, see any black people there? Checkmate wokeyMcwokewoke!

      -Some racist moron probably.

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      You could post a YT video of the cutest bunch of puppies ever and there would be comments suggesting you kill them.

      There’s no shortage of shitty people.

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          Thank God Musk got rid of all the Twitter bots. /s

          I mean technically… there are no Twitter bots anymore. There are only X bots.