The N word is a great example of an insult for insult sake. If anything comparing ”pedo guy“ to the N word helps Elon’s case by implying it was just a generic insult.

You can't even write the insult you're talking about, how can you compare with "pedo guy", who no one has a problem writing anywhere?

Obviously they're a bad comparison.

Speaking for myself, the reason I’m not even writing the N word when discussing it isn’t because it’s more severe. The other term is so loaded that, in the early 2000s close to where I lived in the UK, a gang set about the house of a paediatrician because the mob didn’t know the difference — if the N word is more severe than that, then please let me know so that I can apologise for underestimating its effect.

Rather, the reason I’m avoiding the N word is that it targets an innocent group who are essentially my equals and who are only poor because Western Europe happened to go through the industrial revolution first (someone has to be first) and thus conquered around a third of the planet between them.

What's the insult you're referring to? Can you write it here..?

Cool, then you can see that they're not comparable.

I would have thought kaffir would be far more common to hear in Musk's childhood S Africa than nigger.

All three strike me as lowest possible level insult for which there is no justification. Thankfully most of the world's moved on a bit in the last 30 years...