It’s awesome to see the two-minutes hate that Rep. Rashida Tlaib has ginned up against the New York Times. People are canceling their subscriptions (again) over the Times’ latest transgression of liberal thought: Tlaib claims that the paper is providing a platform for transphobic hate and propaganda. Of course, the definition of “transphobic hate” is awfully fuzzy; we just saw another conservative suspended from Twitter for “deadnaming” Elliot Page earlier this month. The Times would certainly never do that, nor would it disrespect someone’s pronouns. So what’s Tlaib on about?
The @nytimes has been providing a platform for transphobic hate & propaganda, with horrifying consequences. Texas just entered NYT articles into evidence to push for the TX Dept of Family & Protective Services to take trans kids away from their supportive parents.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 11, 2022
During escalating assaults on trans people & trans rights nationwide, the New York Times is featuring writers debating whether trans people should even exist and scapegoating this already-marginalized community. One way to act in solidarity is to sign now: https://t.co/xIeaBGIhlj
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 11, 2022
Thank you @chasestrangio for sounding the alarm and asking cis people to speak up. To trans & non-binary people: I'm with you. I’m going to keep fighting for your right to exist, to be safe as your full authentic selves, & to thrive. Our safety & liberation is intertwined.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 11, 2022
Chase Strangio, the ACLU lawyer who said that banning Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage” was “100 percent a hill I would die on” and who slammed “60 Minutes” for giving airtime to people who had transitioned and grew to regret it.
The fights for trans rights and reproductive justice are wrapped up together. Our right to bodily autonomy—our ability to make decisions about our own bodies—is under threat. This affects ALL of us. We must be in solidarity to defeat the growing fascist movement to control us.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 11, 2022
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So what transphobic hate has the Times been publishing? Opinion pieces, it seems — as many as two of them.
Your tweet is light on facts, so here's one of the "anti-trans" articles being complained about. Very well researched piece from @emilybazelon – the kind of time-intensive, thoughtful journalism that the NYT should continue engaging in.https://t.co/hLDjV3gS6O
— Race Bannon (@WoodysTennis) July 11, 2022
In response to Strangio "sounding the alarm and asking cis people to speak up", Rep. Tlaib criticizes the NYT for publishing 2 articles (by @emilybazelon & Pamela Paul) & calls for ppl to sign a petition asking the NYT to "stop providing a dangerous platform for transphobic hate" https://t.co/4Zhi3GdzfK
— boysvswomen.com (@boysvswomen) July 11, 2022
The articles:
The Battle Over Gender Therapy https://t.co/NW6omHDx12
The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Counthttps://t.co/NGyckMQKxU
— boysvswomen.com (@boysvswomen) July 11, 2022
Can you be specific as to what in the two articles makes them part of "the growing fascist movement to control us"?https://t.co/MNsOJLw9mk
— boysvswomen.com (@boysvswomen) July 11, 2022
The @nytimes articles in question are factual, no? If not, then dispute them using evidence. Otherwise, your rhetoric is not productive, anti-democratic, and is antithetical to free and open debate.
— ContinuouslyThinking (@c_thinking24_7) July 11, 2022
Still griftin’ I see. Kudos to you @RashidaTlaib
— Mooseknuckle (@Moose_Knuckle_) July 11, 2022
Based
— Number One Villain 🇭🇰 (@kaewoo94) July 11, 2022
The NYT? Biden's cheerleaders? Really
— Steve (@SCunny01) July 11, 2022
Wait, so now I'm supposed to like the NYT?
— T.L. Law (@LadroloLaw) July 11, 2022
Oh yes, the @nytimes , that perennial bastion of conservative thought.
— No Racism No CRT (@NoRacismNoCRT) July 11, 2022
I think you should all cancel your NYT subscriptions. Only way to fight back.
— Swirvithan L. Gooding Splatt 🏒🏈🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@l_splatt) July 11, 2022
For once I agree with you. The NYT should be liquidated.
— Surya (@Hoju89) July 11, 2022
The lefty creeps are eating themselves. How funny.
— Jesse Farmer (@jessethebuilder) July 11, 2022
https://twitter.com/PessimistLoser/status/1546603170868117505
I'm sorry this is happening to you.
— Unvaxxed AF (@billwilliams57) July 11, 2022
And yet your party can’t and won’t define what a woman is
— Marcus Hock (@marcus1320) July 11, 2022
We’re all for people canceling their subscriptions in protest, but we thought they all had canceled their subscriptions when the Times ran that op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton that had employees calling in sick.
Related:
ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio says anti-trans violence could be solved if people just embraced their 'feared desire' to have sex with trans people https://t.co/FmpUVIfrwh
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 24, 2021
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