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'Extremism experts' tell NYT reporter that Christina Pushaw's tweet can increase violence against trans people

We’re pretty sure New York Times reporter Maggie Astor is on strike today, as it was her tweet we featured Wednesday night in her plea that people join the “digital picket line” and not visit any New York Times sites Thursday.

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Christina Pushaw was given until the end of the day Thursday to provide comment on a hit piece mentioning her written by Astor, who’s supposedly among those who walked out.

Astor is writing a piece on increasing violence and threats of violence against trans people, and wondered if Pushaw had any comment, since she was using one of her tweets as an example of “the type of rhetoric that extremism experts told me can increase the likelihood of violence against trans people.”

The “groomer” tag really stung, and after some spin, libs and the media decided that it was a homophobic slur in order to keep conservatives from using it against them.

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Yep, “experts say….”

We’re looking forward to the piece so we can see who the “extremism expert” is the Times chose to consult on the issue.

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https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1600945886712188934

It’s obviously someone from an activist group or a university professor; it’s always one of those two.

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