Five people are dead and more than a dozen others injured after a gunman opened fire at Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in the early hours of November 20.
November 20 is also Transgender Day of Remembrance, which memorializes victims of anti-trans violence. Two transgender people, Kelly Loving and Daniel Aston, are among the dead in Colorado Springs. This attack was reminiscent of the 2015 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, in which the gunman took 49 lives. If two Club Q patrons—Richard Fierro, an Army veteran, and an unnamed patron who witnesses say was a trans woman—did not disarm the shooter, he likely would have killed more people.
As morally depraved transphobic politicians like Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert offer their “thoughts and prayers,” and news outlets offer wall-to-wall coverage of the tragedy, it is important to remember the media’s role in normalizing violent and hateful right-wing rhetoric.
MSNBC’s Ben Collins (Twitter, 11/22/22) spoke Tuesday morning about the shooting and asked what reporters can do differently to avoid being part of the problem:
I think we have to have a come-to-Jesus moment here, as reporters. Are we more afraid of being on Breitbart for saying that trans people deserve to be alive? Or are we more afraid of dead people?
Conversations on Twitter in response to Collins’ question mention the need for more transgender representation in the newsroom and the need to stop covering anti-LGBTQ talking points as anything but hate.
Documenting transphobia
In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, Tucker Carlson (Fox News, 11/21/22)doubled down on transphobia.
FAIR has been documenting homophobia (3/7/16, 10/24/19, 5/26/21) and transphobia (5/6/21, 9/24/21, 5/5/22) in the corporate press for years. Right-wing pundits like Fox‘s Tucker Carlson certainly come to mind first as culpable in spreading this hate.
In the days since the shooting, Fox News has been relatively silent about trans issues, with only five mentions as of November 22. And some of the coverage was hate-filled business as usual, as when Caitlin Jenner condemned a young trans athlete for winning in a race on America Reports (FoxNews.com, 11/21/22).
One of the few mentions of the shooting was Carlson himself (11/21/22) lambasting people for blaming an anti-LGBTQ attack on people like him. He claimed people were blaming the right for the mass shooting because they “complained about the sexualizing of children.”
The Washington Post (4/5/22) offered up the same bigoted conspiracy theories served by Tucker Carlson—but presented as neutral reporting.
These delusional conspiracy theories about LGBTQ people “grooming” children are a fixture of outlets like Fox. But centrist and “liberal” media must also answer for their platforming of transphobic points of view, and chronic “both-sidesing” of bigots with LGBTQ people and allies.
Below is a list of some of the instances of normalized homophobia and transphobia FAIR has documented in recent years:
- A New York Times article by Judith Shulevitz (10/15/16) argued that anti-transgender sentiment cannot be described as “mere intolerance,” presenting anti-transgender radical feminists as a more rational voice in opposition to trans rights. The article also framed the debate about transgender rights as an issue of “clashing values” (FAIR.org, 11/15/18).
- Washington Post opinion writer Thomas Wheatley (1/17/17) argued that “society’s broader trend toward gender nullification—and its dissolution of prudent, time-tested boundaries of conduct”—what he described as “the more disagreeable aims of the transgender movement”—will “directly endanger women,” because “traditional gender roles still serve as a deterrent to predatory behavior” (FAIR.org, 11/15/18).
- An Economist piece headlined “Who Decides Your Gender?” (10/27/18) suggested that allowing gender self-identification could harm efforts to “keep women and children safe” (FAIR.org, 11/15/18).
- The Guardian (10/17/18) argued for rewriting Britain’s Gender Recognition Act, which allows British citizens to legally change their gender. “Women’s oppression by men has a physical basis, and to deny the relevance of biology when considering sexual inequality is a mistake,” the editorial maintained. “Women’s concerns about sharing dormitories or changing rooms with ‘male-bodied’ people must be taken seriously” (FAIR.org, 9/24/21).
- CNN (3/16/21) quoted Republican Rep. Andy Biggs calling the federal Equality Act a “devastating attack on humanity” that “recklessly requires girl’s and women’s restrooms, lockers, gyms or any place a female might seek privacy, to surrender that privacy to biological males” (FAIR.org, 3/3/21).
- NBC (2/25/21) gave the right-wing Heritage Foundation a platform for baseless claims about the impact of the Equality Act—from stating that people might lose their jobs or businesses if they don’t “conform to new sexual norms,” to asserting that the bill would “leave women vulnerable to sexual assault” (FAIR.org, 3/3/21).
- A New York Times Magazine cover story “The Battle Over Gender Therapy” (6/19/22) wondered if gender-affirming care for trans kids shouldn’t be so easy to access. In doing so, it laundered far-right views for a broader audience, making hostility to trans people’s basic rights more acceptable. Cisgender doctors, not trans youth, are centered in the story (FAIR.org, 6/23/22).
- The Washington Post (4/5/22) published a piece headlined “Teachers Who Mention Sexuality Are ‘Grooming’ Kids, Conservatives Say.” It spent 12 paragraphs quoting transphobic bigots’ points-of-view before introducing another perspective (FAIR.org, 4/12/22).
This list is, of course, not exhaustive.
Transphobia costs lives
If “transgender girls are at the center of America’s culture wars,” they’re not at the center of this Washington Post piece (1/29/21); only one is quoted, in the article’s very last paragraph.
FAIR has also documented the lack of transgender youth quoted in both centrist and far-right news outlets (FAIR.org, 5/5/22). When the Washington Post (1/29/21, 4/15/21) covered the anti-transgender sports campaign in two 2021 articles, sources that were transgender athletes were outnumbered 11 to 1 and 17 to 3, respectively (FAIR.org, 5/6/21). Right-wing efforts to demonize trans people (as well as others in the LGBTQ community) are that much more effective when the targets are denied the ability to speak for themselves.
Transgender people are more than four times as likely as cisgender people to experience violence including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault. Transgender people of color are disproportionately victims of fatal violence. Eighty-two percent of trans youth have considered killing themselves, and 40% have tried. Trans adults are more likely to not have health insurance and report cost-related barriers to healthcare. In general, data suggests the mortality rate of trans people is more than twice that of cis people.
The risk of living as a transgender person is widely known, yet news outlets still treat their existence as something that’s up for debate. As we’ve seen time and again, transphobia costs lives.
News outlets need to be held accountable for their complicity in presenting and watering down this hateful, violent ideology.
Featured image: Demonstration at White House, 2017 (CC photo: Ted Eytan)
no problem with trans. none of my business. getting tired of being hammered with it. the media should maybe leave it alone. No one will change their mind and their fear gets the best of them. Maybe lay off it and stop pushing it.
“Maybe lay off it and stop pushing it.” What does that mean? Your comment is unclear. I read it to mean that you think that trans people’s rights receive too much media support, as opposed to the rights of cis people. Maybe I misread it, so perhaps you would clarify your meaning.
Except there is no “media-support” for non-trans (heterosexual) people. It’s not an issue.
People do get annoyed by the government-media complex pushing support for a tiny minority of the population over the important issues that affect the 99% as a whole.
“there is no “media-support” for non-trans (heterosexual) people” is possibly the most absurdly ridiculous claim since Neville Chamberlain declared “Peace in our time”. Trans is gender, not sexual orientation. Cis people’s lives are celebrated everywhere, their genders taken for granted as normal. Really, Bill, is that your final answer?
Nope. Ignoring bullies never makes them go away. They just get worse.
I (and many others) have some serious worries about the treatment of kids with gender dysphoria. What if the kid is gay, I ask? How do we know for sure if a pre-pubescent child really is trans and not just experimenting with gender the way many gay or cis kids do? And are these nine-year-old children really mature enough to make life-long decisions that could make them permanently sterile, keep them on drugs for the rest of their lives, or permanently remove their capacity to have an orgasm? How could pre-pubescent kids even know what an orgasm was? This is not trivial stuff and we don;t have enough independent research.
I think your worries are informed by the anti-trans media, not by good science. Certainly, there is always more research to be done, but the goal of that vociferous minority of gender-critical feminists allied to religious fundamentalists and the far right is not to make the lives of children better, but rather to create a brutal society without rights for vulnerable minorities such as trans people of all ages. Destroying trans rights is the vanguard of their campaigns to remove all the rights and freedoms we take for granted, and they are open about this. Liberals should beware.
I think those worries are informed by valid concerns – not anti-trans media – ,emerging research and science. As life goes, it’s challenging enough getting through the teen tears without opening the door to puberty blocker drugs and other lifelong medical treatments etc just because a kid (under 16 years old) desires a medical transition in a given point in time. So call me crazy but doctors should treat this – no going back – damn seriously. So yeah, go ahead and call me anti trans or whatever for asking for doctors and the medical industry to treat this very seriously and not just as a life long series of cash flows discounted by the time value of money.
Okay. If you want to admit to wanting to make the lives of young, transgender people as difficult as possible, then go ahead. You’re not on the side of the science, nor of people whose lives are indeed “challenging enough” without having their desperation ignored and dismissed as unreal by the likes of you and J K Rowling.
All those concerns are well and good. But the response shouldn’t be violence in the name of “stopping the groomers.” Because that’s what’s happening and that’s what a lot of media are hand-waving away.
Critical analysis and skepticism is at the heart of any sensible journalist or publication. As a doctor, I am beginning to find the relentless promotion of concepts derived from critical gender and critical queer theory to be destabilizing to kids’ identities, lives and happiness. Far to many people are taking the real life experience of less than a couple of percent of the population and imposing it as if it is some kind of choice for everyone else. They call this “inclusion.” It’s actually “indoctrination.”
Telling an impressionable gay boy he might be a girl throws a wrench into his psychological development, adding confusion, possible generating bodily mutilation. Making all of this as cool as possible — as so many teachers and schools now do — is downright disturbing. The whole idea that all children can choose their pronouns because the tiniest proportion have gender dysphoria is a form of insanity. But it’s an insanity based on critical theory whose goal is the dismantling of all norms, and deconstruction of objective reality often by calling it a function of “white supremacy”.
Strangely, it is not trans or gender-binary children, nor their supportive parents, who find their happiness threatened by advances in rights and affirming care. It is the far right, a minority of radical feminists and religious fundamentalists who hate the very notion of children having a say in their own lives, and of a society in which the ruling class is no longer worshipped. You merely abuse those who want a better world for all as ‘insane’, a label so often attached by the powerful to those who threaten their power. If you are a medical doctor, you ought to know that ‘insanity’ has long been abandoned as a medical diagnosis. Perhaps you should update your reading.
You are totally incorrect; the medical and legal term ‘insanity’ has not been abandoned as a medical diagnosis and you need to conduct addition reading.
Here’s the first sentence of law.com’s lengthy definition:
‘Insanity. n. mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior’.
Review ANY online or offline dictionary or medical bookand you will discover a definition of insanity similar to: “inˈsanədē/ noun / the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness”.
Further and to the above Doctor’s points, I too believe we are arriving to a bridge to far, whereby our society is taking impressionable young girls and boys (indeed children) and adding unnecessary confusion about their identity at a highly vulnerable or impressionable age and then possibly worse, exposing them to the unknown dangers of puberty blocker drugs, life long hormone use and even non-reversible bodily mutilation. I submit in many of these cases the term ‘insanity’ does in fact apply.
Certainly, ‘insanity’ is a legal term, but no longer a medical diagnosis. I challenge you to show its use in current medical texts. You quoted from law.com, not from, say, the DSM.
As for “impressionable young girls and boys”, it is they who are asking, indeed demanding, the gender-affirming care they need. Your open contempt for trans and non-binary young people, when translated into legislation that strips their rights away, leaves them without hope.
I’m not far-right. I’m nowhere near that side. Democrats are too far right in my opinion.
I see two sides to this: On the one side, a child that is not legally old enough to vote, join the military or drink alcohol shouldn’t be considered mature enough to decide on life-altering surgery. On the other side, if these children unquestionably, sincerely believe they should have been born “the other” and they don’t get at least hormones before the age of (legal) reason, then their transition to the other won’t be as complete when they eventually try.
Its interesting times we live in. As a American progressive feminist, the dynamic of what’s commonly called self ID or self identification often has male-bodied people presenting themselves as women, who live as women, with varying degrees of medical intervention and in some cases, no medical intervention. Which in my view crosses a line – depending on the particular circumstances – it really can. Sure it could be ephemeral, transitory or permanent. However it’s often a slap in the face to women for a host of reasonable and sensible reasons.
Sadly, your self-identification as an “American progressive feminist” is threatened by your open approval of the hateful ideas being pushed by the far right allied with religious conservatives who want to roll back the many rights we have gained by the sacrificial work of so many courageous people. Do you think that ending trans rights is their only goal? As they make very clear, they want women’s rights destroyed, too. Either you stand with trans people, or you stand with the fascists.
Based on your comments I see you are a bit paranoid and have a strict black and white view of the world, that has no grey. You actually believe that the hard right is the cause of all the worlds’ problems. Here is the reality; there is a hard right and a hard left with a huge group in the middle – called independents who typically don’t have extreme views. It’s a middle ground and they are not narrow minded or fascists as you state. Take a good look in the mirror when you state trans rights are female rights, because you are totally misguided in that conclusion.
Your extreme centrism is of the kind that led to the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003, under US & UK leaders who proclaimed their lack of political extremism. It prevents the drastic actions that are needed to combat climate change. There’s nothing intrinsically virtuous about not supporting socialist ideals and about covering for the hard right. Trans rights are human rights, for all, and fascists hate the very notion of human rights.
Extreme centrism?? I believe that’s an oxymoron. Never mind and based your further comments I now see you are totally paranoid and perhaps beyond getting help.
I have followed the chain of comments and no matter what anyone says, if they don’t agree with you 100%, they bigoted, hateful, or uninformed. The NY Times article for instance said nothing hateful about trans people. The writer did extensive research and wrote about the potential dangers of puberty blockers and life long hormone use. One of the comments you criticized was from a doctor who said the same thing. This is not just an opinion, thee are scientific facts supported this, than puberty blockers can lead to one loss for instance. But to you that’s hate speech. You would also call anyone who questions the rights of women athletes to compete against biological women as hateful and unfair to trans women. Well how is it fair to women swimmers who had to compete against Lea Thomas, who originally competed as a man at UPenn, with a mediocre record and then transitioned, taking on year of testosterone, and as a women swimmer broke records. Thomas did have the advantage of growing up male and had the shape and strength the gave her, despite the one year treatment of testosterone suppressant. But anyone who says this is called a hateful TERF by people like you. Women prisoners must now share jail cells with trans identity women. Their rights are secondary. I’m sure your response to me will to say how hateful I am and I couldn’t possibly have any valid thoughts since I must be aligned with the far right. Perhaps you should consider how hateful you are, demonizing anyone who dares to disagree with anything you say or believe.
Your defensiveness is not backed by good arguments, sadly. Take the sporting controversy: if your goal is honestly to make sport more egalitarian, then how about banning private schools which provide a huge and unfair advantage to children of wealthy parents? Even more effectively, let’s end capitalism – source of gigantic social and economic inequalities wherever it is allowed to fester – and turn to socialism for a much fairer, more just society in which sporting opportunities are available to all.
Ah, I thought not. It’s just transgender children you want kept out.
What a ridiculous response, but it’s what I expected. You can’t respond to anything I wrote so you write about private schools and socialism and how defensive I am. Obviously you agree that it is unfair for biological women to have to compete against biological men like Lea Thomas. But your response is there is inequality everywhere so too bad. That sums up the radical viewpoint of people like you. You don’t want equal rights for trans people you want more rights for them.
This kind of mindless, hostile statement is part of why so many very progressive people are standing up and saying that this indoctrination campaign is wrong. We should, rightfully not promote using drugs and scalpel knives to permanently change children and adolescents who can not vote, drink alcohol or join the military.
Fascism? IT is in fact very fascist to say that we can not even have a rational discussion on this topic, without somehow having our difference of opinion be a call to violence and attacks upon us for simply having our own opinion, and an opinion that is based on a better foundation of equality than what the trans-industrial complex is promoting, for profit in these treatments.
To the people who are exploring genders of choice, not biology I wish you well. The concept of having choices of gender, however is now being used to justify causing permanent physical changes to people who are exploring at a time when they are too immature to understand the permanent consequences. Extending this concept to these young people will inevitably cause some of them harm, and how can you force these permanent options, when the outcome of happiness is not guaranteed by anyone.
What if you are wrong, and more of these people are made miserable instead of being happy 10 to 20 years from now? What percent of suicides are attempted or done by people post permanent gender change proocedures?
Experimenting on children, with corporate money supporting this as a social issues, while saying that people who have valid concerns, for which they get castigated by even bringing these up is totally a form of fascist control of free speech, and Orwell would be proud that some of trans supporters would have it part of the new allowable newsspeak that we would not have any rights to bring our rational opposing views to light.
Did Transphobia have anything to do with this shooting? Supposedly a non-binary person committed this crime. Maybe he was just pissed and wanted to take it out on people who are just like him, like an incels’ dude taking out his anger on heterosexuals (like himself).
I thought it was homophobia. I’m getting confused.
What most folks must realize is that this is distraction politics from RW grifters who are using certain media outlets to demonize LGBTQ people. The so-called Mainstream media outlets latch onto this stuff; and, use it to fundraise off of. We all know what they’re up to.
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Wow, I thought FAIR readers would be a lot more informed about the issues presented in this article than the comments indicate. Children are not making decisions on life altering care. Hopefully they have supportive parents that recognize who they are and willing to help them. And children are not receiving care that changes them forever. It only puts puberty on hold until one is mature enough to make a final decision. Is this all 100%? No, but what in life is? The goal is only to support non-gender conforming children to live as happily as humanly possible in a world with far to many conservative absolutist.
Glad to see that you’re willing — indeed, eager — to perform hormonal experiments on other people’s children. After all, the drugs “only” disrupt puberty. The fact that there are no studies of the long-term effects of doing so is nothing to worry about because, like, nothing is 100% in this life!
Maybe “supportive parents” are not those who take their cues from their 12-year olds — the ones hearing constant trans promotions, and who may decide a few years later that they’re not really not trapped in the wrong body after all.
This demand that the public at large accept every last piece of dogma promoted by activists of the movement is never going to fly beyond the small cohort of recent college graduates who haven’t yet discovered that they’re not actually in possession of divine truth.
Fail to do so, and you’re an accessory to murder!
Axiomatic pronouncements about gender don’t make them true. You have a right to your religion, but how about leaving the unconverted alone until you have better arguments than what’s “hurtful” and inducing shame for acts one had nothing to do with?
You wouldn’t know an axiom if it chopped off your **ts and fed them to you. Stop pretending you know beyond all shadow of doubt how other people feel. Do you know you are heterosexual or is your heterosexuality only based on dogma? The answer you give is the same no matter what sex or gender. To project your own knowledge of how you are feeling to be normal and all else as “abnormal” is naive realism and ridiculously fallacious. If being Jake is only based in dogma, then of course Jake will emptily and circularly assert the same to be true of others (that’s why circular reasoning is bull crap.). To even suggest that anyone not exactly like Jake is abnormal or dogmatic begs the question of dogma and normalcy to begin with. It’s like saying “A dogmatic thinker is being dogmatic,” oh yeah? You idiots who push circular reasoning and dismissible rhetoric on principle, need to grow up. Jake honey, you’ve been spewing the same nonsensical bulls*it for years. How about coming up with a new schtick? If your imagination is too weak and your ignorance too sprawling start by going back to your Parler echo chamber, where you dummies like to stroke groom and coax each other’s egos. Jesus Christ
“For years”? Really? Going back to when?
That invention aside, I’m not sure that how I “feel” is of any consequence to you, but when a fraction of 1% of the population is determined to impose how *it* feels on the rest of society, with legal strictures, language prohibitions, a long roster of thought crimes and instantly job loss on demand for doubters, the program is unlikely to be successful.
And when 15-year olds and gender studies and communications majors try to impose their discourse on the other 300 million, including much of the left, they’re likely to encounter disappointment.
But go ahead and spin your wheels where others — all 237 of them? — regard your insights as the frontier of human consciousness and the way to social justice and eternal happiness.
OTOH, it is true that if you ruled by decree and no one had the vote your program would do fine. Christ, indeed.
Jake why do you always immediately refer to the abstract hypothetical downside of the LGBTQ community and never mention the myriad of good that variation brings to the table? I noticed you gave not a single example in your long list of aggrieved poor me bulls”it. Start by listing a single time you were robbed of your own freedom, or humanity, simply by realizing the humanity in someone unlike you.
You say how you feel is of no consequence, then why are you trying to impose how you feel onto others with whom you disagree, by labeling their sense of self as “dogmatic”?
You are now contradicting yourself or making no sense.
I pity people who only see the downside of LGBTQ diversity, and who only see sex and gender as something dangerous to be feared.
A couple more thoughts Jake…
By saying you’ve been at this for years I am referring to an article on FAIR about trans athletes where I saw another person named Jake post comments similar to the ones you’ve posted here. If I am mistaken about that my bad.
Do you believe in evolution by natural selection or not?
Do you believe in free will or not?
Do you believe humans have the right to self determination as an intrinsic aspect of being human or not?
It’s interesting that the author if this piece lists The NY Times as one of the publications that is guilty of transphobia, citing one example in which someone said the opinions of feminists have some validity. The Times has published dozens of articles about trans and almost everyone single one was extremely supportive. There have been articles about trans athletes, couples, trans camps, among others and there have been trans opinion writers giving their point of view. Yet the writer of this piece picks out one article and says how bigoted the paper is. I wonder why she thinks that women’s voices considering some of these issues shouldn’t be heard. They too have valid points of view regarding many issues. Maybe a woman has been raped and is justified in wanting single sex changing rooms or prison cells. When the Roe vs Wade was overthrown the ACLU said how this would affect poor people, immigrants, students etc and never once mention the word women. Women are the ones who get pregnant and have abortions. To not even say women when talking about abortion is absurd. Also although trans people do suffer dangers from assaults and rape, certainly worldwide in this country, the sheer number of women who are raped vastly outnumber what happens to trans people. Many non trans teens also suffer from depression and/or are bullied. It is tragic what the trans face but many others who are not trans suffer also. They matter too.
Its call ‘Cherry Picking’. Similar or often exactly how the MSM (and FAIR in this case) selectively quote sentences, paragraphs or entire stories and then leave out past stories they have written, to complete their newer topic and color their desired narrative.
The empty assertions that anti-LGBTQ proponents love to post are based on a fundamental category error in their thinking:
They are conflating the behavior of being human to be an exhaustive account of the essence of being human. This is as stupid and ignorant as saying ‘the ripple is all there is to the water.’
Whenever they try to assert some nonsense like ‘trans folks are being dogmatic’ based on their own logic it means they are being dogmatic too. If being a human of any identity is axiomatically identical to being dogmatic then by logical extension how someone feels or (it doesn’t matter what we call it) the feeling of being themselves is based on dogma too. Once they paint our human sense of being with such broad strokes of ignorance, to assert that being human is only comprised of dogma, by default they include themselves too. It has to do with how logic works. Ontological claims are so broad that when we assert them to be true for one kind of thing the same principles are also true about another entity of the same kind. They try to have it both ways by essentially saying something like ‘if you disagree with me you are being dogmatic,’ which is nothing but childish sophistry, or worse – naive realism, Jordan Peterson style.
Their technique is an attempt to elevate the rhetoric of reason to be the same as reason or rationale itself. It’s a sophisticated but ultimately vacuous and ignorant thing to do this.
I’d even go so far as to say that broad appeals to their own ignorance is the neo-reactionary’s number one go-to when building their argument for a conservative worldview.
By conflating the behavior of being to be the essence of being, there are only two choices, doing so is to make a categorical error in logic, or what they’re trying to assert for others is so broad in scope it paints their own beliefs with the same set of a priori principles too. Their only way out of this is to use semantics to posit an empty assertion that amounts to basically ‘Well, its my way or the highway!’ They seem to truly believe that only the labels their side comes up with hold any truth value. Either way they are being dogmatic too. Lol.
If all there is to being human is the labels we come up with, how is this any different than saying the map is all there is to the territory? It isn’t any different and this is why it is ignorant to attempt to say so.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.
Logic goes like this: Criticize something, and if someone attacks whatever is criticized, shut down the discourse.
Following that logic, pro-black voices should be shut down since stuff like BLM emboldened blacks to rob, loot, and burn down cities(as well as kill each other in higher numbers due to police withdrawal from black areas).
Btw, killings of trannies are rare, and most of them are done by blacks who are enraged by being fooled by trannies in sexual trysts.
Also, homos and trannies are among the biggest collaborators of the Jewish supremacist agenda. Even though Israel commits genocide against Palestinians, all those homos and trannies in CIA and NSA work with Zionists because Israel has huge ‘pride’ parades. And even though US wages Wars for Israel that murdered countless Arabs, homos and trannies are fully on board with the Zionists because Jews favor them.
You weep about a handful of dead trannies(who by the way were killed by a non-binary fatso) but where are your tears about all the Arabs and Muslims killed by Jewish-homo US war machine?
All social capital supervenes upon hierarchical power structures. Supervenes upon is a fancy way of saying ‘comes after’ or ‘follows from’ all of the problems that are happening in the world right now are occurring because of an over concentration of power and wealth into a n increasing minority of families. Pretty soon only a few dynasties will run the whole show. To be clear these ruling elite dynasties comprise every religious and racial identity so don’t think that this is only about ethno-religious concentration of power – it is not.
If doing as much harm to as many people as possible will safeguard the status quo for the ruling class, the ruling class will let it go – they’ll act like they don’t see it, history is chock full of examples of this.
We are in a class war not a pan ethno-religious war, not a sex and gender or race war, this has always been and always will be about class struggle. Until you other half pull your heads out of the sand and stop getting bogged down on the false dichotomy between tolerance versus intolerance, the underclass ie; WORKERS OF THE WORLD, will continue to become easy targets of the ruling elite’s bread and circuses activity.
Both tolerance and intolerance are being used like puppet strings by our corporate masters to enact a despotic despair driven narrative that is simply untrue, a total distraction, in the name of getting us to ignore the increasing theft of the public commons by uber zillionaire ideologues and charlatans.
The rulers are using a counterfeit narrative of there being a divide in order to concoct the next civil war. The rich and powerful always get richer before, during, and after war, and the next World War will concretize the ruling elite’s dynastic existence forever, if it doesn’t destroy the planet first.
To “Andrea”
What or who do you see when you look in the mirror? Does the reflection make you sad, happy, unmoved? Is the image you see in the mirror an abstraction or something else?
What do the following words mean to Andrea?
– openness
– honesty
– humanity
Whenever you point a finger at other things or other people to blame for your misery there is always three fingers pointing back at you.
I am disappointed at the lack of critical analysis from FAIR on this issue. I would remind you that the opioid epidemic, with all its catastrophic harm, began with a genuine concern about another epidemic, chronic pain. Millions of Americans suffer everyday under an unbearable burden of chronic pain, and opioids have been unequivocally proven as an effective means to reduce pain. But what happens when regulations begin to loosen, when corruption rises, or when doctors, out of naivety or genuine concern, are misled about their patients’ needs? What was once of promising solution dissolves into a nightmare. We could easily draw parallels to antidepressants and other such treatment for chronic conditions. It’s very easy to call out malpractice when you are on the other side of it, but much more difficult in the midst of it. At this point, because the potential side effects are so great, any number of de-transitioners should be considered a red flag. The concerns of identity and partisan politics (which seems to be the focus of this article) cannot be a substitution for careful and cautious medicine.