Yeah, now that they've seeded enough transphobic propaganda to support the cultural and legislative rationale for our elimination, they want to cash in on the "Resist" angle and decry the climate they were instrumental in constructing. - ThreadSky

taliabhatt.itch.io • 35 days ago

Yeah, now that they've seeded enough transphobic propaganda to support the cultural and legislative rationale for our elimination, they want to cash in on the "Resist" angle and decry the climate they were instrumental in constructing.

Reposted from Natacha

This is interesting, @theatlantic.com, which campaigned viciously and dishonestly for trans people to be persecuted, has actually lifted its ban on non-transphobic reporting to allow Adam Serwer to write an article opposing Trump’s persecution of us.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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pixielauren.bsky.social•35 days ago

Blood on their hands

megagarbage.bsky.social•35 days ago

getting dipped into bubbling hot oil and then lifted up and everyone goes oh my god so horrible we really shouldn't do that and then they dip us again

dyingsignals.love•35 days ago

People are going to lap this shit up uncritically & it’s going to make me want to smash my head into the wall. Basically every piece of mainstream journalism references trans people makes me wanna do that but, yknow.

dyingsignals.love•35 days ago

I hate being in journalism school because just about nothing regarding ethics is actually applied anymore so what’s the point if most journalists are working as PR experts on whatever topic they chose instead.

sammagotchi.bsky.social•35 days ago

The Atlantic is like those firefighters who commit arson because they like the excitement and heroism of going back out with the team to put out the fire

jessdee.bsky.social•35 days ago

To the people expecting the anti trans folks who claim to care about women's issues to do anything like eat crow or apologize or admit they were wrong when this administration begins harshly curtailing women's rights, I say this:

That's not how that works.

jessdee.bsky.social•35 days ago

What they are going to do, when you corner them on their links, on their support for this administration, on the ways they've materially helped make this happen, is *blame us* for it.

They are going to say that *we* are the reason that people chose fascism, *we* are why women's rights rolled back.

jessdee.bsky.social•35 days ago

That *we* are what made everyone else "go crazy". Some of them who understand what's happening and are paying attention here are already doing this. I've noticed an uptick of the phrase "extreme trans activism" in people explaining how this happened.

danifinnwrites.bsky.social•35 days ago

I saw someone the other day say they were canceling their NYT sub to get an Atlantic sub instead and I 🫠

aruviii.bsky.social•35 days ago

Look at this shit lol they have such a non existent history of writing trans friendly things that the (possibly autogenerated) suggested "also read" is phobic fearmongering

taliabhatt.itch.io•35 days ago

Playing both sides to get paid no matter what!!!!!

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

With the added bonus of extra-pay for handing over any Resistance members.

halcyonember.bsky.social•35 days ago

I'm still stunned at the speed of this in the US. The UK is still in the "won't someone stop these paedos" stage.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm not.
Here they removed trans healthcare overnight with little warning.
GRC protections are seemingly ignored, adult healthcare already being rolled back. All with no warning at all.

Trump just did it overtly. Starmer does it behind our backs.

halcyonember.bsky.social•34 days ago

Starmer is too spineless to take a stand. It's people like Wes Streeting doing it, Starmer is just the ineffectual centrist pretending to be in charge.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's happening on his watch, his tenure, and I doubt anything goes through without his agreement.

The buck stops with him.

halcyonember.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh yeah, he's responsible but it's important to be aware of who is actually doing the hard work to fuck us over.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

True, but make no mistake if Streeting was fired tomorrow, Starmer would just shoehorn in another terf to replace him.

kathuryne.bsky.social•35 days ago

I feel like someone should just copy paste the article so we don't send traffic to their site.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

Non-clickbait link to that article:
https://archive.vn/g6p80

kathuryne.bsky.social•34 days ago

Thanks

loukas.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yes. Media organisations are fundamentally marketplaces, rather than actors with a single aim.

7ydy.bsky.social•35 days ago

im not buying it

inplacesdeep.bsky.social•35 days ago

not for a second

ladyaranea.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yep. Not like they're corporate for-profit entities with owners, investors, and executives who set the tone and make decisions as to who to hire as editor and writers.

alicetranarchist.bsky.social•35 days ago

I mean a paper in the UK was doing a podcast of the trial for the murder of a 16 year old trans girl whilst still saying transphobic shit in their paper and ofc they are simply doing it so they can make more money from it by doing both sides reporting.

We are worth more to these fuckers dead.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

You'll be shocked at what rag has latched onto her mother's mindfulness campaign.🙄

ofvick.bsky.social•35 days ago

arachnocommunist.bsky.social•35 days ago

they'll be lobbying hardest for the memorial that deadnames us in 20 years

hexbear.bsky.social•35 days ago

They gave Jesse Smegma a friggin platform! ugh

benjanun.bsky.social•35 days ago

they platformed Smesse Smeagol didn't they

catastro-v.bsky.social•35 days ago

they didnt just platform him, they elevated him into THE go-to cis “journalist” for trans issues

catastro-v.bsky.social•35 days ago

hed been trying to get into the anti-trans journo grift before, but iirc he was stuck writing defenses of child sex abuser and all around queer kid torture enthusiast kenneth zucker—until the atlantic came along and decided this pedophilia apologist was just who they were looking for

benjanun.bsky.social•35 days ago

damn

popeguilty.bsky.social•35 days ago

oh boy, did they ever

bisexualkaiju.bsky.social•35 days ago

Not just platformed him. Platformed him with that infamous cover that used a transmasc enby without their permission.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•34 days ago

And should they catch wind of any "Resistance" they would revert to the transphobic-Atlantic and do everything they could to expose it with the aim of destroying it.

Double Agents all...

billiejsweeney.bsky.social•35 days ago

Cynical manipulation is their driving force

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