Between 2.5- 3 million, 1% of the country so even worse. Sorry to well actually (it just came up today at a trans rally and I never realized there were that many)
“first, they came for a vulnerable minority already targeted with disproportionate violence, and I did not speak out, but i did write an New York Times editorial saying I can’t say it was consequential, since so few lives were materially affected, especially not mine”
And I mention RPDR not to equate being trans to drag but becuse a good number of the girls are trans.
Where is the fandom? I had to look at all those memes for so many years and now it seems like it’s crickets about protecting the very women they claimed to worship.
I almost give them credit for fully going mask off. It has always been clear trans lives don't truly matter to a lot of these people, but they rarely say so so explicitly
This dip saw the episode of the Good Place where Chidi says, "if All that matters is the sum total of goodness, then you can justify any number of bad actions" and responded with "sounds great!"
Naming and shaming: Megan Stack wrote that copy. Also, Daniel McCarthy, Ross Douthat, David French and Matthew Schmitz ranked the impact of transphobia as "beneficial."
This motherfucker really said “things that hurt minorities matter less because they only affect minorities”. I’d like to punch them in the face but they probably wouldn’t care since only a very small portion of their body would be damaged
Trans people should have equal rights because they are people who deserve dignity but also these NYT guys are the people in the coal mine that say "who gives a fuck about the canary? It's just a bird!"
You could say the same about Emmett Till and other post-WWII lynchings and people would rightfully call you a soulless monster. The numerality of oppression has never mattered.
its barely utilitarianism. if they understood utilitarianism - or politics - they would know that scapegoating a group is a sign of failed policy and condemned by utilitarianism since a greater good could be achieved by implementing functional policy.
Watching all this as a trans person who fucking upended my life and fled the country because of the threat this administration poses and continuing to see trans rights ripped away faster and faster back home this is so beyond fucked up
But do people pay to subscribe to rage bait that gets them angry at the outlet? You’d think the angry unsubscribers would outweigh the value of rage-clicks??
As a member of the trans community, I can assure you the damage that has been done is far more substantial than this chart indicates. They are definitely out of touch.
Has anyone got a gift link or the list of who made these "ratings"? I canceled my 35-year subscription in December, and would love to see the names of the people I'd supported all that time, and who I proudly no longer support. Thanks!
In their mind anything that isnt a straight cis white male is "wOkE dEi" so obviously they see elimination of it as a good thing. Best country in the world my ass.
They're not centrists. They bullied their trans writers for sharing their opinions while platforming transphobes. They might think they're centrists, but anyone that thinks that is ignorant of their biases and simply assumes that everyone agrees with them. Fuck the New York Times
I mean they *think* they're liberal. Calling them centrist is certainly being gentle, but saying they *think* they're centrist is also severely underselling how self-deluded they are.
Yeah, thousands of people will lose their jobs in the military due to their identity, incorrect passport markers might make it harder for people to travel, trans people are being blocked from getting visas. But the 10 trans athletes playing in the NCAA have been kicked out so… NET POSITIVE.
The NYT: Demonstrating as clearly as we can how the right is simply trying to convince us that eating their shit is really not that bad if it's not the biggest piece of shit one could be eating.
(Hint to NYT: being apologists for fundamental fascist tropes means you are fascists)
I love how they lie that the only anti-trans policy in place is the sports wedge issue, and not the passports, visas, healthcare for minors, and mass expulsions from government. Worthless rag of a paper.
I'm not really sure what is gained by collapsing all these views into one "average". It gives the impression that there's some kind of statistical or analytical rigour here that doesn't exist.
Like, obviously cultural conservatives are going to love Trump's "anti-DEI" crusade and liberals are going to hate it. You can't average those two perspectives together and say "well on balance, as you can see, Trump's war on DEI is actually slightly good!".
This is why The Onion can't even do satire anymore because this looks exactly like a graph they'd have made to joke about how ppl feel but don't usually outright admit.
I think we should push to get all Dems to skip Trump’s speech on Tuesday in protest. Can you help get this thread started if you agree? Why show respect to a man who doesn’t respect the Constitution, the American people, our allies, democracy or the office he holds?
I think they MIGHT be saying DEI is showing it's important by like how Target sales are down and various shareholders are rejecting anti-DEI policy, but it's still a dogshit and arbitrary chart
These are the same people who also charted that Trans Issues are of no consequence.
So I seriously doubt that they are excited about a new “Spirited Debate” about workplace equality that will lead increased diversity, excellence and resiliency in our nation.
I think DEI is more on brand for them at least. I don't think they've pretended to care about trans people, even though that should fall under the bucket of DEI
Yeah…trans rights is also like…right there. Every one of my trans siblings have had horrible months since this administration came into power and to say it’s inconsequence and boarding on positive is a fucking slap to our already reddened faces.
I don't see the value in this chart. Do the NYT editors really sit around making charts like this so they can figure out what to put in the paper? WTF is going on in journalism nowadays??
What mattered to *who*? LGBTQ people and those who love them would like a word. It’s been a while since the U.S. government actively terrorized an innocent group of Americans.
I would love to know who made @nytopinion.nytimes.com the country's "paper of record?" They've always had their heads jammed firmly up their anal cavities.
What. The. Fuck. This whole exercise is fucked up. If I could only note one thing, and that’s hard, anti-DEI falls on the positive side of the ledger? Are you fucking kidding me?
The trans issue is also shocking. “Less impactful”. I am not trans. I do not have trans people in my family. But I know trans kids and their families. And I would never, ever, discount the incredible impact Trump’s actions have on that community, which is MY community. Also, who says you’re not next
Here are the writers. So it all tracks. I am always curious where a person draws the line between “them” and “not them”. The closer that line is to the person, the worse their opinions tend to be. It all matters. It all matters tremendously to humanity.
holy crap tressie joined? i knew she was shitty to anyone left of Biden but I had thought she would know better than to join the fuckin NYT after all her experiences with trying to advocate for improved standards for colleges and the NYT being elitist assholes about that specifically
The note at the bottom is hiding something—why did some opinion writers fail to opine on all the topics? Did they object? Did they reject the outcome because the group is stacked with conservatives? Something is off there
I don't think trans people are allowed to write for NYT, because not being a cis het white right wing man is activism. (again /s /s /s.) (And if there are trans people at the NYT, I'm so sorry you have to work with such terrible people.)
If you're an underachieving white dude, like the guy who quite literally did not qualify for the position of the black military guy he was replacing, but still got his job. Then yeah, it's a big positive impact in your life.
The content presents the trends of their own NY Times columnists, and those in this thread are pissed that DEI and Trans issues aren't taken seriously by those columnists.
Why are the people who ran constant coverage of Bidens age but not Trumps not your enemy? Same for a plagiarism story about a black lady. Same for constant anti trans coverage. Same for supporting literally every war.
They have some good journalists, and constantly push bad opinion instead.
If you think a paper of record endorsing overt white supremacy as a positive development and saying the violent persecution of trans is neither here nor there, there is hate in your heart, and you have sided with the oppressor.
There's pretty clearly no "our" here. They're plainly stating who their enemies are, and if you look at this and you're not among them then you're not on "our" side.
“trans issues are less consequential.” I’m literally prepping to flee the US. I’ve had to talk two friends down from suicide twice since january because they feel like they have not where to go anymore. These people are sick, rotten vultures with no souls
What a bunch of goddamn idiots. They better hope they don’t get cancer or an infectious disease since musk and RFK Junior are killing all science in our country.
Right, but didn’t NYT normalize/humanize Hitler during his rise too?
Maybe the folks who talk the merits of Hitler and Naziism—At any point in history—are full of shit and not authorities on any kind of information or knowledge
Just yesterday I saw someone making this exact same argument for Kanye West (pictured in his swastika t-shirt), up until the part about the organization.
The fact that they put D.E.I. There at all, and had the audacity to call it a "positive change" is proof of some dickead racist coward higher up decision, just like bezos made , is in effect at NYT opinion
I just said this about THW defending Wayne Gretzky, but this is fucking embarrassing. The NYT is not a serious paper and these people can all get fucked.
When you're a journalist that doesn't give a shit about being a journalist it's probably a simple pivot onto the tracks of the Trump dick riding express
Given where they have the axes on this map, I’d say they’re still saying it’s bad that he did the anti-trans stuff, but that it’s inconsequential. Likely because most trans people live in blue states by now and those states are (as of yet) still protecting our rights.
The so called established press died a while ago and is flatlining. This style of punditry, often predicated on warped normality and absent any social values has been offensive to me for a long time
They're ransacking each and every part of the government that keeps the country stable under the guise of 'ending DEI' and these people are stupid enough to place it as low consequence and POSITIVE impact?? Despicable.
The Times at its self-indulgent worst, supposedly critical of Trump but in such a trivial, navel-gazing way that the criticism has no vitality or impact. Pathetic.
DEI had a positive impact? Erasing trans people, firing top military brass who are Black or have vaginas, cutting aid for people with disabilities is GOOD? Fuck you, NYT.
The teacher returns the essay back to the ten with a giant red INCOMPLETE on the front along with a circle around the graph followed by a SHOW YOUR WORK
Even if you were to be a ghoul and take a completely selfish world view, how do they not understand that trans rights and immigrants are the wedge issues that the MAGA base was built on to achieve all its other terribleness.
This graph is insane when you realize that "DEI" is listed here with "positive impact" and even if you think "DEI" policies were overblown, this government has used "DEI" as a keyword to justify pure race-oriented and gender-oriented segregation.
i wonder why they care about one unjust war of expansionist agression (Russia in Ukraine) more than twice as much as they do another (Israel's genocidal campaign on Palestine) when one has far higher civilian casualties ?? picrel
Trans issues as inconsequential and verging on positive impact is an insidious thing to say in response to what he’s already done.
I hated the NYT before, now I can be sure that anybody who associates with them is an active threat to my life and the life of my friends. Vile. Utterly evil.
How does that fucking NYT blowhard still work for a company that thinks he should be a second class citizen? My dude. Your coworkers think you shouldn’t have rights. What the fuck is wrong with you?
looks like most of them have rich parents and only got into state schools, matty schmitz went to princeton, but that is only further proof to me that princeton and yale are like the dangerous nice guys of the ivy+ institutions. regardless, this is what happens when english majors try to make a graph
A game where the NYT puts abolishing DEI (IE, firing any women, people of color, and LGBT people), trans people, and government oversight (deregulation) on the *positive* end of the spectrum.
Damn... Seeing his DEI initiatives as the sole item on the "positive" side is a pretty damning indictment of American racism and misogyny... "We hate everything he's doing except the racist shit, that stuff is pretty great".
Since deregulation isn’t a bad thing to these fucking Nazi chuds, I say we duct tape a hose tied to a running car exhaust to their mouths. Who the fuck needs clean air?
the longer people keep giving the new york times air in respectable discourse for literally any reason (Including Sharing Whatever Good Journalism Gets Piped Through There) the longer this shit continues to have weight. NYT is fox news for centrists, it needs to be treated like fox news
And getting rid of them is positive apparently. 🤷♀️Folks, this is how Trump happened. A prevailing sentiment within the national elite that is actually far more bigoted across the board than the people espousing it think it is.
It’s a pretty common mindset for the average cis. They moan about politicians wasting time when our rights take even the tiniest step forward (”we got bigger problems than trans issues”) & then keep their mouths shut when we are under attack. We’re a small minority, our lives don’t matter to them.
On a scale from 0-10, this chart is a definitive 0.
It is what exactly?
10 columnists and writers whose opining? OR
10 columnists and writer pining for their own significance?
This whole endeavour is fucked but it’s just lovely to discover that halting USAID only has a mildly negative impact. But why would millions of non-Americans be of any significance
Someone got up my butt last week for saying the New York Times was shit and shouldn't be given a dollar and I want to use this screenshot of Nazi laundering, life-gamifying horseshit and shove it down their throat.
Journalists aren't subject matter experts on policy matters. Their opinions/perspectives on policy implications are like consulting with a Proctologist about your upcoming open heart surgery. Why would you do that? They don't have the experience or the smarts...they're just reporters.
If you think removing trans rights has a positive impact, then you are exactly the type of enemy we’re fighting to get rid of in this country. Fucking fools can’t read the writing on the walls so we may as well ban the NYT for their hateful content
may the people who thought of that, who wrote that up, and who published it all develop a stage iv malignancy in their entire fucking skulls tomorrow morning.
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USA doesn't ever deserve to recover from Trump. Ever.
- Not Pastor Neimoller
Have these people ever met the one out of ten mothers of trans kids who didn’t kick them out? They are feral.
How about chasers in therapy?
Slobbering to be nights in shining armor.
And fuck; the RPDR fandom alone.
Where is the fandom? I had to look at all those memes for so many years and now it seems like it’s crickets about protecting the very women they claimed to worship.
I could be wrong!
motherfucker, ONE is too many as it is!!
I'm drunk and high as opposed to just drunk like I usually am.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp555xy5ro.amp
that's a price of eggs joke. I write for this publication
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/01/opinion/trump-administration-first-month.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k4.8swU.RCP_voGJ_Opf&smid=url-share
Also "trans issue inconsequential". Yeah sure thanks NYT. "Preparations for Genocide inconsequential". What a fucking joke of a paper.
Genocide inconsequential per the NYT - just reason #167 not to read/subscribe to their shit paper!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/01/opinion/trump-administration-first-month.html?login=email&auth=login-email
No. No but. F that guy.
(Hint to NYT: being apologists for fundamental fascist tropes means you are fascists)
Also, “Americans”… we aren’t the only ones that matter. Zero actual morals.
Oh and fuck the Times!
Wish I had a NYT subscription so I could cancel it again.
@nytimes.com you are trash.
Obviously none of it affects them directly
Also for being right.
So I seriously doubt that they are excited about a new “Spirited Debate” about workplace equality that will lead increased diversity, excellence and resiliency in our nation.
DEI = good means that DEI itself is a good, or the "issue" (dismantling and snitching) is good?
Same goes for many others.
This is just embarrassing graphics.
I still think that it’s heavily implied that they think the negative discourse on DEI is good for America
But they could be saying “ ‘DEI’ ” is a good thing that we have been doing some reporting on”
Either way, NYT has shown its racist ass alot recently, so fuck em.
This is just dumb stacked on gross.
All they talk about is “controversial trans atheletes” and sometimes the military when they have to
Its not “landlords forcibly evicting trans tenants” or “employers discriminating against trans applicants.”
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Of course that's basically what the New York Times has become.
cc @lizdye.bsky.social
you’ve coined a timely term.
Paying for their puzzles means you’re paying for their racism.
Click baiting, nothing to do with real reporting.
The complete antithesis of what NYT should be doing in this moment
@nytimes.com, whitewashing Trump, since 2016.
*being white men
Merit based employment. Yaaaay...
The content presents the trends of their own NY Times columnists, and those in this thread are pissed that DEI and Trans issues aren't taken seriously by those columnists.
They have some good journalists, and constantly push bad opinion instead.
DEI deletion see as a positive.
Transrights removal view as inconsequential.
They are ghouls.
Trans rights being labeled "inconsequential"...
Removing DEI being considered a "positive"...
What a goddamn bunch of fucking assholes.
Fuuuuuuck these ppl.
Maybe the folks who talk the merits of Hitler and Naziism—At any point in history—are full of shit and not authorities on any kind of information or knowledge
Or how can trans rights be simultaneously inconsequential AND a very positive impact on society when erased?
Not defending NYT, though.
I only do the free versions but I don't even know if I want to give the NYT traffic
you can live without wordle and spelling bee I PROMISE
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003499613-Cancel-Your-Subscription
How the hell are "consequential" and "impact" on different axis?
I see people saying fuck @nytimes.com, but I honestly don't think that goes far enough.
So, congratulations NYT, y'all are a buncha funts who should be punted into the sun.
Fuck all y'all with a stolen dick, you swimming pool of syphilitic spunk.
“We’ve asked voters which floor mattered more to them when they were running out of a burning building.”
Probably belongs in the "bad" quadrant, but I don't have the massive brain power of NYT columnists.
Thus demonstrating that their opinions are absolute dogshit.
Next: What the sports desk like for a snack.
I hated the NYT before, now I can be sure that anybody who associates with them is an active threat to my life and the life of my friends. Vile. Utterly evil.
In-house polls and out-house voxpops should be capital crimes.
These fucking guys.
"Government regulation of any kind is BAD...
... unless I like it, then it's good"
Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.
It is what exactly?
10 columnists and writers whose opining? OR
10 columnists and writer pining for their own significance?