Jessica Kant
Yeah, just to be crystal clear on this, on behalf of #Trans people working in #TransHealth everywhere: one of the reasons we feel constantly under attack is the NYT editorial board. I'm glad they ran this story, but nothing grinds my gears more than when centrist media outlets who have previously traded trans lives for clicks publish "why is this happening?" think pieces, as if it's some unanswerable question. https://archive.ph/Nhauz #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransHealth
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Show threadJessica KantDec 13, 2022
As someone who monitors and tracks anti-trans rhetoric closely — while also living and working every day at the epicenter of this nightmare, the way extremists celebrated after the NYT ran its first hit piece was unreal. You'd think they'd all won scratchers midway through electing a new king on Christmas. We didn't just get here because of Fox or the GOP. We got here because capitalist legacy news media saw a chance to stay relevant.
Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant The perpetrators asking ‘I wonder how we got here?’ after metaphorically driving the truck straight into the crowd really irk me. The NYT is deeply complicit. They double down on the anti-trans pieces, repeat them incessantly, milk the reactions for clicks, & then publish this nonsense after the fact? Terrible.
Show threadJessica KantDec 13, 2022
@ghoshuvo it's offensive given how much damage they've done
Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant 💯
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Dec 13, 2022

@jessdkant @ghoshuvo

Gods, and it's everywhere. The BBC needs no introduction for their gold medal in the 'we have no idea where all this hate speech came from' Olympics, but up here we've got the CBC pulling the same thing with mealy-mouthed interviews of hand-wringing, Helen Lovejoy-esque school board nominees who have pledged to eliminate 'wokeism' in all its forms while driving nails into the tires of board members.

Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 20, 2022
@theogrin @jessdkant Indeed! I find the both-sidesing mainstream media to be almost pathologically sycophantic of neoliberalism in all its forms. They suck up to whosoever is in power and lack integrity. It’s really sad. M
Show threadGrandma’s High Again 🙄Dec 13, 2022
@jessdkant
Show threadMorganDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant same vibes as YouTube tweeting for trans awareness week that they love trans creators or something like that
Show threadJessica KantDec 13, 2022
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Show threadRonja A-R (e/em/eir ; hen)Dec 13, 2022

@raphaelmorgan @jessdkant

What YouTube recently did to Kat Blaque was inexcusable. They advertized her as a participant in a creator happening, flew her out and then let her sit at her hotel without any further info on where to be or when. So she missed the whole thing.

There's a longish text from her 1 mo ago on her channel's Community tab that I cannot copy a link to on my phone.

This video is her even more raw, while-it-all-happened report:

https://youtu.be/3WeHPOwn9Vo

My abusive relationship with YouTube

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Show threadHalf Cocked LawDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant "Feel Under Siege" are weasel words. Trans people don't just feel that way, they *are* under attack.
Show threadJessica KantDec 13, 2022
@halfcocked right??? What a grossly invalidating frame
Show threadinsurrectowolfDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant
More now than ever we all need to get strapped
Show threadChris Helming  Dec 13, 2022
@jessdkant "feel" under siege? I think we're at the "are" stage of this timeline.
Show threadJessica KantDec 13, 2022
@chelming yeah this is the both-sidesing that really irks me
Show threadSarah SaraiDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant NYT keeps a foot on the conservative pedal. They always have which has always been frustrating. I'm not explaining but offering sympathy.
Show threadBc Clarity Carlton-MartinDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant We are Bagdad NYT shock and awe. That they profit from and like the spectacle of our demise is a mere by-product of money media ploys. It's as if we are designed to be toys and action figures. Not human at all.
Show threadRuby JonesDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant the framing about people 'feeling' under siege rather than just saying that they are is also deeply dubious. That 'feel' is a weasel word any editor would cut if they weren't trying to deliberately cast doubt.
Show threadJessica KantDec 13, 2022
@RubyJones this is the stuff they pull all the time, and frankly it's impossible at this point to suspend disbelief enough to beleive they don't know how destructive it is.
Show threadRuby JonesDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant Yes, they absolutely know.
Show threadJonDec 13, 2022
@jessdkant I wish the Australian media had gotten as far as that, tbh
Show threadTofu GolemDec 14, 2022

@jessdkant
Hey, speaking of the New York "Why is everything polarized now" Times, this opinion piece is very relevant.

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/juliusgoat/issues/polarization-and-strife-922845

Polarization And Strife

When I was a child, they let us out of the classroom twice a day as I recall. You can only hold 25-40 children inside a room the size of an average gas station for so long before the molecule turns unstable and I assume the teacher needs a few stiff drinks, and you can't really have children in the room for that, so out we'd go to scream and pound on each other for a while and hurl ourselves into the air or into walls like sentient superballs, and that was recess—again, as I recall. It was a lo…