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Parker MolloyThe Washington Poat ran a wildly misleading story on the front page today and I had a bit to say... https://parkerm.co/wapoantitrans
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@parkermolloy WTAF? That poll doesn't even directly address that question! (Sorry, I jumped to the poll and haven't fully read your post yet, though I'm sure you address that very issue..)
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Schroedinger@parkermolloy From what I have seen, it is not misleading.
It is wrong. Incorrect. A lie. Deception.
IAG@parkermolloy What the hell? Just this morning I was thinking about how outlets make their titles as click-baity as possible (for obvious reasons) but because nobody actually wants to read the whole article the misinformative title is what people get upset over. WaPo proving once again that they're a bunch of sensationalists that are turning off the lights on democracy to MAKE it die in darkness.
eagerpebble@iagondiscord @parkermolloy It's not that no one wants to read the whole article. Most people CAN'T because everyone but the far-right media has put paywalls in front of their content. Of course, in this case, the article isn't even much better than the headline, at least as far as I can tell from @parkermolloy's excerpts.
@eagerpebble @parkermolloy Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It's almost as if the articles are written not to inform, but to make the publisher money...
paulmwatson@parkermolloy cisgender white male middle aged South African here; sigh, I’m sorry, I’m enraged, I’m not surprised, I just want us all to get along and I’ll fight to get along and I won’t accept that you’re evil or leading my kids astray or any such nonsense since you’re just another person trying to live.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴"A WaPo Poll Found That Significant Majorities Support Pro-Trans Policies, But Reported The Exact Opposite"
A really strange coincidence for this #newspaper in particular...
Kris Samsel@parkermolloy Divisiveness is billionaires game. Since the truth is the exact opposite. Majority wants GOP to leave all of us alone. Dumbasses never give up.
icasticoI noted the horrible framing and misrepresentation of the results when I read the piece. Very odd.
Iron Curtain (Chiptunes)@parkermolloy This is reason #128,272,323 why when I covered "The Washington Post" by John Philip Sousa, I named it "The Washington Post is a Shitty Newspaper" (or on Spotify/Apple Music/etc., "The Washington Post is a Terrible Newspaper").
Grandpa Don@parkermolloy Excellent article. Good job.
Oh, and WaPo and NYT, once the premier news orgs in US, now suck. AP is vying to be worse than the two combined.
Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACYFrom one respondent: "Is that going to help these young people get a good job or a good spouse?” she asked. “Why would you introduce that subject to children when it has no life skills?”
How about the life skill of treating other humans decently and allowing them to chart out their own paths?
Now civil rights in America are determined by polls. At one one point in our history, most Americans didn't think Blacks should have equal access to apartments, jobs, or swimming pools.
Statmonkey 🙊@parkermolloy They are part and parcel of the fascist oligarchy
M C von Schratz 🏳️⚧️@parkermolloy Interesting. I'd read that article noting a slim majority supported some goofy positions. But hadn't realized the sample size was so small, and really did not realize how many questions were supportive of trans rights. Their conclusion was "America is still figuring this out", but that framing is not helping that process :(
EVHaste@parkermolloy Excellent write up! (Caught it in your newsletter this morning)
I’m shocked that WaPo would blatantly lie about it’s findings, but I guess at this point I shouldn’t be. Are there any news outlets left that *aren’t* feeding into the TERF machine at this point?
Natalie@parkermolloy This is the kind of trash that will further dehumanize trans people. Disgusting.
SJ Rozan@parkermolloy Coming at the subject from a different angle, yes, the headline’s misleading but why does it even matter how many people support trans rights? How many White southerners supported Black rights after Reconstruction? Did the lack of support mean Jim Crow laws were okay? The Constitution, as long as we’re still using it, guarantees everyone equal protection. Everyone. Not just the people the majority of Americans want to give it to.