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Yeah, I figured that wasn't an implication you were deliberately making

And in sight when it was happening! Crystal clear the whole time

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"In hindsight"!?

The New York Times is not anyone’s friend except fascists and billionaires

Right up there with their bloodthirsty baying for the invasion of Iraq

yet another reminder that you don't hate the NYT enough, you just think you do.

Yup.

Scratch a liberal…

And yet it was obvious at the time but people didn't give a fuck because it was happening to a minority that it's considered laudable to hate.

In plain sight and during-sight it was and is vile.

She's gonna rot in hell for sure.

It’s why I cancelled my subscription

I'm sad to say it took until I was nearly 40 to realize that marginalized groups see the hate more clearly than I can. I wish I could go back in time, shut myself up, and make me listen more.

Honest question… what did I miss? What did Bazelon do?

Yes except lots of people on here didn't need hindsight to know where this was headed

Thank you, Jesse Singal doesn't get called out enough.

It was pretty obvious at the time too and completely disgusting

These are not liberals, never were. There are a handful of upper east Anita Bryants driving the transphobic coverage.

iirc, it really kicked off with those articles by Chait

Bazelon should be shamed forever for this

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Repeatedly, because conservative white men keep hiring and promoting mediocre "affirmative action" legacy hires: "Six - SIX! - “lifelong Democrats” and “former Obama” are actually elected Republicans" "New York Times' ongoing "undecided young voters" focus group works at a Republican consulting

That was a really good article, and the reason I won't pay NYT anymore. They are on the maga side. Do they believe the maga kool-aide or is it just about greed? Why does media support someone with those bigoted and ignorant policies who would fine, imprison, or even kill them? Racism and greed?

Brought to you by economic anxiety.

i genuinely don’t get why the “pretend a…” thing isn’t a straight up instant career-ender. it’s so obviously deceitful??

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Lmao my dilbert-guy-following Bernie-to-trump former coworker trotted that example out. I found her FB profile and screenshotted the punisher skulls and confederate flags. Huge L for the NYT

I mean, it's also the same playbook the pig of the pornhub hit piece used to interview the spokeperson of the totally-not-cristofascist ogranization as a neutral expert Or the same they used for all those roundups with undecided voters so much on the fence they all sounded like campaign operatives.

Pretty funny that you can say this but there were a LOT of trans folks and allies and so forth that got booted a few months back for saying this same shit

The poster doesn't even try to link the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally with Confederate statues. The poster art is taken from old Soviet poster art for the Leninist youth organization Komsomol. They're clearly reappropriating vanguardist imagery for the far right.

Late to this, but excellent work (& timely, see Peters’ DSA article www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/n... )

Ugh. I'm so sick of people hiding explicit support for cruel ideas behind the veil of "just asking questions." Quit acting like you're playing Devil's advocate and own your shitty opinion.

Fire 20 people tops and it's not a transphobic paper anymore. Unfortunately you know the names and why that's unlikely.

Maybe she was always like this and I didn't notice, but Bazelon seems to be one of those people who broke their brain when schools went remote during COVID. It's kind of a "I must protect all the children" thing, but in a weird Holden Caulfield way.

This should not take hindsight to appreciate.

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"Hindsight" simply means you didn't listen to the trans people and allies who've been telling you exactly this for a few years now. Or if not that, perhaps the fact that The Onion has had an evergreen for it since before current management took over?

In hindsight? It was obviously and objectively despicable as it was happening.

You didn’t even need hindsight. It was just as bad watching it in real time.

“In hindsight” bro…

The NYT already has a staggering amount of blood on their hands.

absolutely agree. Fuck @nytimes.com

In Hindsight? I’ve been getting people to cancel their subscriptions over it for years!

I’m an ardent and passionate supporter of trans-rights, with my own kid and lots of friends at risk. But to be completely honest, I simply don’t understand this … my aging mind is just unable to parse this — what did the NYT do here? Explain it to be like I’m a five year-old.

Riki Wilchins's BAD INK: How the New York Times Sold Out Transgender Teens (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2024) is required reading on how we got to where we are.

It was despicable in real time too

It was pretty obvious to anyone with foresight or regular sight as well

Actually prefer wsj to whatever NYT is trying. You know what are getting. Outright manipulation is not seen in wsj.

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I don't know.The months of hard work they put into electing and re-electing Trump, and normalizing his behavior, is upstream of the anti-trans campaign and the lawless Supreme Court.

Absolutely. But it’s the same newspaper who called Hitler’s antisemitism “campaign tactics”, as they treats him like a normal politician deep into the 1930s. Same fascism curious DNA, different player.

Let us never forget this same publication bending over backwards to publish the complete fabrication about Hamas sexual violence on 10/7. Also not amazing on Trump. The NYT should plunge into irrelevance and insolvency for their crimes against journalism.

I've been screaming this for a decade and no one listened

Any entity, including the NYT, that softpedals bigots, fascists and transphobes and gives them a mainstream platform is bigoted, fascist, and transphobic. So think about that when subscribing to Wordle or Cooking....

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The nyt has done a hard right turn. And all because they got upset at the idea that trans people or Palestinians should deserve human rights.

working there is a permanent stain

The Onion’s all-time hall of fame is absolutely stacked but this is still near the top.

I have truly come to believe the NYT is simply a malevolent actor in our society.

I disagree. The media is always this despicable. The Red Scare, The Gay Plague, the media and its propaganda led to the Japanese American internment camps. While what they are doing is terrible, it is nothing new for the media in the United States.

They didn't do this for money. They did it because they're a bunch of snide jerks who think trans civil rights activists are sad freaks who deserve to be bullied. It's not deeper than that. I mean, besides the actual conservative activists like Bari Weiss.

a whooooole lot lot of us saw this in foresight btw

It's definitely worth putting up there with Hearst and the Spanish-American War.

The Right always needs an enemy to vilify, preferably one at a time, so the hate is concentrated, not diluted. In 2016 it was Muslims.

They are just fascists and not even in disguise anymore. They do the same shit with the genocide, doing everything in their power to frame it as justified

anyone who pays to play wordle is complicit

They will respond to the loss of audience, share, advertising and circulation revenue etc. Little else.

Fascism since it's inception was a bastardization of Socialism. Fascism much like Socialism is a political ideology that is a response to the failures of Capitalism. Socialism points to the correct enemy, Fascism distracts with social issues and minorities to cover the wealthy powerful from scorn.

It’s one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription

But people doing good work are ghettoized into investigative feature work, which makes a one-day splash but is simply not carried through into their day-to-day political coverage. It’s like Peters and Maggie Haberman don’t read their own paper.

I think it's the Times's vast reach and resources and its long history that give it legitimacy. Given that there are so few journalism jobs left, I wouldn't blame the people doing the best they can under the Times's leadership.

One the victims of Rosenthal's homophobia, the great reporter and editor and technology maven Rich Meislin, was one of my first bosses at the NYT, and he remained a close friend. www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/b...

Teeing up another D wipeout in ‘26 I see. Might as well get an early start, eh? Guaranteeing the Rs four years of political dominance is likely going to help trans people tons

The science is bad because the methodology was bad, it's easily demonstrable. For someone accusing others of "thought terminating cliches" you seem to be trying to shut down criticism without understanding it, take a chill pill and come back when you want to learn something about science.