Lefty loons take on the loony NYT
Soleil Ho, restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, is upset. No, nobody substituted tap water for coconut water in his Gà Roti chicken. The New York Times published something he did not like. Well, we cannot have any of that.
Ho wrote, “The Times has devoted an inordinate amount of front-page space — an incredible 15,000 words, according to a widely shared piece by Popula editor Tom Scocca — to ‘the notion that trans youth present a looming problem.’
“What’s the real crisis when decades of progress on reproductive freedom are being slashed by the Supreme Court? Trans people.”
The Nation had a completely different take. It portrayed transsexuals as the most important people in the world in a piece with the subhead, “The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.”
Spoiler alert: Yes, the piece says NYT is “on the wrong side of history.” Oh, the horror.
But before we get into that, let us look at Ho. As you may have guessed, Ho is as confused about his sex as Richard Levine, who now goes by the name Rachel. Ho calls himself non-binary which he believes gives him moral superiority over those of us who know who we are and what biology is.
His newspaper noted in his bio, “Ho worked as a freelance food and pop culture writer, as a podcast producer on the Racist Sandwich, and as a restaurant chef.” Racist sandwich? Give a lefty enough time and he will find racism in anything. Ho is fighting white supremacist bread.
In this column, Ho wrote, “What’s the real censorship problem when state governments and school boards around the country are banning books about race and gender diversity? Trans people.”
Parents are not banning books. They merely are keeping perverts from giving the books to pre-pubescent children. Of course, Ho’s whole column — “The New York Times can’t stop doubling down on its dangerous obsession with trans people” — is an attempt to censor anyone who dares criticize those who want to turn boys into girls and girls into boys.
Ho wrote, “This week, a group of current and former New York Times contributors — trans, nonbinary and cis people alike — published an open letter calling out the paper for editorial bias in its coverage of trans issues. It was sent alongside a similar letter coordinated by leading LGBT organizations and leaders, including GLAAD and PFLAG National. With a signature count of more than 30,000 (including supporters) as of Friday, the contributor letter lambasts the paper’s coverage as rife with misrepresentation of biased sources, cherry-picking of anecdotal evidence and an overall casting of gender diversity as the newest, hottest culture war in the United States at the expense of real people seeking gender-affirming care.”
Oh no. They placed a letter in NYT’s permanent record.
The Nation cut to the chase and went to what this is about: ending objective journalism. It took another swipe at Abe Rosenthal, the last grown-up at the paper.
The Nation wrote, “Rosenthal, who led the Times from 1969 to 1986, is perhaps most frequently remembered now for something he adamantly refused to do: cover the LGBTQ rights movement, particularly the AIDS crisis, with the scope or respect it deserved. (The epitaph on his tombstone, HE KEPT THE PAPER STRAIGHT, now seems like a sick joke.)
“Instead, the Times under Rosenthal kept queer people at arm’s length. It even refused to use the word gay in its pages until June 1987, doggedly sticking to the more clinical homosexual. And it underplayed the spread of AIDS, waiting nearly two years after its first, now-legendary item broaching the subject to run a story about AIDS on its front page.”
Lefties don’t just piss on your grave. They dig up your bones and take a dump.
Management at NYT is a tad upset by the rebellion, but management encouraged it by caving in to the staff in 2020. The Washington Post reported, “After staff uproar, New York Times says Sen. Tom Cotton op-ed urging military incursion into U.S. cities ‘did not meet our standards.’”
To appease the anti-free speech journalists at the paper, NYT fired the editorial page editor who OK’d publishing the Cotton column. Libeling Sarah Palin did not cost him his job. Letting a senator explain his position did. Even hinting that there are two sides to the story is not allowed in Soviet America.
Ho mentioned the Popula column, “Why Is the New York Times So Obsessed With Trans Kids?” Instead of explaining to readers that trans is in the news, hence the news coverage, Popula went all-in on an attack on NYT, which is why the Good Lord and Orville Reddenbacher gave us popcorn: to enjoy watching the trainwreck.
In it, Tom Scocca wrote, “That cumulative figure of 15,000 words doesn’t include the 11,000 or so words the New York Times Magazine devoted to a laboriously evenhanded story about disagreements over the standards of care for trans youth; or the 3,000 words of the front-page story from its designated anti-wokeness-beat reporter, Michael Powell, on whether trans women athletes are unfairly ruining the competition for other women; or the 1,200 words of the front-page story by Powell on how trans interests are banning the word woman from abortion-rights discourse; or the various expressions of polite skepticism or open hostility toward trans interests from opinion-page columnists like Michelle Goldberg (fretting about ‘progressive taboos around discussing some of the thornier issues involved in treating young people with gender dysphoria’) or Pamela Paul (citing Powell to argue that trans-rights supporters ‘deny women their humanity, reducing them to a mix of body parts and gender stereotypes’).”
Those last 15 words of that 147-word sentence sum up the battle between feminists and transsexuals. The former fought stereotypes; the latter seeks them. But the transsexuals are indignant when anyone points out that the changes they seek are cosmetic. Cosmetic surgery cannot make a man a woman or a woman a man.
Pointing this out got Lou Reed’s ode to transsexuals, Walk on the Wild Side, banned a few years ago. When it came out 50 years, conservatives ignored it instead of calling for a ban. Liberals now want it banned.
The Independent reported on May 22, 2017, “The Guelph Central Student Association, a group at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, issued an apology for including the song on a playlist at a campus event.” The objection was to the lyric:
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she.
There really was a Holly — Holly Woodlawn — and that is what he/she did. The truth bothers lefties. NYT’s coverage reveals the dark truth that transsexual surgery and hormone pill-popping have a downside.
James Factora of them wrote, “Beyond normalizing false and dangerous rhetoric around trans people, the paper’s reporting has also been used in numerous court cases to defend anti-trans bills and laws, as the letter points out. For example, an amicus brief filed in defense of Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act last year cited three New York Times articles.”
The truth hurts. And lefty hurt matters more than the truth these days. J.K. Rowling saying men cannot be women has caused some heat for her, but being a billionaire gives her insulation and not having to write gives her time to fight back.
She wrote, “Huge numbers of women are justifiably terrified by the trans activists; I know this because so many have got in touch with me to tell their stories. They’re afraid of doxxing, of losing their jobs or their livelihoods, and of violence.
“But endlessly unpleasant as its constant targeting of me has been, I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it. I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who’re standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile teenagers, and women who’re reliant on and wish to retain their single sex spaces. Polls show those women are in the vast majority, and exclude only those privileged or lucky enough never to have come up against male violence or sexual assault, and who’ve never troubled to educate themselves on how prevalent it is.”
Putting a rapist in women’s prisons just because the rapist claims to be a woman is beyond wrong; it is evil. It also shows how much the left values women: zip. The feminist movement was merely a conduit for expanding the left’s power.
Given Rowling’s embrace of lefty politics — an indulgence billionaires can afford — makes me enjoy watching her fend off the monsters she helped create. Ditto the New York Times. Just as lefty journalists should have read up on The Boy Who Cried Wolf before engaging in relentless attacks on Trump, so Rowling, NYT and other lefty propagandists should have read The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Eventually, the mops and pails of water of social justice turn on you.
The threats against them are becoming violent. The New York Post reported on Saturday, “Trans author Gretchen Felker-Martin said she wants to slit J.K. Rowling’s throat in since-deleted tweet.” Lefties are in denial of their desire to silence critics by any means the left deems necessary.
Ho wrote, “As a nonbinary person with the good fortune of living in San Francisco, I don’t experience anything close to the violence and harassment experienced by my trans siblings. But what I can say is that, long before I summoned up the courage to deal with my own sense of self, my experience with the trans community as an ally has been one of openness, inclusivity and patience — not the cult-like, anti-science rigidity one might assume of the community from reading the Times’ coverage.”
Just remember, the crimes the left projects on us are the ones they commit.
Also remember, the left is never satisfied — something NYT executives should know by now but apparently need to be taught again.
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In case you missed it, how a president boards an airplane. (Hit the photo in the middle, otherwise you get the poodle on the red chair.)
How an imposter does it. (Hit the photo in the middle, otherwise you get the poodle on the red chair.)
Remember when SNL mocked the hell out of President Ford’s clumsiness? In the 21st century, that won’t happen to Biden.
Today, it’s the trans groomers. Tomorrow, the left will be on to some as yet unknown cause and the trans crowd will be left in the dust, irrelevant to the left.
As Michael Savage said and wrote, liberalism is a mental disorder.
Too much truth Don. I can't find a single line I can't nod at! Great column and lots of reminders. I'd say let the progressives stew in their own juices, but I really hope they realize their idiocy before idiocracy becomes a full reality.