If you go looking for other New York Post covers of school shootings, you will not find the gender identity of the shooter featured in the headline, such as HETEROSEXUAL MALE KILLS 60 IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTING Or: GENDER-CONFORMING 18 YEAR OLD KILLS 17 IN UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING
When I was a young reporter at the World-Telegram and Sun in New York starting in 1962, I would pull clips from the morgue and discover stories written this way: "Robert Jones, colored, was arrested today for assault...." Judging by the dates on those clips, I joined the paper only a few years -- five at most -- after that noxious practice ended. (Legend had it that it was dropped when a reporter racially identified everyone in a story as in: "Robert Jones, colored, was arrested today by NYPD officers Bill Smith, white, and Pedro Lopez, Puerto Rican/Mixed Race. He was accused of beating his wife, Mary Jones, colored, in a domestic dispute. A neighbor, Frank Smith, white, called the police to the scene...." I have no way of knowing if the legend is true.). Anyway, it appears that for the right-wing media, "transgender" is the new "colored."
Most people of any segment of society are not violent but this headline would have the readers think trans people are particularly violent which of course is not the case. When the full story comes out it is quite possible the manifesto will show some kind of resentment for the school because of the Christian tendency to make gay people in general feel feel guilty about their orientation. I'm sure that when these kids first realize they are "Different: they don't know why except they probably quickly become aware that certain people hate them for it. Kids quickly catch on to this difference and no doubt that is when the bullying starts. I understand there is a higher rate of depression, subsequent drug abuse and suicide than for the general population. There was a kid in my class at the age of 11 who was always being picked on as he spoke with a sort of lisp and looking back now quite effeminate in his mannerisms. Of course the other kids picked up on this very quickly and would tease him and pick on him. I was not a big kid but was always getting in g fights and I felt sorry for him and defended him, telling the other kids to lay off him. His name was Joe Orton although we knew him as John then, and he became a famous playwright. This was in Leicester, England. Sadly his partner murdered him at the height of his success. We all left school at age 14 back then. It was raised to 15 the following year. But that was the extent of my limited education, Here is John's (Joe's) Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Orton
They want a scapegoat for their brownshirted helots. Terrifying. My partner and I flashed back to JFK's assassination and how horrified we were when Jack Ruby turned out to be Jewish. Get an outgroup. Blame the outgroup. Kill members of the outgroup. It enables the brownshirts to feel safe. But they never are, and no blood sacrifice is ever enough.
I have a transgender child, and this headline is illustrative of the breathtaking transphobia which runs rampant in our nation. How dare they! If they are going to use gender identity to sell papers, they should identify the 99.9% of shooters as cisgenders.
Identifying gender is such a disgusting trait that is becoming more frequent these days. A NY Times review of a Justin Peck ballet during the winter found it necessary to identify the male in a pas de deux as using gender neutral pronouns .When it comes to a shooting, what difference does gender make if a person uses a gun to kill another human ? Will we suddenly start identifying the gender of every gun owner?
Lucian, don't be too hard on old Rupert. After all, he's got an empire to hold on to and he needs to appeal to as many of his readers as possible (assuming his readers can actually read). Faux news & Faux nation are long beyond the point of no return. They've got their own imagined axe to grind and this is the way they do it. Just appeal to the those who are easily led by the nose and cannot think for themselves, and rake in the $$$. What a sick organization.
In the wake of a transgender shooter targeting a Christian school and murdering kids, every American should know the threat of Antifa driven trans-terrorism.
Twitter should not whitewash the incitement of politically motivated violence.
When I was a young reporter at the World-Telegram and Sun in New York starting in 1962, I would pull clips from the morgue and discover stories written this way: "Robert Jones, colored, was arrested today for assault...." Judging by the dates on those clips, I joined the paper only a few years -- five at most -- after that noxious practice ended. (Legend had it that it was dropped when a reporter racially identified everyone in a story as in: "Robert Jones, colored, was arrested today by NYPD officers Bill Smith, white, and Pedro Lopez, Puerto Rican/Mixed Race. He was accused of beating his wife, Mary Jones, colored, in a domestic dispute. A neighbor, Frank Smith, white, called the police to the scene...." I have no way of knowing if the legend is true.). Anyway, it appears that for the right-wing media, "transgender" is the new "colored."
We are drowning in a sea of lies and misinformation. Scuba divers die if they forget which way is up. For out society today, which way indeed is "up"?
Most people of any segment of society are not violent but this headline would have the readers think trans people are particularly violent which of course is not the case. When the full story comes out it is quite possible the manifesto will show some kind of resentment for the school because of the Christian tendency to make gay people in general feel feel guilty about their orientation. I'm sure that when these kids first realize they are "Different: they don't know why except they probably quickly become aware that certain people hate them for it. Kids quickly catch on to this difference and no doubt that is when the bullying starts. I understand there is a higher rate of depression, subsequent drug abuse and suicide than for the general population. There was a kid in my class at the age of 11 who was always being picked on as he spoke with a sort of lisp and looking back now quite effeminate in his mannerisms. Of course the other kids picked up on this very quickly and would tease him and pick on him. I was not a big kid but was always getting in g fights and I felt sorry for him and defended him, telling the other kids to lay off him. His name was Joe Orton although we knew him as John then, and he became a famous playwright. This was in Leicester, England. Sadly his partner murdered him at the height of his success. We all left school at age 14 back then. It was raised to 15 the following year. But that was the extent of my limited education, Here is John's (Joe's) Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Orton
They want a scapegoat for their brownshirted helots. Terrifying. My partner and I flashed back to JFK's assassination and how horrified we were when Jack Ruby turned out to be Jewish. Get an outgroup. Blame the outgroup. Kill members of the outgroup. It enables the brownshirts to feel safe. But they never are, and no blood sacrifice is ever enough.
I have a transgender child, and this headline is illustrative of the breathtaking transphobia which runs rampant in our nation. How dare they! If they are going to use gender identity to sell papers, they should identify the 99.9% of shooters as cisgenders.
You are absolutely right. This headline is a ploy to sow more division amongst us and prevent us from taking responsible action to end gun violence.
Identifying gender is such a disgusting trait that is becoming more frequent these days. A NY Times review of a Justin Peck ballet during the winter found it necessary to identify the male in a pas de deux as using gender neutral pronouns .When it comes to a shooting, what difference does gender make if a person uses a gun to kill another human ? Will we suddenly start identifying the gender of every gun owner?
Like the bullets in the chamber and magazine care about the gender identification of the person pulling the trigger…FFS…
How nice that this (Murdoch) paper is trying to cloud the gun issue by diverting attention to a (not really) Trans person.
Start the countdown for the tsunami of anti-trans, anti-non gender conforming legislation.
F*****s. And that's what I have to say about that.
I have only incoherent streams of profanity and vulgarity mixed with white-hot anger. This is beyond reprehensible.
Lucian, don't be too hard on old Rupert. After all, he's got an empire to hold on to and he needs to appeal to as many of his readers as possible (assuming his readers can actually read). Faux news & Faux nation are long beyond the point of no return. They've got their own imagined axe to grind and this is the way they do it. Just appeal to the those who are easily led by the nose and cannot think for themselves, and rake in the $$$. What a sick organization.
Unfortunately, this could justify a "Crusade" mentality for Christians to persecute the "heathen" homosexuals.
They have no shame or compassion, kind of like the Republicans in Congress and state houses that refuse to allow gun control laws to pass.
From MTG today at 3pm EST.
In the wake of a transgender shooter targeting a Christian school and murdering kids, every American should know the threat of Antifa driven trans-terrorism.
Twitter should not whitewash the incitement of politically motivated violence.