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“Gender affirming care” was replaced with “sex change” or “sex reassignment” in at least 19 articles.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Jesus, this is just about as blatant as you can get. I honestly can’t imagine how people can eat up such clearly dehumanizing politics and not get a bad taste in their mouth…

Here’s how you can tell if you’re the baddy: Do you support policies to spite or “own” others? Do you think, “fuck ‘em, I don’t care,” “they’re disgusting,” or “they’ve gotta be taught a lesson?”

Then you’re probably the baddy, stop it! Dehumanization, even casually, is the root of all evil.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wrong, obviously — you might’ve stumbled into being right for the wrong reasons — but wow, is it a huge red flag!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish more people would understand the value of letting people make their own life choices, even if you disagree with them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this why it became so important for people in this camp to establish the whole grooming whatnot. To their listeners/readers, they are not dehumanizing, they are saving 😐

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When Pride Parades are chanting “we’re here, we’re q****, we’re coming for your children”, you can’t blame grooming accusers for believing that. 🤢

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought this country was about freedom and freedom to be who you want.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's freedom in the sense that you are free to own slaves set up your own church and stop paying taxes to the British empire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Freedom for me, but not for thee."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Do you think, “fuck ‘em, I don’t care,” “they’re disgusting,” or “they’ve gotta be taught a lesson?”

I often think this way about Fox News, and Health Insurance Companies, and Gab, and kiwifarms

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey beehaw, can you just use your magic admin toolbox to defederate fox news in real life? Getting tired of their propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yes please.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it even legal for news media to misquote someone, especially an elected official?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't speak to the legality, but it sure sounds like they violated the terms and agreement in place with AP repeatedly. I wonder what recourse AP has and if they could choose to disallow their content entirely on Fox? It seems like most news organizations get a majority of reporting from AP. I can only imagine the detrimental impact to Fox News if that came to pass.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's not like anyone goes to Fox for real news anyways. I doubt any of their userbase would complain.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Noreia

@superflippy

Changing the text of articles from AP should be breaking a law somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They'll just spin it as liberal woke media doing blahdeda.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It does sound like it could be defamation again, which they'd probably lose again to in court. They knowingly misquoted information.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're not a "news" organization. They're corporate media, entertainment. They even lost one of their certifications as a "trusted news source" for blatantly lying and regurgitating internet memes without checking their sources.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please share the source for your claim about certification? My searching left me nothing but a snopes article debunking similar claims.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's great and all, but their behavior and actions are that of a news agency regardless, so wouldn't they have to face the same scrutiny as a news agency?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They were even inconsistent in the changes in their own articles, ha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

...are we really that surprised at this point though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@superflippy we should sue Faux News for libel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They already got baked by that defamation suit that saw tucker leave, so it wouldn't be as hard to do it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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