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Here's some perspective. A man was shot and killed by the police in a town not far from me. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-shot-by-newton-police-iden

Here's some perspective. A man was shot and killed by the police in a town not far from me. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-shot-by-newton-police-identified-911-call-released/ar-BB1czesJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-shot-by-newton-poli... So of course the circus shows up https://patch.com/massachusetts/newton/newton-residents-protest-police-shooting-others-counterprotest https://patch.com/massachusetts/newton/newton-residents-prot... There were certainly failures that led to this man's death, but all of the failures happened before he picked up the knife and went downstairs to the candy shop. I don't see how protesting the police helps. Also the MSM seems intent on telling me the only acceptable thought is that Bruce Jenner is a proud, strong, beautiful woman. I don't think I want them as the arbiters of reality.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> Also the MSM seems intent on telling me the only acceptable thought is that Bruce Jenner is a proud, strong, beautiful woman This is weird, because while I’ve seen this specific complaint with alight variation in wording enough to think it must be a potent right-wing meme (in the Dawkins replicating unit to of behavior) sense endemic among a certain segment of the right, I've never actually encountered anything in the MSM approximating what it describes, and, despite that segment of thr right’s frequent use of it to paint the media as allies with the Left, also don't find that it describes the Left, either, which while it tends to accept that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, isn't particularly inclined to agree with any of the other descriptors. (And is, in fact, attacked by a different segment of the Right for that, since Jenner is politically conservative Republican Christian trans woman.)
- AvocadoPanic 6y ago
  Not so literally. The complaint is that 'Trans' is even a thing, that it seems the push isn't even to just tolerate the crazy but to celebrate it and it's being peddled to kids.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> Also the MSM seems intent on telling me the only acceptable thought is that Bruce Jenner is a proud, strong, beautiful woman This is weird, because while I’ve seen this specific complaint with alight variation in wording enough to think it must be a potent right-wing meme (in the Dawkins replicating unit to of behavior) sense endemic among a certain segment of the right, I've never actually encountered anything in the MSM approximating what it describes, and, despite that segment of thr right’s frequent use of it to paint the media as allies with the Left, also don't find that it describes the Left, either, which while it tends to accept that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, isn't particularly inclined to agree with any of the other descriptors. (And is, in fact, attacked by a different segment of the Right for that, since Jenner is politically conservative Republican Christian trans woman.)

AvocadoPanic 6y ago
Not so literally. The complaint is that 'Trans' is even a thing, that it seems the push isn't even to just tolerate the crazy but to celebrate it and it's being peddled to kids.