I don’t rlly even fuck with Finn like that but imo calling him tme is super reductive and online…do you rlly think Finn would be safe in all women’s restrooms…he cant just tell an angry irl transphobe “no dude you see I’m actually a femboy who uses he/him pronouns” to get out of being fagbashed!! That’s not how real life transmisogyny operates!!! If he has privilege on twitch, sure, fine! But so do plenty of hot skinny white trans women and no one with any sense would ever call them tme! Its not a fucking costume that Finn csn take off he has made this his LIFE. Idk dude it just doesn’t make any sense to me and if someone wants to try and explain it I guess you’re welcome to attempt. LIKE I SAID IM NOT A FINN FAN, I DONT LIKE THAT HE DOES/DID TRAP CONTENT, I JUST THINK THE WAY PPL TALK ABOUT HIM IS DUMB
The latest questions are centered around Anat Schwartz, an Israeli who co-authored several of the paper’s most widely circulated reports, including the now well-known and scrutinized December 28 article headlined: “‘Screams Without Words’’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.”
Independent researchers scrutinized the online record, and raised serious questions about Schwartz. First, she has apparently never been a reporter but is actually a filmmaker, who the Times suddenly hired in October. You would expect the paper to look for someone with actual journalistic experience, especially for a story as sensitive as this one, written during the fog of war. Surely the paper had enough of its own correspondents on staff who could have been assigned to it.
Next, the researchers found that Schwartz had not hidden her strong feelings online. There are screenshots of her “liking” certain posts that repeated the “40 beheaded baby” hoax, and that endorsed another hysterical post that urged the Israeli army to “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse,” and called Palestinians “human animals.”
(Just this morning, more evidence emerged online; Schwartz apparently also served in Israeli Military Intelligence.)
Finally, one of her co-authors on two of the reports was Adam Sella, who is her nephew.
Let’s pause here. What would happen if the Times suddenly hired a Palestinian filmmaker with no journalistic background, who had recently publicly “liked” posts that called for “pushing Israeli Jews into the sea,” to co-write several of its most sensitive and contested reports?
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There’s another related example of how the Times has botched the sexual violence story. One of the first Israeli organizations that arrived on the scene of the Hamas attack was Zaka, a volunteer group that recovers dead bodies. On January 15, Times reporter Sheena Frankel wrote a positive profile of the group; she included 3 or 4 sentences of criticism, only to quickly dismiss them. This site had already raised serious doubts about Zaka weeks earlier, pointing out that “the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israel government.” Then, on January 31, the Israeli daily Haaretz published a long investigation, that highlighted “cases of negligence, misinformation and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props.” Haaretz cited one Zaka report that said a volunteer had seen a murdered pregnant woman, with the baby still attached by the umbilical cord — before concluding that the incident “simply didn’t happen.”
At this stage, there are serious doubts about many aspects of Israel’s overall account about October 7. Only a genuinely independent and impartial investigation might some day get closer to the truth. But meanwhile, at the very least the New York Times must publicly recognize its errors, and assign new, unbiased reporters to try to clean up its mess.
nytimes is allegedly investigating her, too bad they didnt have the foresight to look into her before they let her co author multiple major articles about october 7, especially since she is not a reporter 🤔
another car opinion is that they shouldn’t have touch screens
if you need to do something with your car (ex: adjust the AC) you should be able to do it based off of touch and minimal sight; without knobs and buttons for tactile orientation youre … staring at an ipad while driving? awesome trend we’ve started
No one should have to get divorced to pay medical bills. The American healthcare system was not made to help sick American’s. It was made so big pharma CEOs could get rich. America needs universal healthcare.
i genuinely don’t think it matters if avery was breaking ToS or not. a website where ToS is only applied to posts that get staff’s attention and where terfs consistently organize to get trans women’s posts brought to staff’s attention is de facto a website where the rules only apply to trans women. the purpose of a system is what it does and all that innit
“have a bunch of rules that everyone constantly breaks without punishment but single out vulnerable demographics / people you dislike and punish them and then say, It’s Not Personal, They Broke The Rules,” is like one of the oldest tricks in the book when it comes to using nominally fair systems of power unfairly!
a useful point of comparison in the irl US is jaywalking/loitering as crimes of poverty/race
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