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A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. (lemmy.world)

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Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype

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[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

If a WASP with a trump shrine and 20 guns has mental health issues and kills 4 people it’s mental health issues.

If anyone not fitting the conservative mold, even if they have mental health issues, kills people it’s about their differences from the mold that come first. “Mental health” might get a one line mention at the bottom of the article.

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[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My comment was regarding how the press, the Post in particular, handle crimes if they can get more views by making it about lgbtq. I had no intent to offer an unqualified diagnosis of the person in the OP article.

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's my point, gender has no relation to violent crimes, bringing it up in the headline is just bigoted

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[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

This might be an important detail to put in the post, but in the headline? It makes no sense past bigotry

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[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree, OP makes it out like it wasn't an extreme act of violence, even though it did start as self defence.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago

it did start as self defence.

Was the mailman armed? If not i can't really frame stabbing someone with a knife as self-defense.

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[+] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

The real story is “Mentally Ill Person with a History of Knife Crime Stabs Mail Carrier in Fight”

To the people who consider them being trans headline-worthy, "trans person" and "mentally-ill person" are synonyms.

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