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Doing so means it’s missing a critical part of the story.
Let’s suppose, for a moment, that yesterday was the first time you heard that someone had opened fire on a church full of schoolchildren in Minneapolis last week. Like most of us, you’d probably turn to Google to get all the details. Predictably, you’d be met with a barrage of articles. You might even scroll down far enough to get to the Wikipedia page.
If you did that, you’d probably get the impression that the young man who perpetrated the shooting was just a mental case who chose to target a church full of innocent children for absolutely no reason — in fact, it’s quite possible you might not even know that the young man was a biological man.
The media powers that be have evidently determined that, given the furious discussion surrounding the heartless “thoughts and prayers” comment uttered by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, subjecting the whole story to the memory hole simply isn’t going to work — at least not yet. So, they’ve done the next best thing: They’ve decided to expunge any of the uncomfortable (and, in this case, important) details from the written record of the event. (READ MORE: Catholic School Shooting: A Message of Hope and Prayer)
Take, for instance, a “here’s-what-we-know” article that CBS News published on the subject, which shared the names of the victims, the number and medical status of the injured, and the history of the shooter’s association with Annunciation Church and School. Gone, however, was reference to the shooter’s transgender identity. He was identified as “Robin” — the name he chose after transition — and (confusingly) as “they/them” when necessary. All things considered, the article seemed to prefer merely calling him “the shooter.”
Continued below.
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Let’s suppose, for a moment, that yesterday was the first time you heard that someone had opened fire on a church full of schoolchildren in Minneapolis last week. Like most of us, you’d probably turn to Google to get all the details. Predictably, you’d be met with a barrage of articles. You might even scroll down far enough to get to the Wikipedia page.
If you did that, you’d probably get the impression that the young man who perpetrated the shooting was just a mental case who chose to target a church full of innocent children for absolutely no reason — in fact, it’s quite possible you might not even know that the young man was a biological man.
The media powers that be have evidently determined that, given the furious discussion surrounding the heartless “thoughts and prayers” comment uttered by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, subjecting the whole story to the memory hole simply isn’t going to work — at least not yet. So, they’ve done the next best thing: They’ve decided to expunge any of the uncomfortable (and, in this case, important) details from the written record of the event. (READ MORE: Catholic School Shooting: A Message of Hope and Prayer)
Take, for instance, a “here’s-what-we-know” article that CBS News published on the subject, which shared the names of the victims, the number and medical status of the injured, and the history of the shooter’s association with Annunciation Church and School. Gone, however, was reference to the shooter’s transgender identity. He was identified as “Robin” — the name he chose after transition — and (confusingly) as “they/them” when necessary. All things considered, the article seemed to prefer merely calling him “the shooter.”
Continued below.
Wikipedia Is Trying to Memory-Hole the Shooter’s Transgender Identity
Let’s suppose, for a moment, that yesterday was the first time you heard that someone had opened fire on a church full of schoolchildren in Minneapolis last week.
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