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How Fox News Turns Transgender People Into Villains

Started by stephaniec, September 22, 2015, 04:25:10 PM

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stephaniec

How Fox News Turns Transgender People Into Villains

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/22/how-fox-news-turns-transgender-people-into-vill/205689

Media Matters/RACHEL PERCELAY 09/22/2015

"America's transgender community experiences some of the highest rates of discrimination, violence, and poverty in the country. So how has Fox News managed to portray this marginalized and vulnerable community as threatening, greedy, and deserving of mistreatment?

Despite the progress that's been made in the fight for transgender equality and visibility, transgender people continue to face astronomical rates of harassment and discrimination at work, in school, in public places, and even from law enforcement. Trans people are often refused medical care, fired from their jobs, denied housing, and even evicted from their homes because of their gender identity."
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suzifrommd

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Lady Smith

The opinion outside the US here in the countries of the former British Commonwealth is that Fox News is a joke that nobody in their right mind could ever take seriously for one moment.
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stephaniec

Quote from: Lady Smith on September 22, 2015, 06:04:22 PM
The opinion outside the US here in the countries of the former British Commonwealth is that Fox News is a joke that nobody in their right mind could ever take seriously for one moment.
the opinion of people within the borders of the continental United States should seriously question their purpose in life if they believe FOX News is a credible source of information.
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Deborah

Faux News to those with a functioning brain.  They just pander to their audience,  the religious right reveling in in their persecution fantasies.


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Valwen

The saddest part is fox news has a devoted following, mostly of ultra concervitive, wealthy, white men. AKA the people who wield staggeringly unbalanced power in the country. People who like to belive that all minorities are criminals, all LGB folk are corrupt deviants trying to destroy there way of life, all Transgender indviduals are monsters and mentally unstable (Plus criminals, dangerous drug users, and all the LGB stuff too), and that poor people are all lazy, greedy whiners who need to pull themselves up by there bootstraps and work hard to get ahead. Ohh they also think drug addicts and people with mental or emotional problems are criminals who should be locked up in general prison population until they get better. Because we all know nothing will help a depressed, poverty striken transgender lesbian with sever anxiety issues who smokes pot to help relax and avoid there problems for a bit quite like locking there feminized body up in a prison full of men for a few years.

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warlockmaker

I thought Fox news was a malicious TV soap. In Asian we can't believe that Americans seriously consider this as news. BUT, I know my 2nd wife's family, who father is a Marine Corp Col, are avid Fox news fans.....mmmm. I hope not all US military thing that way
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Arch

Well, not much new here, but it's a nice analysis of F*x News's specific tactics.

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Amy1988

In all honesty I'm conservative but I can't support any political party or institution who's core philosophy is openly bigotted and hostile toward me. 
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Lady Smith

Quote from: warlockmaker on September 22, 2015, 11:20:05 PM
I thought Fox news was a malicious TV soap. In Asian we can't believe that Americans seriously consider this as news. BUT, I know my 2nd wife's family, who father is a Marine Corp Col, are avid Fox news fans.....mmmm. I hope not all US military thing that way

It certainly sounds like one  :laugh:
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Sandy74

I have never taken FOX News seriously, I think they are a joke to be honest. I always thought that news was supposed t be unbiased but they are not but the same can be said about the other news networks but they are so biased that its sick and they keep going back and forth between each other. I just don't care how they view anyone and if you want to lose millions of brain cells at one time just watch anything on Faux News!
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Deborah

Faux news isn't about news anyway.  It's an opinion oriented entertainment show targeted at their audience.  I know this for a fact because I was once personally involved in an incident that was on the news for weeks afterwards.  What they were saying and what I knew first hand to be factual were miles apart. 

That was the beginning of the end for my TV news watching days.


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Evolving Beauty

Horrendous! He did this here, he'd be fired and sued.
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Traci New

Fox news is a joke. Only brainwashed people with their heads in the sand watch it.  I think that it should be taken off the air.  We need truth not political lies.
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Trans_Lilly

Quote from: Lady Smith on September 22, 2015, 06:04:22 PM
The opinion outside the US here in the countries of the former British Commonwealth is that Fox News is a joke that nobody in their right mind could ever take seriously for one moment.

Same thing in Canada, Fox News is seen as inaccurate, non researched idiots


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Dee Marshall

A lot of people feel that way here. The problem is that it's socially acceptable here to hold those kinds of opinions so people can watch it and believe it. In pockets there are so many people like that that they self-reinforce.
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HappyMoni

I don't remember there being this incredible demonetization of the other side before Fox showed up. Maybe there was, but I hear a visceral hatred of those who are different from those who watch Fox now. There is also an incredible victim hood portrayed on Fox. It is sold as the actual victims of something are really repressing you, our audience. I watch it sometimes until I just can't any more. It is so dishonest. Even the name is deceptive. If it were "Fox Political Opinions" then that would be honest. My opinion is that it is just an extension of the campaign that the cigarette companies used to deceive us into thinking smoking didn't cause cancer. They lied because it was making them money. I think the way they treat trans issues doesn't bring them monetary gain directly, but it stokes the hatred and solidifies the victim hood. When I grew up, the communists were the enemy. Now they have moved on to our own people being the enemy. It is a poisonous attitude for our country.
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warlockmaker

Sadly, it seems that all news stations have polarized their views. I used to be a fan of CNN but today I see a station that feels it's judge and jury on the morality of USA and like FOX bitterly and hatefully pursue those that are not aligned with their views. Is there an unbiased news channel to watch today?
When we first start our journey the perception and moral values all dramatically change in wonderment. As we evolve further it all becomes normal again but the journey has changed us forever.

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Colleen M

In all frankness, the actual "hard" news reporting on Fox really isn't that bad.  Where things go completely off the rails is in all the sensationalized, basically editorial programs they use to fill up most of the 24 hour news cycle. 
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ChasingAlice

To get actual news i visit both domestic and foreign news sites. it is amazing to see the difference. Anyway, i believe the information that matches.