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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Funny that it's the guardian reporting on this considering how transphobic they are.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is the US version. 🤷‍♀️

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Ah, right, yeah, historically interestingly they have been less transphobic. They even called the UK version out once.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who knows, maybe in their mind it makes Pedro look bad?

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this was our thinking based on the headline alone.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they're trying to smear Pedro. They refer to his tweet as an attack and bring up his trans sister twice, implying that he only cares because his family is affected. The language they use to talk about JKR is, by contrast, much more sympathetic.

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, makes sense. Yeah, we got that feeling from the title alone as it seemed very matter a fact, not really standing up for him. Fuck the guardian.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

"haha look at this dolt standing up for his family, what a fucking loser! imagine having empathy lmfaooooooo"

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

all mainstream newspapers and tv news etc in the UK is transphobic. They may be subtle or more open about it depending on their apparent political leanings, but the UK's guardian has said some pretty transphobic things in the past and we don't have much hope they'll stop doing so, especially now.