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  1. …in reply to @CathyYoung63
    @CathyYoung63 @BAlbertBen As someone who’s seen so much Trumpian disinformation, I’d point you to a few salient items: The kid who identifies as a helicopter is a meme from 2014 4chan-amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sexually-identify-as-an-attack-helicopter The doctor whose research the Times principally quotes has torn their misuse of it apart
    1. …in reply to @augustf
      @CathyYoung63 @BAlbertBen And look, I don’t think the Times has some obligation to be nice or decent to anyone. I mean, look at the Post. But it’s Fox-level gaslighting for their editor to turn around, link to a stream of rather ugly bigoted QAnon-adjacent coverage and call it “positive.”
      1. …in reply to @augustf
        @CathyYoung63 @BAlbertBen At the very least people should be pushing the Times hard on the heavy implication in nearly all their pieces that suspicious (usually LGBT) adults are “grooming” (they carefully avoid that word, but it’s what they mean) children into a trans lifestyle. It’s a cheap 70s slur.