when the old media gets it

When even old media like Newsweek gets it, it's pretty fuckin' obvious. What made it clear? The overt mockery and vicious, forthright contempt? The attempts to legislate transgendered people, including kids, into being sex offenders? Supporters of bathroom bans marching through Target screaming that queers will go to hell? North Carolina school districts authorising students to use pepper spray on other students if they're transgendered and using a washroom? The physical assaults on transwomen? There are so many options.

The Hatred of Transgender People That Dare Not Speak Its Name
By Michael C. Dorf On 6/2/16 at 6:20 AM
Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/hatred-transgender-people-dare-not-speak-name-465509

For many people, the actual basis for supporting restrictive restroom policies is a view—often but not always rooted in religion—that being transgender is immoral or even disgusting.

Pacific Lutheran University's distatesful letter

The tone and inferences in Pacific Lutheran University's "did you REALLY mean to save KPLU?" letter really rankle. It's like they're angry that listeners organised to save KPLU as an independent station at no cost to PLU.



Were we CONFUSED? Really? C'mon. 'Are you SURE you want this group to have YOUR INFO?! REALLY? Were you IN ERROR?' Spreading FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - much, PLU?

I am highly unimpressed. It feels like a last-second hit on Friends of KPLU/Save KPLU, like they're looking for a reason not to sell to the community and instead sell to KUOW, which will shut down KPLU's news department and who mostly want it for the transmitters, to serve as repeaters for their corporate NPR feed station.

And I don't even know why PLU would do this, unless it's personal. Whose ego got bruised at Pacific Lutheran University?

In case their FUD manages to confuse people, here's SaveKPLU's website. There's still plenty of time to donate and help buttress this community buyout.