[TRA apologist] Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept following dispute over Biden story - The Washington Post

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[–]slushpilot 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Evidence he's a "TRA apologist"?

His recent interview with Joe Rogan and his article about trying to produce a documentary on Martina Navratilova and trying to defend her suggests otherwise.

[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm not the one saying GG is a "TRA apologist," but his gut instinct seems to be to cheerlead for the stunning and brave and to slag off women. His support and admiration for Martina N seems to be coz she's gay like he is and he looked up to her when he was growing up. If she were not a gay rights icon, I doubt he'd have her back or even noticed her at all.

Women don't seem to matter to Greenwald. Unless, that is, they are women with penises.

Greenwald on Chelsea Manning in January 2018:

While her whistleblowing made her a hero around the world, Manning has also now become an icon of LGBT equality and transgender rights with an act of profound bravery that at least matches, if not surpasses, her whistleblowing. She announced her transition and demanded the dignity and treatment to which she was entitled, while she was imprisoned in the middle of a sprawling U.S. military base, in a brig at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/15/centrist-dems-launch-smear-campaign-against-young-trans-woman-all-to-keep-an-old-straight-white-man-i

Greenwald on JK Rowling on Twitter in June 2020:

Regardless of one's views on the trans/TERF debate, JK Rowling's victimhood complex is suffocating & narcissistic.

JK Rowling Defense Twitter is one of the most bizarre corners of this website I've encountered, which is saying a lot.

The next day, GG slagged off British feminists and the entire UK for twigging to and discussing the conflicts between the demands of TRAs and women's rights:

I'm genuinely interesting in understanding how and why the UK became the epicenter - Ground Zero - for anti-trans fanaticism. Other than the fact that a failed, collapsed, former Empire needs something to do, I'd fascinated by any good theories about why it's based there.

Here's an attempt to explain the British pathologies that caused the UK -- and specifically its centrist/liberal media -- to become Ground Zero for anti-trans fanaticism. Reading UK websites, you'd think trans people were their greatest societal plague:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1271070831859376130

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1271223902761607176?lang=en

[–]redditbegay 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Its hard to pick and choose with journalists, because 99% of them are just rotary note copiers for the establishment, I think that Glenn deserves some credit for being one of the only journalists these days who will go against the general narratives of most MSM and seek out other truths. It should be okay that some journalists can have different opinions than their readers at large, even if they're bad ones. They are flawed people like us, and I think the total of his reporting is worthwhile, moreso than much of the rest of MSM.

And we shouldnt let his personal shortcomings and opinions overshadow the fact that he's being kicked off (practically) HIS OWN publication because he dared to Question the Unquestionable Democratic Candidate for the presidency of the United States, who may be embroiled in a pay-for-influence operation that if it is true, is being covered up by almost the entire media; nearly as hard as they tried to bury Tara when she came out with her story of when Joe raped her in the capitol in the late 1990's.

If there really are foreign businessmen paying 10m for opportunities to meet Joe and other Democrats... thats a HUGE scandal even bigger than russiagate.

Although its hard to focus on these things because there is so much repulsive info about Joe and Kamala that its tiring to absorb it all.

[–]slushpilot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting, thanks for pulling that together.

I almost forgot about Bradley Manning and it kind of makes sense that they'd have each other's backs over that whole story.

I do wonder if his views have opened up a bit more recently after seeing the TRA backlash first-hand.

[–]buttbuttinator 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Every single time I learn something about Glenn Greenwald it makes me hate him more. What a loathsome creature he is.

[–]pinkpaperplates 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for posting this.