Post link: Is New York Times transphobic? @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world elaborating on why i was asking for confirmation in the post
how come most of their trans related opinion articles rarely invite a trans to get more of a trans perspective? for context, Media Matters and FAIR both have found that the vast majority of articles they published contained misinformation or outright harmful rhetoric against the trans community and over 130 articles on trans issues, and only quoted trans people in 14 of them also when the infamous US v. Skrmetti Supreme Court decision happened, which ruled that Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming care is legal, cited the Times 29 times in justifying their decision
how is this post promoting an agenda?
i could see what you mean if OP asked “Is New York Times transphobic” and leave at that, but OP seems to have elaborated on why the question and seemed pretty specific and not “baiting” unless now the whole topic becomes bait just for being mentioned? then maybe you are using the wrong word but bait doesnt seem like it
a question that could be misunderstood as bait with elaboration under it doesnt mean its an observation phrased as question but you seem to contradict with what you said previously (maybe you didnt notice or overthinking it?)
i dont think news communities usually allow posts like this, do they? people only share articles and the posts usually not doing it comes from a mod
OP doesnt seem to be throwing the fit over their post being removed or trying to make it seem bigger than it is and actually being very specific and elaborating, your phrasing for someone judging others way to paraphrase their thoughts sure looks to attempt to minimize
i find it suspiciously weird how OP posted this quickly but that doesn’t invalidate everything else (nor change whether YDI or PTB), it looks PTB to me (curious if OP got a private message from mods since this rule mentions they might get which could help understanding the decision, its not specified on the post)
No stupid questions is for asking questions that the poster thinks might be stupid to ask. Like if eating cheese in the bath is normal.
Elaboration shows they have really thought about it and it is a topic for a serious discussion, not finding out that the question they thought might be stupid is just something people don’t talk about much.
They posted it in a community called ye power tripping bastard to ask if their bait post being deleted made the mod a power tripping bastard. They also assume it is the promoting an agenda part and not the bait part. The bait part just fits better in my opinion.
They are making it bigger than it is.