Which followed
Pink News posted that tweet (aka “post”) twice, eight hours ago and one hour ago. Always do your libeling twice, just to be thorough.
The caption under the photo at the top:
A bomb threat, which followed Riley Gaines spreading outrage over a California library’s handling of hate speech, saw the branch and nearby elementary school forced to evacuate.
Lots of things “follow” lots of other things. Correlation does not equal causation.
Subhead:
Anti-trans harassment pedalled on social media by former US college swimmer Riley Gaines has been linked with a bomb threat at a California library.
They mean “peddled” not “pedalled.” But more to the point, they’re lying about the “anti-trans harassment.” Disputing an ideology is not harassment.
On Monday (21 August), Mary L. Stephens library in Davis, a city about 14 miles from Sacramento, received an anonymous bomb threat in a phone call that included anti-LGBTQ+ speech. The building and a nearby elementary school were evacuated.
Of course we don’t know what “anti-LGBTQ+ speech” means here. The label serves the usual purpose of insinuating that lesbians and gays were subjected to hostility, when the issue is probably trans ideology. Pink News is routinely and resolutely dishonest this way in its “reporting.”
The threat came a day after the Yolo county chapter of Moms for Liberty hosted a meeting during which trans inclusion in sport was criticised.
That’s a lie. Inclusion of men in women’s sport is the issue, not “trans inclusion” in general.
During the event, library staff were forced to repeatedly warn speakers that misgendering athletes broke the library’s code of conduct.
Forced how? Cattle prods?
After continuing to misgender trans athletes, a staff member asked them to leave.
Whoops! Dangling participle. Silly staff member, continuing to misgender trans athletes and then asking them to leave.
Jumping ahead:
Gaines has actively campaigned against trans participation in women’s sports after she tied with trans swimmer Lia Thomas for fifth place in the women’s 200m freestyle final at the 2022 National Collegiate Athletics Association swimming and diving championships.
Same old same old lie. The issue is not “trans participation in women’s sports,” it’s men’s invasion of women’s sports.
Punch line:
PinkNews has contacted Mary L. Stephens library and Riley Gaines for comment.
Riley says Pink News has not said a word to her via any medium.
It’s this sort of brazen lying that discourages me from making much of an effort to read more of the TRA literature than I do.
And, I gotta say, I’m nowhere near the writing level of the people here. But even I know that you “peddle” stuff you’re trying to sell. You don’t “pedal” it.
(“Tow the line” at first makes as much sense as “Toe the line” if you didn’t bother to look it up. But “pedal” for “peddle”?)