National Public Radio can be as maddeningly “fake news” as almost any big media outlet (which is ironic because they now have a “disinformation team”), but that doesn’t mean NPR can’t at least be entertaining in the process.
Tucker Carlson analyzed one such segment from NPR about “genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts online” and how others have wrongly appropriated that particular culture, or something:
NPR: don’t you dare use the 🦖 emoji pic.twitter.com/9U9gANP7Ql
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 16, 2022
Well, that was certainly… interesting.
Using the 🦖 🦕 emojis if you’re not trans is literally violence
— Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) July 16, 2022
Using dinosaur emojis is transphobic. https://t.co/JEY8wfVO7P pic.twitter.com/XVD7AlnjeB
— Innocent Bystander (@supertolerant) July 16, 2022
How is this real…? 🤦🏼♀️ https://t.co/5EuItEjQBu
— imlaw16 (@imlaw16) July 16, 2022
The streams of satire and reality crossed quite a while ago.
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