‘And You Know What That Means’
Is it a dogwhistle? I don’t know what it means
John Daniel Davidson, who has written for the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, has a thousand-word anti-transgender article today in The Federalist. He’s the editor at that outlet, so he’s self-publishing. His sources are: someone’s blog, 16 links to Twitter, the New York Post (a right-leaning, transphobic outlet that sometimes gets the facts wrong), and another Federalist article (just to complete the circle).
Spoiler: He ends with the sentence “And you know what that means.” But, truly, I don’t.
I’m not linking to this article. It’s short and terrible. Below, I tell you everything you need to know about it.
Part 1 of 2: He Wants You to Fear Punks
First of all, he wants you to know there are “pink-haired youths and black-clad Antifa thugs screaming at old ladies in the streets.”
In the first half of the article, he yarn-spins about an 80-year-old woman who spotted another person in the YMCA pool locker room and believed this person to be “a man.” The 80-year-old complained to staff. It’s…
