Cleveland Plain Dealer Dehumanizes Murdered Transgender Woman

By: Tuesday April 30, 2013 2:55 pm

Most newspapers leave the dehumanization of transgender people to the trolls in the online comments. But not Cleveland’s Plain Dealer. They bring the sewage right to the surface. Their article about the discovery of the body of a brutally murdered 20 year old African-American woman, C. Acoff, begins with the title “Oddly dressed body found in Olmsted Township pond identified”, and goes downhill from there. Here’s an excerpt:

Shirley Sherrod Suing Andrew Breitbart

By: Thursday July 29, 2010 12:15 pm

It’s unclear what the charges of the lawsuit will be that Shirley Sherrod will bring against Andrew Breitbart — perhaps defamation or libel — but the discovery phase, at least, should be interesting.

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