Heritage Mouthpiece Hoping Musk Reverses Harassment Policies

Misgendering trans people is portrayed by the Daily Signal as the key to political unity and healing of divisions.

by Evan Urquhart

The Daily Signal, official mouthpiece of the right wing Heritage Foundation think tank, seems bullish on the coming takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, a reactionary billionaire and owner of a wildly overvalued car company. The piece by Gillian Richards read like PR for Musk, declining to do a more traditional journalistic approach and note Musk’s desperate attempt to avoid closing the deal, which resulted in a lawsuit by Twitter to force him to make good on their agreement.

From this puffery, the Signal moves on to one of their favorite topics, which of course is trans people.

The rest of the paragraph devolves into a re-hashing of the importance of Hunter Biden’s laptop to the election of Joe Biden, but it’s clear that the author means to suggest that Twitter’s policy on harassing trans people is connected to the previous thought, by Musk, that “There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.”

In other words, the Signal is suggesting that more harrassment of trans people on Twitter will lead to healing and unity. Look, we just report this stuff, we can’t always make it make sense for you.