Divorcing the Transgender Community (journalist who broke Chicago Dyke March story.)
“You’re a fucking kike!”
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“What did you say?” I finally whispered.
The invitation was accepted for the door to be pressed harder.
“Oh, you fuckin’ heard me. Your story was a lie and your bitch ass is finished as a reporter.”
“Why are you doing this?” I was beginning to shake. “It wasn’t a lie….and I know you…I….”
The voice was gone.
A half-hour later, the phone rang again. The Caller-ID said “Unknown”
I should have known better than to answer it and invite the second round of an evening barrage from supporters of the Chicago Dyke March which, four days earlier, had ejected three Jewish women from their event.
It was a small, local story, which no one expected to be repeated outside of Chicago, least of all the Dyke March Collective.
After the news of the discrimination against the Jewish participants in the march went global, the Collective scrambled to put together at least three wildly different excuses including a Jewish Pride flag making Palestinian attendees uncomfortable, the three women somehow disrupting a march of over a thousand people, and, ultimately, a massive conspiracy cooked up between the Jewish LGBT advocacy organization A Wider Bridge and the media.
When the condemnations kept coming, they turned on the easier target: the messenger.
That had been made clear during a more civilized on-the-record interview with one of the organizers who told me she felt that I and, consequently, my newspaper had “failed in its journalistic mission.”
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/257446/divorcing-the-transgender-community