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Is this the most 'woke' headline ever? "How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers"

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RandySavage · 03/04/2024 10:14

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian-transgender-climate-change-bandung-b2522422.html

I don't think I've seen even Titania McGrath manage to get so much oppression into so few words.
Can anyone do better?

How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers

Nearly 93% of respondents saw decreased income during the rainy season

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian-transgender-climate-change-bandung-b2522422.html

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Ingenieur · 03/04/2024 10:42

Trans women like Patiha are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change... because many trans women, like Patiha, are shut out of the formal economy.

Patiha launched a cake-making business that same year, employing three trans friends.

The premise of the article is fundamentally untrue.

CaterhamReconstituted · 03/04/2024 10:35

Surely an April Fool’s. Or maybe not. I also remember the “Covid is racist” storylines. And photography too apparently- something about the light settings being worse for black people. I just chuckle and ignore these ridiculous stories now.

theilltemperedclavecinist · 03/04/2024 10:34

I thought it was an interesting story. Sex workers more likely to be affected by climate change, because work outdoors, and less likely to get help, because sex workers. The case study had a happy ending, because sex worker became cake maker instead.

I don't see the relevance of them being trans, and the use of the word 'vulnerable' adds nothing. The story speaks for itself, unless you're talking about a particular subset of trans who are especially vulnerable, in which case you should explain why.

lechiffre55 · 03/04/2024 10:29

@ConJob
It takes a global problem that affects everyone, and then looks for a minority group to paint as especially effected more than everyone else. These articles often have the format "How [phenomenom] affects [minority]x[minority]x[minority] the most." Sometimes the phenomenom itself gets called an xxxxIST. e.g. I think Covid was called racist against black people.
In this case the minority attibutes are vulnerable, Indonesian, trans, sex workers.
The purpose seems to be to farm oppression points as a form of maintaining the progressive stack of oppressions.

ConJob · 03/04/2024 10:17

How is the headline woke?