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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WAPO ran a front page story yesterday on the deaths of homeless people in the District that figured a transgender named Alice as its poster child.  The WAPO reporter knew she made her home on 17th Street north of Q (it was in the story) but apparently made no effort at all to see how her life and death affected those who live there.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but Alice was considered a major blight on 17th St.  A meth addict who routinely aggressively verbally assaulted residents and storeowners, shoplifted, and engaged in public sex acts. A number of residents have emailed WAPO their disdain for their attempt to make Alice a homeless hero.  And these are people who routinely take food and blankets to the homeless on their street and have been known to visit those who are in jail.

Could we start with a press that isn't so caught up in identity politics that it leaps to a hagiography on possibly the only transgender homeless death this year to highlight a significant social problem?[/quote]

Just came to say, that is the second time in the past 15 minutes I have seen the word hagiography used--the first time ever for me in a print book and now here--Bader-Meinhoff in the extreme! [/quote]

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