Fox Corp LGBTQ Staff Group Condemns Fox News' 'Hateful' Rhetoric

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🏳️‍🌈 “An employee networking & resource group for Fox Corp’s LGBTQ staffers and allies condemned the conservative cable giant’s “hateful” coverage of the new Florida law and issues surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity.”

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Fox Corp LGBTQ Staff Group Condemns Fox News’ ‘Hateful’ Rhetoric
Fox Corp’s staff-wide Pride Board denounced in an internal Slack message the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric of their colleagues at Fox News.
4:38 PM · Apr 13, 2022

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Fox News’ overtly anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and coverage of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill has generated outrage from elsewhere within the Murdoch media empire.

An employee networking and resource group for Fox Corporation’s LGBTQ staffers and allies earlier this month condemned the conservative cable giant’s “hateful” coverage of the new Florida law and issues surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity. The denunciation was in response to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) removing Fox Corp’s status as a preferred LGBTQ employer over its recent on-air rhetoric.

“Fox Pride denounces statements made regarding sexual orientation and gender identity on FOX News in the past week,” read the lengthy message posted on April 5 to the group’s company-wide Slack channel, which includes staffers from Fox News, Fox Weather, and other Fox brands. The note was verified and reviewed by The Daily Beast. “While the internal support and resources Fox Corp. offers to LGBTQ+ employees are amazing and supportive, the public facing messaging and rhetoric is the opposite. We find it disheartening and a step backward in the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community.”

The internal Slack message was first reported by media gossip site FTV Live.

The message, labeled as being “from the Fox Pride Board,” received dozens of positive emoji reactions from Fox-wide Slack users, including hearts and various pride flags. It is unclear when and how the note of condemnation was sent to Fox Corp brass.

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[Lovie777]

1. Shakes head . . ..

they seriously got LGBTO Republicans as well as Transgenders.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. LGBTQ Republicans...

Yeah. Like Caitlyn "I got mine, so fuck you!" Jenner. Caitlyn "All trans people besides me suck!" Jenner. Caitlyn "My money is more important than your rights!" Jenner.

That's a LGBTQ Republican. Trust me, I knew a few.... sadly.

[Nevilledog]

5. I want someone to ask Jenner what bathroom they make her use at Fox.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

6. I posted my guess a couple weeks ago...

She has her very own gold-plated bathroom, complete with replica gold medals hanging from it.

That is, of course, when she's not taking a dump on the trans community that she used and leeched from when she came out, then backstabbed and bullied post-surgery.

[TeamProg]

9. +1

[Jetheels]

7. Yes. I have several gay married friends that are trumpers. It's hard to wrap your head around it.

I guess they are log cabin republicans.
I don’t talk to them about politics.
They don’t even consider that they would not be married if republicans had their way.
I don’t understand it at all.

[Ray Bruns]

11. It's called "I got mine, Screw You!"

[Jetheels]

12. It probably is as simple as that.

[IronLionZion]

14. They probably like tax cuts and less regulations

or whatever they think the GOP is doing to make them richer.

[Srkdqltr]

2. So now Fox will make their on air people stop?

[IngridsLittleAngel]

4. Give it by Friday...

Fucker Carlson will be on Fux Noise, calling the LGBTQ staff group "traitors" and "backstabbers" and "commies" who are "canceling!" him.

This will not make anything better, sadly...

[MagickMuffin]

8. And don't forget the doxxing

He knows who they are!

[IngridsLittleAngel]

10. Considering that they're more than happy to dox the so-called "groomers"...

And get them threatened and terrorized? Absolutely. I expect Fucker Carlson or Laura Ingrate or some other Fux Noise terror-spreader to dox the Fox employees who condemned them.

These people are out of control.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. The parable of the old lady and the snake

Old lady is walking home from town and finds and injured snake on the side of the road, she brings the snake home with her and feeds it, gives it water, and treats its wounds. After several days the snake is feeling better and the lady goes to release it, but the snake turns around and bites her filling her with poison. The lady's last words are, "But why? I took care of you, I cared for you, why?" The snake replied, "You knew I was a snake."

[Marcuse]

15. Fox: Its just business, nothing personal.