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This morning this headline was prominently displayed at the top of the page of CNN (on the mobile version, the Internet version was much more tame to their credit). The version I snapshotted above is newer, the original version had \u201cMormon\u201d prominently displayed in both the title and the subheading. (It originally said something like “Small town Mormon doctor is accused of abuse…More than 100 former patients say Mormon doctor abused them.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, if the doctor was a stake president and systematically used his position to abuse most of his victims, then such a headline would have been completely appropriate. However, it is clear when reading the article that he was a sexual abuser that happened to be Mormon. Yes, some of the abuse leveraged Church connections, but I somehow doubt that if there was a Jewish doctor, among whom some of his 100+ victims were some that he knew from his synagogue, that they would prominently display the word \u201cJewish\u201d two times in the heading and subheading. Of course it would have been appropriate to discuss the synagogue connection to his victims in the body of the article, but prominently displaying it as the main identifier twice is clearly the editor either trying to get clicks by piling onto a not-cool religious groups, or outright malice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To be clear, I don’t have much to complain about with the body of the article. Out of 128 victims it’s clear that the ones that were going to go on the record did have clear Church connections, so it makes sense to platform the stories of those brave women who spoke out.<\/p>\n Also, none of this is to\u00a0say that we’re more repressed in toto than other groups, or that we have a more painful history, but in terms of who media elites feel okay punching, it’s pretty clear there’s this weird exemption carved out for us and maybe a few other groups. There is a section of the Latter-day Saint community that thinks that any pushback to things like this is us being hypersensitive (and there are those for whom we deserve almost every attack we get from non-Evangelical Christians), but ironically these are some of the same people that would be furious about this happening to other minority groups. And yes, I know they have these complex, 50-point, multi-tiered schemas of intersectional oppression that delineates who is allowed to criticize, be made fun of, or to make fun of others. <\/span>Call me old fashioned, but if you’re not going to do it with one group, you probably shouldn’t be doing it to another. This was an awful, atrocious event, and it deserves more professional treatment than being used as a click-bait cudgel against an unpopular religious minority group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning this headline was prominently displayed at the top of the page of CNN (on the mobile version, the Internet version was much more tame to their credit). The version I snapshotted above is newer, the original version had \u201cMormon\u201d prominently displayed in both the title and the subheading. 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