• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1882·
    21 days ago

    Meanwhile, Texas cops say no evidence of a hate crime.

    As if the whole country isn’t tacitly approving of this by embracing hate and apathy.

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        371·
        20 days ago

        There on fucking statement makes it clear it was a hate crime [ Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation," SAPD said on X.] If he had his house burn down and murder because he was gay THAT IS A FUCKING HATE CRIME!!! Fuck that police department ACAB.

    • ayyyEnglish
      272·
      20 days ago

      The only good Republican is a dead Republican.

  • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    761·
    20 days ago

    Ohhhh…this provides much needed context & clarity that I didn’t have before. When I hear there’s been a ‘shooting’ in America, while this is technically correct, I don’t think it’s one person shooting another. I hear ‘shooting’, and I think one or more shooters/multiple targets/largely indiscriminate just one group vs another.

    By all accounts, this is very discriminatory & targeted. Obviously. I would word it as “Jonathan Joss murdered”, then explain he was gunned down by a deranged homophobe.

    Until just now, I genuinely assumed Mr. Joss got caught up in a mall or gang shooting. This is especially tragic & inexcusable, such targeted hatred.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      Tbh, most “shootings” in America aren’t active shooter events in the way you expect. Most are targeted and related to other crime (be it robbery, revenge, domestic assault, etc), some fit the definition of mass shooting (4 or more shot incl shooter) but it’s gang/crime/drug related and often in those cases a bystander or two, more fall in that category than random mass shooter events by an order of magnitude.

      The mass/school shootings you imagine are actually incredibly rare statistically, something like 0.00094% last time I checked. In fact even most “school shootings” are the same, with one or no people injured, and targeted. Or even accidental discharge with no injury by the school cop or a suicide in a recently shut down forever school at 3am in a car in the parking lot (real events counted in everytown’s school shootings numbers a few years ago).

      Hate crimes are for sure more common, actually.

  • yuri@pawb.socialEnglish
    102·
    20 days ago

    i actively avoid texas whenever i have to drive cross country. i’ve gone as much as 4 hours out of my way. every time they threaten to secede i hope TO GOD they go through with it.

  • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    20 days ago

    Have the assailants been arrested or revenged? Some good guy with a gun gonna kill these criminals?

  • canEnglish
    5·
    20 days ago

    If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

    I don’t even want to know what this part is in response to.

    • vader8er@pawb.socialEnglish
      361·
      20 days ago

      This is such an insulting and frankly stupid take. Homophobia is not the work of self-hating gays, it’s just bigots being bigots. I’m sure that some closeted self-loathing gay folks do this kind of shit, but if you’re seriously suggesting that the only people who are willing to throw out homophobic slurs and violence towards gay people are other gay people then I don’t know what to say. Conservatives are hateful bigots to virtually every minority group on the planet, but only with homophobia are they accused of being the thing they’re being hateful towards. Why? I’ve never seen a racist accused of secretly being black, or a anti-semite being secretly Jewish, but apparently every homophobe is just a poor confused homosexual trying to throw of the scent.

      Speaking as a gay dude, please stop this victim-blaming bullshit.