POLICE: Transgender student stabbed to death at UW apartment, suspect on the run

Fear not I will never stop fighting either! But the immense frustration can be so overwhelming… I guess I needed the catharsis of trying to put the feeling of it into words. Keep fighting the good fight.

This is why we should have opposed the Patriot Act harder. It was all always going to be weaponized.

Well yes, because they aren’t playing by any set of consistent rules other than power at any cost. They know they’re hypocrites and they have fun being such, because they know that reasonable people value logical consistency.

Well of course. Conservatives are evil. Every single one of them.

The last time I heard something like that, it was called ["life unworthy of life"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unworthy_of_life) or something like that. Sure looks familiar, but it's kind of hard to translate, since the last time we saw something like that in power, it was in German.

You sound like a commie.. justice for all??? Get this liberal bullshit out of here 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." I'm not advocating for anything, but certain Jeffersons and Franklins definitely are.

Good citizens are right to get a gun, but only if they train to store and use it right.

I should've clarified I was meaning more like genetic/unchangeable demographics you don't really have a choice in membership of like race, gender, etc., especially since those traits don't necessarily say who you are as a person. Being a Nazi is a willing choice made by a person and it's centered around a given ideology, so generalizing them around that ideology is free game. It's very easy to not be a Nazi (in this day and age) lmao

I have nothing to back it up, but for years I have been feeling like they found an exploit in human cognition and have been using algorithms to intentionally f*** around with it. Like they figured out the Reverse Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.

Same thing with the abortion issue uniting various religious groups who'd usually want nothing to do with each other. Racism/Islamophobia do the same thing but with white people. Transphobia is really easy for them because the amount people know about trans people, or knowing any at all besides some prejudiced media role, is vanishingly small, so they can prey on the ignorance and just claim whatever without pushback. If Republicans had nobody to hate, they'd have nothing to run on.

It's true. One of my roommates is black. He moved into our co-op in a college town knowing that a third of the house is trans and altogether more than half of the house doesn't qualify as "straight". Yet a couple months after we voted him in he is now complaining and says we need more straight people. That "there's too many gay guys" (he considers trans women gay guys apparently). It's like, dude, you knew exactly what you were getting into moving into our house. But, in retrospect, I found out he was lying about his situation while we were interviewing him. He was living in his car and driving for Amazon, but neglected to pay his car insurance and got pulled over in his personal car. Got his license suspended and was fired from Amazon. So I think he was desperate for a place to live and at the time was willing to overlook how very LGBTQ+ we are. His girlfriend talked us into voting him into the house, and she straight played the race card and said as a progressive organization we were obligated to take a person of color. Well, turns out he was lying to her too, and two weeks after he moved in she dumped him because he was being emotionally abusive. She didn't even know he had been fired at that time either. Now we're stuck with him and he's probably one of the dumbest and most selfish people I've had the misfortune to live with. On top of being homophobic, he's a terrible person in general. The homophobia is just the icing on the cake. And no, he isn't the only person of color that lives here, nor is he the only black person.

Oh, absolutely. Privately they are high fiving about this. I'm just saying that they won't be sure about how to respond publicly because swing voters don't yet find it OK to just outright say "they deserved it for being trans ha ha"

Why would they want to amplify a story in which a trans person is the victim, rather than the perpetrator, of a crime? Trans people are often killed, often due to their being trans, and I have never once seen right wing media make a big deal out of these murders. Probably because it does not fit their narrative of trans people being scary sexual predators.

Usually when they are trying to use us as convenient propaganda to generate support for foreign wars. The Trump regime *loves* trans people so long as we're hypothetical and Palestinian (and are somehow immune to u.s.-made bombs)

I think it’s mainly because black Americans are a much smaller % of the population and tend to be more insular so they retain a higher percentage of religious people and also mainly interact with others who believe the same. It’s the same reason rural white people are more racist. They aren’t exposed to people who are different or conflicting view points/beliefs. I think it also comes from the idea that LGBT stuff is a “white” or “American” thing. You see that within immigrant communities a lot.

Trans (or gay) panic is still a legal defense in 29 states. A majority of states which have banned it only did so in the 2020s.

Corrected. Thank you.