The attacks claimed the lives of an Indiana woman and an Oregon man, both cisgender people.
i skimmed through the article, seemed like really poor journalism (worse than usual for huffpost).
the “relationship” - a stretch at best - is like claiming that shootings in Chicago and Baltimore are related because the perpetrators were both black - that happens all the time but no one ever tries to link the two, as they’re clearly two separate crimes that are basically unrelated. same thing here. just trash tier journalism
“In talks with investigators, Earl referred to the victim as “a male acting like a woman,” the affidavit said.”
and
“Rahnique U. Jackson, 24, is accused of killing Smith after the 32-year-old defended a transgender friend in the group, according to Smith’s sister.”
There’s your connection. Two people are dead due to hatred for trans people.
Are they unrelated in the sense that nothing else connects them victims and the perpetrators? Sure. But that’s just being pedantic.
No, it’s more like if two separate murders of Sikhs happened because people thought they were Muslim, and it showed rising Islamophobia. You know, that thing that actually happened in the US after 911, where Sikhs got murdered because ignorant people thought they were Muslim. This is two cis people murdered because the murders hated trans people.
Is this just your simpleminded way of changing the subject or do you actually have a cogent idea to share?
