An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
They say they didn’t even punch back. Still, a plea deal may help them avoid jailtime. But Sanders and Rush aren’t signing.
USA is a cesspool of psychopathy. The country disgust me more every day.
It’s our Nazi era where we allow hate to consume us. I’m trying to get out, personally.
If it makes it any better Louisiana has always been a shithole even by American standards. My grandmother’s great grandmother left Louisiana way back in the day because it was too much of a dumpster fire even then. For reference my grandmother was born in 1956.
Didn’t see it mentioned, (and apologies if this isn’t allowed) there’s a GoFundMe link spreading around for assisting towards medical and legal fees.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans-couple-recover-from-hate-crime
Thanks for sharing this
It’s infuriating that the mob just went on with their day.
I do wonder what the right wing fanatics are going to say about gun control when someone shoots a would be lynch mob dead.
Guarantee in this case it would be some BS about trans people being unhinged or the most likely mass shooters.
Yep, nothing would make the Heritage foundation happier than a trans person defending themselves from mob violence with a firearm. Gives them an excuse to start provoking pogroms
Bitch what do you think they’re doing? You think they can’t just make some shit up when its time? Please cut this victim blaming the fuck out.
Good behavior will not save you. Making them afraid might.
Are you replying to the right comment? You are agreeing with what they just said here.
Read more carefully.
cmbabul basically said, “trans people shouldn’t defend themselves, as that would just embolden bigots.” Primecf pointed out that bigots will just make shit up, as Republicans do when they pretend every mass shooter is trans.
cmbabul is demonstrating behavior found among some allies, where they nominally support trans rights, but get really uncomfortable with the idea of a minority group defending itself with lethal violence. Minorities are meant to be protected in a parental way by the majority. Minorities are not meant to have agency of their own, certainly not in the realm of self-defense.
Maybe that’s the subtext, but I don’t see how these two things can’t be true at once :
- The Heritage Foundation will spin any resistance as an attack.
- Let’s make them afraid.
To me, both comments are compatible and don’t have a necessary contradiction.
That’s not at all what I said, they absolutely must arm and defend themselves, but it’s delusion to think the right will not use it as a cudgel to enact even more violence.
Predicting the behavior of the enemy isn’t telling anyone they should or shouldn’t do anything.
A+ reading comprehension
Where did I ever say they shouldn’t defend themselves? Understanding what will happen next doesn’t equate with advocating they stand down and let themselves die.
Literally everyone that ain’t a fascist should arm themselves and use those arms when their safety is in peril. Especially marginalized people. And if a fucking lynch mob is after anyone they should mow them down.
But that’s not gonna happen in a vacuum and there will at least be an attempt to utilize that as a catalyst for even more violence upon trans people. Please tell me what you think the reaction by the right will be when something like that inevitably occurs?
When the police is part of the mob, that’s how it is.
There’s so much it’s hard to keep track but wasn’t there already a recent story about a trans person who was iirc knocked down, pulled their gun, and was then charged with brandishing or something similar?
I remember hearing about this too, so I had to look it up, and yup. Happened in Wyoming:
They want it classified as a mental health issue and deny gun rights to them.
Something something antifa radical left
Oh yeah all America needs is a mass shooting and they’ll enshrine gun control… Like if a school ever got shot up, it would be national gun control the next day. \s
And that’s why I started carrying a gun.
I’m not trans, but I’m also not going to watch a crowd fucking beat a lady to death for peeing when I could do something about it. What are they gonna do, lock me up for defending a life? Try.
Yes they absolutely will. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be the right thing to do and worthwhile, but they are hoping for that as an excuse to more radically escalate state violence.
If the government can take away anyone’s rights, they can take away everyone’s rights.
This is the line in the sand and people on our side don’t get to decide if things will get violent. The fascists are going to get violent. The question is, are you getting on that first Trump Train to a concentration camp?
You’re goddamn right. It’s not “how would it happen” it’s “when is it going to happen”
Also have a gun and kill you.
So now we have the original problem (in which no one was killed) and two or more people pointing guns at each other as well. Does that decrease or increase the chances of someone getting killed?
Spoken like someone with privilege.
People behave when there’s a gun.
Or someone else their gun out and just starts shooting because a gun was pointed at them. You can literally find road rage videos of that happening.
People aren’t as uniform in behavior or as smart as you’re giving them credit for.
But suddenly the rightwing don’t carrry guns and are full of self-control? All because a guy in the comments section knows he’d be a bad ass?
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Billy bob doesn’t like that you pointed a gun at his brother/cousin/sister/family/him. Slinks to the back of the crowd draws, bam bam bam.
It takes seconds… But now people think it’s the solution to the original situation where no one died?
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No, we have a deceased bigot, and me on the phone to one of the lawyers in my family, or I’m dead and his ass is going away.
Either way, the girl is ok.
Thank you for your service.
You make it sound like it would be a bad think if the perpetrators got shot and killed for their hate crime. They deserve no better than an untimely end to life.
Louisiana is a shithole state.
This is so horrible. We should be evacuating LGBT people out of red states into blue states.
We should be blockading Nazi shit holes and drone striking their infrastructure.
Religious demographics of Louisiana, 74% Christian, 4% other religions, 21% unaffiliated, according to Pew Research. Wanna take bets that mob had a high percentage of Christians? Would beating a couple of transgenders in the park be new testament treatment, or old testament? I’m thinking the latter…
Being anything other than married cousins in Louisiana gets you a daily beating.
Come to Seattle. I will personally help anyone interested to find a place.
This seems like the textbook definition of a hate crime and one of the perpetrators is the government.
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