Thank you. I’m also worried at how many times the ‘worst in history’ slogan on television and online. To me, that actually glorifies the assailant and makes him a hero to others like him. And it also becomes a goal for them to beat. If anything, I’d like to hear that we are going to ‘allocate the most people and…
Correct terminology is quite important to an argument or discussion.
I see it as relevant simply because we tend to get tunnel vision post tragedy. We focus on things with a microscope where in the grand scheme of history this vicious cycle plays out again and again. Today the LGBTQ community was victims, previously it has been the Native Americans, African Americans & pretty much…
Exactly, the Battle of the Little Bighorn was a worse massacre than this one.
One point of correction: this isn’t the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the US. During the extermination of the native Americans, there were many massacres of this size and greater. This is only the deadliest mass shooting in recent history. I’m deeply upset about this too, but we cannot allow ourselves to…
Jamie has chosen a gender. Non-binary is a gender.
I don’t know a word for that in any language I know. Maybe we could make one up. How about pibling as in parent’s sibling?
The grays on this are sure to be a delight.
There is actually a gender-neutral word that refers to a sibling’s offspring, nibling. It’s like grandchild instead of grandson or granddaughter.
We don’t deserve to be classified improperly against our will.”
Serious question — a young relative came out to me as non-binary gender fluid. Of course I love them beyond measure, and support them fully. But I struggle with pronouns and the language generally. “Mx.” is I think very elegant — fun fact, way back in the 80's (when I worked at the ACLU) I was told that “Ms.” was…
Thanks for the spoiler right there in the headline.
Does this mean that resisting arrest is now a hate crime in Louisiana?
Yep. I really think we’ll see this law used primarily against Black people and other POC.
They can’t say anything without being called racist or sexist or homophobic and it’s definitely not because what they’re saying is racist or sexist or homophobic.
For a group that’s always whining about how discrimination isn’t real, it’s sure real enough when they want something.
Victimized straight white conservative men, who have it harder in life than anyone else these days.
The police are already protected by increased penalties for assaulting one of them or causing harm. Crime committed against the police is already punished more harshly than other crime. They are already a protected class. Honestly, including them in hate crime legislation along with the groups the police routinely…