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The FBI is investigating after a right wing extremist appeared to take responsibility for the attack, with the intention of disrupting a local transgender event

• autoexec 4y ago
  Not a "transgender event", just a drag show
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    That's a distinction likely lost on the perpetrators.
    • noirbot 4y ago
      Sure, but still important to point out that we've moved beyond "We'll commit violence to oppress trans people" to "We'll commit violence to prevent people from publicly wearing clothes we don't approve of." which is certainly an escalation. As far as I know most drag performers aren't trans, and most of the ones I know are otherwise straight. This is fully just "you're not conforming to social norms. We will terrorize a county to punish you."
    • nadieyninguno1 4y ago
      • mftrhu 4y ago
        As someone wrote elsewhere, "please stop spewing unconfirmed politically motivated conspiracy theories."
        • nadieyninguno1 4y ago
        • dang 4y ago
          "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• deleted 4y ago
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