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A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype

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[–] Pestilence@feddit.org 48 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

“I killed him laughing. Oh, well. I’ll piss on his grave.”

Sorry, but this IS pure evil.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm trans and find this pretty indefensible. I've gotten slurs yelled at me, I've never started a physical fight over it and certainly never fucking stabbed someone 14 times to death.

[–] Ferretyfever0@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I'd probably feel worse for her if she seemed to have felt anything about this. There's no reason to ever feel happy about having killed someone. Perhaps relieved as in a "it's finally over" kind of way. But finding the fact that you've killed someone funny? Not reasonable whatsoever. He shouldn't have called her slurs, but words deserve words, actions deserve action. Fuck both of them.

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wild that in the article it says he hit her 3 times before she stabbed him.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah. Stabbed him 14 times. Laughing while doing it. Talking about how much she loved it. How she wanted to do it again. Self defense is more than fine, it's damn good to stand up for yourself, but spitting on someone and escalating it into a fight that you use as an excuse to kill someone is unacceptable. If it was a Republican who spat on someone, starting a fight before shooting them 14 times, saying how much he loved shooting her and how he'd love to do it again, I'd say that's indefensible and he's an evil bastard, just like this woman is.

Self-defense endong in the attackers death doesn't make the killer a bad person. The facts of this circumstance, as I know and understand them (which very well may be flawed, it's not like I was there) lead me to the conclusion that she's an evil bastard. Trans people are just fucking people. We can be evil bastards, the same as everyone else. We may be at higher risk of violence due to hateful bigots, but that doesn't excuse the act of murder. The act of killing, sure, if necessary in the course of self defense. However, as I know and understand what happened (and seemingly the jury as well), that was not the case here.

Hate me if you want to, I'm used to it. I just want to speak out because I have seen the whole "excuse terrible actions from your side no matter what and refuse to look at reality" thing from shitbag republicans SO MUCH and I hate to see allies doing it too.