The attacks claimed the lives of an Indiana woman and an Oregon man, both cisgender people.

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      You read an article about two people in separate incidents being killed over transphobic hatred and you don’t see a connection?

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      Wait, isn’t the relationship anti-trans sentiment? I only read the title.

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        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

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          “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.

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            Article: Here is the way these murders are related.

            That guy: but what about all the ways they aren’t related?

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          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.

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        not at all, but if you’d like to think that then go right ahead. positive thinking is right up there next to prayer in usefulness!

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        the rag it’s published in, for one - huffpo only barely qualifies as journalism and often creates stories from whole cloth. did the murders happen? yes. is it awful and sad? yes again. are they related? not a chance

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      I’m so confused by the “woman who was killed for being transexual even though she wasn’t transexual” and how that’s related to a really obviously homophobic killing

      This is fucking gash journalism

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        Your comment is lazy and lacks serious empathy. The lady was murdered with a razor blade to the throat because some fucking guy thought she was transgender. And the other guy was stabbed for standing up for his friend a transgender person.

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        It wasn’t a homophobic killing. The second death was because the man made comments about a trans woman and the man stepped in to defend her. Did you read it? They were both about transphobia.

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        My dog doesn’t understand why the mailman keeps showing up every day.

        Doesn’t mean there’s not a reason the mailman shows up everyday, just that my dog isn’t smart enough to understand it.

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        Your comment is like saying “The guy paid $50,000 for an old IBM computer even though the computer wasn’t really an IBM - how is that related to people who like IBM computers?”