Also weird that the article title says 'for trans' instead of 'for being transgender'

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Just your daily reminder that even if you're a piece of shit terf that hates trans woman, that your bigotry hurts cis women too.

    You can't be a terf and call yourself a feminist. Terfs hate all women with their actions.

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    87
    8 months ago

    Regardless, when Adams went back to the grocery and called for police from there, it took officers four hours to show up, she said.

    NYPD budget: 10 billion dollars

    acab-2 acab-3 acab-2 acab-3 acab-2 acab-3

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      19
      8 months ago

      Hey, candy crush isn't going to play itself! Our boys in blue are doing their part in keeping the American economy afloat.

    • raven [he/him]
      hexbear
      5
      8 months ago

      Maybe they could invest some of that in call forwarding, but what do I know I only work at a small school with < 200 students that somehow has that technology shrug-outta-hecks

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    There's also the extremely fucked up racist dimension to this where people tend to assume cis black women are trans what-the-hell

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    They totally just want to protect women, though

  • regul [any]
    hexbear
    48
    8 months ago

    The cops' handling of this whole thing is just chefs-kiss

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      40
      8 months ago

      Brown said cops dropped the ball by failing to release the video to the media, as they often do when it is trying to identify and locate a suspect, and by conducting just one cursory phone interview with the victim.

      They probably hired him onto the force.

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    42
    8 months ago

    The anti-trans hysteria is terrifying.

    I've noticed people that are anti-trans are obsessed about it, it's like they think about it constantly, no wonder these fascist pigs act out like this with increasing frequency.

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
    hexbear
    39
    8 months ago

    Staten Island

    Why is it always Staten Island? Does the lack of subway access make them fash?

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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      32
      8 months ago

      They actually do have a metro rail line, but, overall unironically yes. Large parts of it are just a white NYC suburb that can only be reasonably accessed by car, so it's reactionary for the same reasons somewhere like Long Island is reactionary

  • flan [they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Just a misunderstanding

    also delis sell weed in new york? what the hell?

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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      35
      8 months ago

      They legalized weed and then didn't issue any legal licenses to sell it, so a massive grey market sprang up basically overnight

      Also quite a few of the sketchier sort of bodega sold weed even when it was illegal

      • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        15
        8 months ago

        Also quite a few of the sketchier sort of bodega sold weed even when it was illegal

        I remember being with a friend when I was in Brooklyn, and getting an eighth with our sandwiches and drinks.

  • aaro [they/them]
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    8 months ago
    (article quote spoilered for transphobia)

    "He said I was trying to get him fired and that he was going to call the cops," she recounted. "I said, ‘Call the cops! I just want my money back.’ Then I heard him call me a transvestite. I’m like, ‘Transvestite? I’m a whole female. I have lady parts.'"

    i dunno what to think of the victims of transphobic violence not only not being trans, but also being actively transphobic themselves - it's an extremely weird situation out there

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
      hexbear
      18
      8 months ago

      "I don't like that you're kicking my head in because you think I'm trans but I'll defend to death your right to do it!"

    • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      Transvestites are crossdressers, not transpeople. How about not accusing a hate crime victim of being transphobic.

      • aaro [they/them]
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        8 months ago

        I do believe that it is wrong to hate crime someone because of perceived trans status and I side with victims of transphobic violence unconditionally. I'm a little sad that I have to clarify that as a trans person and can't just be given the benefit of the doubt there but if making it explicit helps the discussion and increases people's comfort levels then I'm happy to.

        I'm also operating on the assumption that someone who is willing to beat up a woman because of perceived trans status is not concerned with the legitimate differences between being transgender and being transvestite and the active reappropriation of the latter, and instead just wanted to use the one that sounded like more of a slur. I'm open to being checked if that was an unreasonable assumption.

        • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          I am in fact a transperson too. I just find it distasteful to immediately harp on someone who was a victim of a hatecrime just because they used the wrong words in good faith.

          • raven [he/him]
            hexbear
            7
            8 months ago

            I don't think anyone is doing that though. She has a couple ignorant transphobic brainworms but as far as I'm aware she isn't on hexbear and no one is harping on her.

  • CA0311 [they/them]
    hexbear
    26
    8 months ago

    i don't know anything about this source but it's kind of bitterly amusing that this article has a bunch of pictures of her from different angles, like they know full well that many hogs in their audience are going to want to analyze her appearance and decide for themselves if she "looks trans"

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    22
    8 months ago

    Another case-study in why cis-gender people should have solidarity with trans-people, if only out of self-preservation. The transphobes are fucking crazy.

  • raven [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    They really felt the need to front the fact that she was buying weed and was bi as if those were the most important pieces of information. It smacks of "so long as you aren't queer or buying the devil's lettuce this won't happen to you"

    How about "Woman shopping at NYC deli wearing pride watch" just off the top of my head.