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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?"