OR Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Punching Trans Woman

[Carolyn Marie]

https://www.kxl.com/man-convicted-of-hate-crime-for-punching-transgender-woman/

 

 

Carolyn Marie

[NB Adult]

Sorry bastard, 75 days isn't enough! Wonder if he's even a US citizen because it seems thatmany who aren't seem to be prone to these unexpected acts of violence.

[Jackie C.]

You've got that backwards NB. Immigrants (and especially undocumented ones) are dramatically less likely to commit a crime than natural born citizens.

 

I don't like that he got probation though. I'd like to think he'd be at least subject to some kind of sensitivity and diversity program. We also don't know exactly what led up to the "fight." He definitely has issues that need to be addressed though. You don't just pop someone when they're standing in line.

 

I blame testosterone. I've seen people flush with testosterone throw punches over just the dumbest things.

 

Hugs!

[Carolyn Marie]

1 hour ago, Jackie C. said:

. We also don't know exactly what led up to the "fight." He definitely has issues that need to be addressed though.

 

There was enough evidence to include a hate crime charge.  It seems to me that his motivation was homophobia, transphobia and just plain hate.  I agree that counseling would be appropriate.

 

Carolyn Marie

[Jackie C.]

That's a low bar in Oregon right now (I checked). It qualifies as a hate crime because there were homophobic slurs followed by violence. It looks like if you commit a violent crime against a protected group, it's automatically a hate crime in Oregon.

 

What Makes it a Hate Crime in Oregon

[NB Adult]

6 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

You've got that backwards NB. Immigrants (and especially undocumented ones) are dramatically less likely to commit a crime than natural born citizens.

 

I don't want you correcting me about that unless you can come up with statistics proving otherwise, because I'm reading articles almost daily about illegal immigrants committing outrageous crimes of violence against citizens. Just recently here in Washington state four citizens were murdered by illegal immigrants, one of them cut a teenager up into pieces afterwards. Better come up with some statistics if you actually believe that.

[Jackie C.]

As you wish.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/is-illegal-immigration-linked-to-more-or-less-crime/

 

https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-crime-assessing-evidence

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/03/us/immigrants-crime-numbers/index.html

 

I'm not saying he couldn't have been second or third generation inner city, and he COULD have been an immigrant but odds are that he was just a domestic -censored-.

[NB Adult]

Latino's are one of the ethnicities most universally biased against trans people, African Americans come in second. Those that have the least amount of exposure to mainstream American culture tend to act out violently based on their personal convictions. That's not to say they don't have plenty of trans folks within their own ethnicities, but they regularly act out with extreme prejudice and violence against trans people due to prejudice and bias against those of us who are different. Many of those women we recently held the annual memorials for were murdered primarily by one ot these two ethnicities. I suspect that it comes as a mix based on family religious beliefs and sheer ignorance.