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Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' voice actor, killed in San Antonio shooting (i.imgur.com)

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jonathan-joss-king-hill-voice-actor-killed-san-antonio-shooting-rcna210437

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 181 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile, Texas cops say no evidence of a hate crime.

As if the whole country isn’t tacitly approving of this by embracing hate and apathy.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago

The only good Republican is a dead Republican.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago

This is fucking crazy... How's this NOT a hate crime? Did the fucking perp say "it's not a hate crime cuz i loved doing it" and they said "fair enough?" Wtaf

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 77 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ohhhh....this provides much needed context & clarity that I didn't have before. When I hear there's been a 'shooting' in America, while this is technically correct, I don't think it's one person shooting another. I hear 'shooting', and I think one or more shooters/multiple targets/largely indiscriminate just one group vs another.

By all accounts, this is very discriminatory & targeted. Obviously. I would word it as "Jonathan Joss murdered", then explain he was gunned down by a deranged homophobe.

Until just now, I genuinely assumed Mr. Joss got caught up in a mall or gang shooting. This is especially tragic & inexcusable, such targeted hatred.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 90 points 4 days ago

God fucking damn it. I am so sick of this shit.

[-] tatann@lemm.ee 53 points 4 days ago

Texas, the Islamic State of America

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 22 points 4 days ago

American Taliban

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Y'all-Qaeda" was never a joke, but a very fitting name for these religious lunatics.

[-] TurnOnTheSunflower@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

They should just keep to polishing their suvs vigorously when they get "impure" thoughts.

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Can't use that as a slur anymore.
The US proxy is whitewashed, just as the Taliban was when they could use them.

[-] midori@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago

This is fucking horrible.

[-] match@pawb.social 49 points 4 days ago

i am hot with rage actually

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 4 days ago

What the fuck

[-] yuri@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago

i actively avoid texas whenever i have to drive cross country. i’ve gone as much as 4 hours out of my way. every time they threaten to secede i hope TO GOD they go through with it.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago

So many of our current problems could have been solved by expelling Texas fifty years ago

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago

Sounds like they were gangstalked.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Have the assailants been arrested or revenged? Some good guy with a gun gonna kill these criminals?

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

I don't even want to know what this part is in response to.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Jesus Christ

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

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[-] vader8er@pawb.social 36 points 4 days ago

This is such an insulting and frankly stupid take. Homophobia is not the work of self-hating gays, it's just bigots being bigots. I'm sure that some closeted self-loathing gay folks do this kind of shit, but if you're seriously suggesting that the only people who are willing to throw out homophobic slurs and violence towards gay people are other gay people then I don't know what to say. Conservatives are hateful bigots to virtually every minority group on the planet, but only with homophobia are they accused of being the thing they're being hateful towards. Why? I've never seen a racist accused of secretly being black, or a anti-semite being secretly Jewish, but apparently every homophobe is just a poor confused homosexual trying to throw of the scent.

Speaking as a gay dude, please stop this victim-blaming bullshit.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

You have to be right, of course, demographically speaking. There's no way the amount of bigotry we see could come entirely from a fraction of a minority, as the person above you is implying.

That said, it is difficult to reconcile that with a key feature of homophobic (and transphobic, etc.) rhetoric that is not present in racist beliefs: homosexuals are accused of choosing to be gay.

Which, of course, is as absurd as accusing someone of choosing to be black. And yet we hear one of these constantly, and never the other.

How is it even possible for someone to think that sexuality is a choice, unless they are constantly and actively "choosing" their own? That's not a rhetorical question. I genuinely can't make sense of it and that bothers me deeply.

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