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Most cops even in the US don’t fire in the line of duty as well. Our media tends to glamorize and sensationalize faucets of law-enforcement which leads to a lot of meatheads on a power trip joining up. Not all cops mind you. But enough to where it’s a significant problem. I don’t think talking to deescalate is possible in every situation. Like there was no singular sentence that probably had a great chance of stopping Bryant mid swing here. Sometimes force is necessary.

I’m willing to bet the trauma would mostly stem from her almost getting stabbed. But I’m sure you’d tell her the incident before the cop shot wasn’t that extreme. It was just a kitchen knife(honestly wtf did you get that tidbit of information idk), and wax on how it wasn’t for sure that her getting a stabbed would have killed her and how much of a travesty the cop prioritized her welfare over the person trying to stab her.

No. Not all police killings are equal. Not all of them need to be treated like George Floyd and I don’t think you truly believe they are equivalent. rightfully saying that the facisht who was shot by the police for trying to overthrow democracy on the sixth was completely justified. You were not making an argument that the many unjustified police killings were somehow justified because of instance they were.

Extremely rarely. In a case like Bryant that’s one of the extremely rare instances where law enforcement can reasonably be interpreted to use lethal force. It’s a reasonable if. It’s reasonable when there are literally seconds to decide that the person whose mid swing someone with a knife is probably going to stab that someone with a knife for an officer to shoot said person. The person under threat of being potentially murdered safety need take priority. In the other thread @Fez has already cited a neighbor who watched the exchange not agreeing with the initial outrage from those on the street who weren’t under the immediate threat of being stabbed. I believe the police can be justified in using lethal force against those actively and seriously posing a danger towards others especially when there’s a deadly weapon being used.

Can you remove the US part or amend it to being American?

Even with training, it’s a harder target to make. If the officer didn’t make it then the odds of Bryant killing someone remains the same. But you have to acknowledge that sometimes, yes, such force is optimal to use against someone actively putting the lives of others at sever risk. @Week It’s sad that a child is dead. It’d also be sad if this child killed someone—especially potentially another child. So no I’m not going to wag my finger at someone who at the time took the most optimal course of protecting another human being. But hey, maybe the woman/girl Bryant was trying to stab would have appreciated the officer not done that and put her life at more risk.

Bigots: Identity politics is a scourge that only seeks to divide us. Also bigots: We want to be more bigoted and discriminatory.

If you’re still looking I stumbled upon a great Manga that I highly recommend about an enby working at a maid cafe in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_for_Who_I_Am It goes into depth on the various contemporary issues surrounding gender and sexuality in a really nuanced way. Oh and it also briefly calls out the fetishization cis straight males do to transwomen, and girls in a really classy and brief way

That always needs to be recognized. I came across this article. Sodomy laws have been enforced relatively recently in the developed world in many places. Take Britain; ;https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/fifty-years-gay-liberation-uk-barely-four-1967-act Or the US. I know this may sound odd, but I really wish people would talk more about this sort of stuff in terms of talking about recent oppression of gay people.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/12/07/supreme-court-bathrooms-transgender-students-443434 It's weird 2020 hasn't been as bad a year for Lgbt rights as it has been in UK in terms of progress.

Of course. Their abusive shit gays are stepping stones to other bad shit. It hurts my head to Terfs, or vehement transphobic gays complain that their rights are under attack by trans people. As their used as tools further the goals of people who’d actually see any right right or protection they claim to care about stripped.

Yeah, he apparently is also a homophobe. Not surprising. He even helped push for a higher age of for homosexuals. The guy’s clearly a massive bigot who’ll use children to his advance his bigotry. Heaven’s to bet if he got his way same-sex relations would be illegal for anyone.

Fucking hell, I felt like gagging when I heard that. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/06/keira-bell-lawyer-warns-on-internet-coverage-of-transgender-issues Jesus Christ. This really pisses me off. I can’t tell you how often I’ve seen people cry free speech whenever any transphobe got a negative consequence for their actions. Even if it was harassing transwomen that had to be defended because free speech. If the UK gives a propaganda law like that not one of those assholes will criticize it for it being a blantant attack on free speech.

It should always be noted most of the people pushing for things like have nothing to say about gender reassignment surgery on babies if they’re intersex.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/06/millennial-men-lgbt-attitudes-sexuality-research-social-policy-meredith-worthen-study/ Curious on what you folks think of this? @karaddin you normally have pretty nuanced takes.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/11/hungary-drafts-legislation-to-ban-adoption-for-same-sex-couples/ Fuck this is madening. How dare gay couples try to give a child a loving home?

Ah. I mean if this cute trans woman is saying the same things I am, I can’t be that bigoted right? Sorry, I don’t know your mother, I tend to see this as a lot of the reason for any support from the right on a particular individual in lgbtq. This gay guy says straight people are oppressed by non-heterosexuals in a world where there are countries where you can get killed or imprisoned for that. And says being straight is superior So I’m not homophobic when I say the exact same things.

Yeah. Still irritating to think about them pretending to care about gay rights--ie reference gays being killed for their sexual orientation--and act asking for anything more than the ability to not be stoned to death is overstepping.

I saw this depressing comment on the seemming trajectory of things; Conservatives in 2017: I'm not personally homophobic, but I don't want businesses to be forced to violate their own religion Today: I'm not personally homophobic, but I don't want government workers to give out marriage certificates that violates their religious beliefs. 2024: I'm not personally homophobic, but I think states should be allowed to criminalize sodomy if that's what they want. Future: Is it wrong to be homophobic? Genuinely curious to see which gay guys prager u will trot out to argue why gay marriage is super bad. I'm betting they'll be a reference gays being executed in Saudi Arabia as a rational for why expecting equal and fair treatmeant under the law in the US is totally unfair--they should be thankful to just not be killed, and be quiet.

Women orgs who'd align with far-right groups to beat up transfolk. The ideology of Terfs kinda reminds me of an old quote from a racist unionist in the 1800s. ”We’d rather be a slave to capital than a brother to the negro.” TerFs today. ”We’d rather be slaves to the patriarchy, than a sister to a trans.”

I know this is a little late but: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.metroweekly.com/2020/01/intersex-navy-veteran-asks-10th-circuit-to-uphold-ruling-allowing-them-to-get-gender-neutral-passport/amp/ I just have to wonder if this, or any other case featuring discrimination against an intersex individual gets to the Supreme Court what possible rational could the conservative Justices give for it being permissible.

I’ve stumbled across this article when I was researching on how those who have a binary view of sex could explain the intersex. Whenever I’ve broached this concept individually with some types, they simply restate sex is completely binary. This article basically does just that. Restate that intersex people could be labeled man or woman and offers no third alternative despite the possibility an intersex may have a penis and labia, or A testicle and ovary. It offers no method what to do in such a situation. I fear perhaps it's advocating for surgery to ”correct” a person’s genitalia. And proceeds to fear-monger about how transgenders are the true threats to women and gay rights. It's quite maddening when people try to pass their transphobia off as just being some ”Progressive.” worry.

Some more bad news: https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1021031 I do wonder/hope if it’s not so much there’s an increasing lack of tolerance in regards to LGBTQ issues or that the general perception of what people think of when they hear these questions of “LGBTQ” issues has skewed the answers. Like I imagine since Transgender individuals have been given a lot more focus over the years, the answers would have been effected. The questions are formatted the same, but the perception of what is being asked has evolved. Like it should be noted even among republicans the younger crowd amongst those in favor of gay marriage being allowed has gone up.

I’ve recently stumbled upon this article. I find it to be a sobering reminder that just how fragile LGBTQ issues including gay marriage is in the US, hell even if States could legally ban homosexual acts(Remember Texas v.Lovings literally happened in 2003, and 2 of Trump’s appointees’ comments on it are concerning to say the least) could become subject to contention now. https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/articles-amp/843202/censoring-gay-marriage-tv-could-ominous-sign-things-come More reason to move out of the country. Also, it does highlight a problem that’s being touted among too many people. That homophobia all together no longer is an issue, that gays don’t face massive societal persecution, and that you’d be hard pressed to find a real homophobe. Such sentiment is quite frankly more dangerous than explicit anti-gay rhetoric given it lulls the public into a sense of undeserved safety.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48363362 A truly brave man.