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Originally posted by keshaspearsxo
Absolutely not. Though gun laws certainly should be in question, this tragedy took place on one basis: this mans homophobia. He was lead to murder 50 LGBT+ people during pride month in an LGBT+ club because he witnessed two men kissing. He purposely went to a place he knew would be filled with a minority group with weapons in hand with the intent to kill. This tragedy has further lead to the continued spread of hate both through homophobia and islamophobia. You can take away the guns but it will not take away the hate that fuelled the entire thing. Every shot of that gun rang with the sound of homophobia. His gun was just a vehicle through which he expressed his hate. This is absolutely an issue of homophobia.
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I hear you. But there are plenty of homophobic and racist people of America to go around. Yet these mass murders are few and far inbetween. For someone to go out of their way to massacre a people group, it runs deeper than phobia. They have to follow a doctrine that celebrates, encourages or at least justifies murder for a cause. For example, Dylan roof wasn't just racist, he was linked to white supremacist groups that have encourage ethnic cleansing.
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Originally posted by fabilicious
Homophobic violence by religious/right wing extremists is a phenomen.
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not negating that.
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Originally posted by Badger
Exploit this? Gay people were murdered in a homophobic attack. You've got some nerve.
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Yeh but he wasn't attacked, nor were his friends, he's not even American. Yet he dubbed it as an "attack on gays in the western world" as if to take some ownership of the hardship. And that's where he lost me because I find that pretty disingenuous. Thats like a white American talking about how persecuted they are because of tribalism in South Africa. I don't like the way he personalises it.
