MicroWaveAug 23, 2023

Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts

https://lemmy.world/post/3660014

Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts - Lemmy.world

The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media. The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.

Show threadDadeMurphyAug 23, 2023

There’s no such thing as homophobia, I wish people would stop saying that. 🤦🏻‍♂️

For me, the bigger issue is how this person got a gun in the first place.

Show threadKerrigorAug 23, 2023

That is literally one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

There is absolutely homophobia. There are people who very specifically go out of their way to harass primarily LGBTQ individuals. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US experienced this even in school as a child.

Show threadDadeMurphyAug 23, 2023

No, it’s called bigotry.

If I see a queer person, I don’t go running for the hills, nor do they make me feel irrationally uncomfortable or fearful.

Show threadKalkaline Aug 23, 2023
I get what you’re trying to say: “It’s not fear, it’s hate” but we call that hate homophobia and everyone agrees on the meaning.
Show threadDadeMurphyAug 23, 2023
Exactly. And since we already have words for that, I don’t understand why people have to make up new terminology. If the article called him a bigot, I would still know what the shooting was about.
Show threadFried_out_KombiAug 23, 2023

“Homophobia” has been the accepted and predominant term for anti-gay bigotry for as long as I can remember; no one’s making up new terminology here.

Show threadDadeMurphy

As I said in another comment, Native American has been the terminology for quite some time as well, regardless of the fact that it’s wrong.

My point, so you don’t think I’m trying a straw man argument. Just because something is used for a long time, by the majority of people, doesn’t make it inherently correct.

Aug 23, 2023 at 4:16amWeb
Show threadFried_out_KombiAug 23, 2023

I don’t understand why people have to make up new terminology

I used google trends to show you they’re not; the term has been in common use for literally decades.

Further, you’ve been stating repeatedly in this thread that “homophobia” is incorrect semantically because it’s not a literal fear of gay people. But the literal dictionary definition of “phobia” proves you wrong on this.

Repeating the same alternative facts over and over in this thread doesn’t make them true.