Mastodawn

Cannot get my head round how articles like this can say "no evidence of a hate crime" in this context.

I think they must mean either (a) the people charged with the murder knew him, or (b) some or all of them were L/G/B/T/Q.

But like... neither of those proves that the murder wasn't motivated at all by racism, or that it wasn't motivated at all by transmisia. It's bad logic. And erasure i.m.o.

RIP Sam.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/us/transgender-man-murder-new-york-charges/index.html

#SamNordquist #language

2 more people have been charged in the killing of a transgender man in upstate New York

Two more people have been charged with murder in the death of a transgender man who authorities say was tortured for more than a month before being killed in upstate New York.

CNN