Tuesday, January 29, 2019

We Are Being Attacked All Over World.

With governments looking the other way to the brutal murders of trans women.

There was a horrendous murder of a trans in Brazil (I won’t write about but you can read it here), but one thing I will quote from the article is this,
The South American nation recently elected their own version of President Donald Trump. Newly installed far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was heavily supported by evangelicals and the religious right. He is notoriously anti-LGBTQ.
We see this all around the world, where the government demonizes us the violence against us goes up. Here in the U.S. hate crimes have increased…
Hate Crimes Increase for the Third Consecutive Year, F.B.I. Reports
The New York Times
By John Eligon
Nov. 13, 2018

Hate crime reports increased 17 percent last year from 2016, the F.B.I. said on Tuesday, rising for the third consecutive year as heated racial rhetoric and actions have come to dominate the news.

Of the more than 7,100 hate crimes reported last year, nearly three out of five were motivated by race and ethnicity, according to the annual report. Religion and sexual orientation were the other two primary motivators.

In addition to the tense political climate, the increase also points to a growing awareness among various law enforcement agencies of the importance of identifying and reporting hate crimes to the F.B.I.

Reporting hate crimes to the F.B.I. is currently voluntary. Last year, roughly a thousand more agencies submitted data than those that did the previous year.
[…]
Much of the country’s political discourse in recent years has been fueled by deep racial divisions. Controversies have ignited this week over a photo of high school students flashing what appears to be a Nazi salute, and a joke by Cindy Hyde-Smith, a white United States senator from Mississippi who ran against Mike Espy, who is black. Ms. Hyde-Smith said that she would attend a public hanging if a supporter asked her to.
A number of the politicians are supporters of white supremacists. Here in Connecticut the Hartford Courant reported a candidate dropped out because,
Gagliardi came forward to fill the vacancy left by the Oct. 12 resignation of the initial GOP candidate Steve Baleshiski, a 22-year-old Southington college student whose online comments against a Parkland High school shooting survivor, immigrants, Islam and other topics sparked an uproar. Baleshiski dropped out after the Republican leadership in the two-town district withdrew their support of him as their candidate.
Then on the national level NBC reported
Rep. Steve Stivers, chairman of the House GOP campaign arm, excoriated Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King on Tuesday for espousing white supremacist viewpoints online and in public remarks.

"Congressman Steve King's recent comments, actions, and retweets are completely inappropriate. We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms, and I strongly condemn this behavior," Stivers, of Ohio, said in a tweet.
The haters are emboldened and are running for office and worst, they are getting elected.

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