Note that I’m not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him – my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the “evil transgenders” stereotype

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    1093·
    4 days ago

    You know something is up when they state that they are transgender when it bears no meaning to the actual article. This would be the same as “Gay man murdered people” the point is bigotry.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        162·
        3 days ago

        If a WASP with a trump shrine and 20 guns has mental health issues and kills 4 people it’s mental health issues.

        If anyone not fitting the conservative mold, even if they have mental health issues, kills people it’s about their differences from the mold that come first. “Mental health” might get a one line mention at the bottom of the article.

      • MTK@lemmy.world
        81·
        3 days ago

        That’s my point, gender has no relation to violent crimes, bringing it up in the headline is just bigoted

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        The real story is “Mentally Ill Person with a History of Knife Crime Stabs Mail Carrier in Fight”

        To the people who consider them being trans headline-worthy, “trans person” and “mentally-ill person” are synonyms.

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      181·
      3 days ago

      the article skips why, but it is actually extremely relevant…

      Cruz’s attorney claimed his client, a transgender woman, lashed out against Hodges because the 36-year-old postal worker had made a slur “about her gender identity.”
      ….
      Cruz claimed that Hodges had ridiculed her with homophobic remarks and struck her several times before she pulled a knife and fatally stabbed him.
      She showed no remorse for her actions when interviewed by detectives at the 28th Precinct in Harlem.

      “I hope he’s maggot food,” Cruz told detectives, according to court documents. “I killed him laughing. Oh, well. I’ll piss on his grave.”.
      Hodges had struck Cruz at least three times during the deli fight before she stabbed him, she claimed.

      “I told him, ‘You come to me and I’ll kill you,’” Cruz told investigators. “No motherf—ers are going to put their hands on me no more.

      “He tried to mess with me because I’m trans, and I poked him up,” Cruz said.

      • justastranger@sh.itjust.works
        91·
        3 days ago

        In a world where cis men have been deemed not guilty for murdering trans people just because they couldn’t tell until they got to the sex, there is no way I’d hold a trans person guilty of murder for defending themselves from an ongoing assault that very well could have escalated to a murder against her.

        • damdy@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          The story seems to be all over the place so it’s hard to piece together.

          Getting in a fight over who’s first for a sandwich though and her comments afterwards make her seem like she was looking for an opportunity for something like this.

          • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            12·
            3 days ago

            the dude started attacking her in a full on hate crime…
            if anyone starts attacking me in a sandwich shop, i am going for maximum damage… i’m not going to just hope they’ll stop attacking me, i will do my best to make it not possible for them to attack (although leaving is the first choice… if i can’t, i’m hurting them).
            she has zero remorse, but i don’t imagine it’s the first time she’s been attacked for being trans.

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        14·
        4 days ago

        You gotta mention that the innocent bystanders are straight, or else conservatives won’t know whether to feel sorry for them or be happy they were attacked.