My news feed exploded yesterday with the news of the murder over the weekend of Felycya Harris.
Harris is a black trans woman shot dead in a black neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia.
The common talking point in yesterday’s news was, as CBS News reported:
Transgender woman’s killing in Georgia marks “grim milestone”
Officials in eastern Georgia are searching for a suspect after a Black transgender woman was found shot dead in an Augusta park on Saturday. According to the Human Rights Campaign, 33-year-old Felycya Harris is the 31st transgender or gender non-conforming person to be a victim of fatal violence in 2020, which is now the deadliest year for the trans community since the advocacy group began tracking the killings in 2013.
HRC says transgender people are at heightened risk for fatal violence, especially transgender women of color because of a “a toxic mix of transphobia, racism and misogyny.”
“With news of the death of Felycya Harris, we have hit a grim milestone: We have now matched the highest number of transgender or gender non-conforming people who were victims of fatal violence in one year — and there are three more months left in the year,” HRC President Alphonso David said in a statement. “This epidemic of violence, which is particularly impacting transgender women of color, must and can be stopped.”
There has been no evidence indicating that Harris’s murder was motivated by her status as a trans woman.
A 2020 current total of 31 homicides in 10 months is three per month. Is this really an epidemic? Harris is a black man under the age of 40. The city of Chicago saw 79 black men under the age of 40 shot dead last month.
Let me be a blunt asshole about this.
Homicides in every Democrat-run city are up, way up, Chicago, New York City, and even Agusta, Georgia.
The anti-police zeitgeist, people going stir-crazy because of the lockdowns, a number of factors are driving this.
It is highly likely that Harris is just another victim of local crime and not the victim of an anti-trans hate crime.
But the most important aspect of this story to note is this:
If Harris was killed by a cop, there would be riots. Because Harris was gender non-conforming, the activist Left is using her to push a victim narrative about a transphobic society.
But if Harris looked like what he was, a young black man shot to death in a street crime in a Democrat-run city, the Left wouldn’t even know his name to give a fuck about him.
Unless the Left can turn a young black man into some sort of martyr for a cause, they consider young black men to be entirely disposable.
To the Left, everyone is disposable.
I sort of disagree.
To the left, it is all about hate. No… not their hatred. They are adamant in the belief they hate no one, they have no biases, and are loving and tolerant.
It is about accusing the people on the other side of the political aisle of hatred. If you could not care less about whether someone is gay, you hate gays. Nothing short of celebrating gays and encouraging your children to be gay is acceptable. Same with black lives matter. You cannot simply “say” black lives matter, you have to get out and convert everyone you see into an advocate. Anything less means you hate blacks.
And, now the transgender/sexual group is pushing the hate narrative. There is, in their mind, no possible reason for this individual to end up shot than… wait for it…. hatred of transexuals. Is there likely a different reason? Could he have been participating in a crime at the time he was killed? Were drugs involved?
But, no. If he was trans, then it was a hate crime.
I have also yet to see any proof that black transwomen’s higher rate of death has ANYTHING to do with racism, and isn’t just in line with ALL black people being more prone to being murdered….by other black people. My guess is that when you mix black women who aren’t really women with a black culture that has a severe problem with violence, misogyny, homophobia, and true “toxic masculinity”, you end up with black trasgenders being more at risk. A white guy who hooks up with what he thinks is a woman, and takes things a bit too far before he realizes that it’s not really a woman at all is more likely to just leave disgusted and embarrassed. A black male, statistically speaking, is more likely to pull out a gun and shoot the offending person to maintain their “respect”. Or they are more likely to just shoot the person out of hand due to black male disgust at anything so unmasculine and insulting as a gay person or a brotha dressed as a ho.
Is this ALL black men, or even MOST of them? No, but the statistics speak for themselves, and black people shoot a lot of black people. And the rampant violence and homophobia and misogyny is on display in a large proportion of black music and entertainment mediums. They get all kinds of credit for their “authenticity” until you start pointing out the negative aspects, when immediately you are supposed to assume that for some strange reason this huge section of the black entertainment industry makes music and videos that in no way represent actual black culture or opinions.
If they can judge “white people’ as a monolithic whole based on statistics, I don’t see why I shouldn’t do the same.