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cjsdowg posted...

No one is saying that you should be able to kill someone for being gay. People are saying that he was not killed for being gay. But (from what has been suggested) that he was killed because he trick to someone into something that he otherwise would not have given consent for. Who here as said that football player should get off ?

Okay, lets say he killed him due to catfishing, completely apart from anything related to sexuality. Then isn't he just a murderer? Since when can you kill someone for catfishing you? People are catfished all day everyday across the planet and very few resort to violence over it.

But people in here are saying that he's not a murder because of the victim's characteristics. Specifically being a man. So they're acknowledging that it wasn't just that he was catfished as we all know that can't justify murder. They're saying it's the fact that he was catfished in this specific way which amounts to rape by deception. Specifically because this was a man that claimed to be a woman and that somehow reduces his culpability.

But that's literally what the gay/trans panic defense is, as I've explained. Reacting with violence to unwanted sexual advances based on the sex/identity of the victim. He reacted that way because of the victim's gender and presumably wouldn't have done that if the victim had lied about being a doctor or a millionaire or being 25.


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