The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media.
The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.
I saw them doing it to a baby killer in another thread. Other people were calling them ableist for it and I think that’s what everyone ought to do.
Doing evil things does not mean you are mentally ill. People can choose to do evil and just because they refuse to understand that doesn’t make it true. Assuming evil must be mental illness denied mentally ill people their agency and ownership of their choices. I read others calling them out on catering to stereotypes of the mentally ill as violent and dangerous…
Why aren’t the rest of you telling them to stop?
You know blatant ableism like that means they’re likly right-wingers concern trolling for their dumbass fascist friends, right? Labeling others mentally ill is what the right does to trans people so why don’t you think they’d cynically exploit you by labeling their allies mentally ill to absolve them of responsibility for their actions?