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Attackers carve slur on young lesbian
Reuters ^
| Thu Mar 28, 7:58 PM ET
| Ann Rostow, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network
Posted on 03/28/2002 8:02:29 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: jla; RepublicanChick
Now you tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm getting the feeling that most of you folks who see hoodlums that beat up, and/or kill, gays as 'friends of society'. I think that most of us have enough of a sense of decency that however perverted we think homos are, we don't believe in that brand of vigilante judgment.
Give us more credit than that.
I think many of us feel threatened by a pervasive ideology that is antithetical to what we feel a decent society is like... I would venture to say that a fair number of us don't subscribe to views like that of RepublicanChick, "Homosexuality is not learned, it is not something that one chooses." I realize that's the PC view; whether one believes it or not makes all the difference in the world on how one views gays...
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posted on
03/29/2002 10:35:05 AM PST
by
maxwell
To: Razz
Which one is you? #167?
To: jla
And whether this particular story is true or not, things like this go on. Idiot
To: TankerKC; jla
Things like this do happen, and when they do the attackers should be jailed, and swiftly. As should the hoaxer when they file false reports.
But then again, in the tolerant minds of liberals, they shouldnt be punished for the hoax. After all, it COULD happen, and they were just trying to raise "awareness." Which many times has been the defense used to defend these types of hoaxers. And the more often these hoaxes occur, the harder it is for victims of actual attacks to be taken serious and get justice.
To: jla;TankerKC
And whether this particular story is true or not, things like this go on. No they don't. Thugs do not leave the delicate tracings of a self-mutilator with their razors.
Maybe she was heckled by group of pr**ks is a passing car. That could have been a trigger. Cutters will act out when they are angry, panicked, or deeply anxious.But it's plain she's confabulating about the assault.
The girl needs help - that part isn't imaginary.
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posted on
03/29/2002 12:56:11 PM PST
by
SarahW
To: jla
And whether this particular story is true or not, things like this go on.Or at least they should, so you can be outraged about it.
"I hope sombody really hurts you, so I can hurt them back." -- Frank Sinatra
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posted on
03/29/2002 1:10:33 PM PST
by
monkey
To: wardaddy
Maddox was also found guilty, and told that he had to pay up . Then, he more or less disappeared, I think that he was also stripped of his law liscence; but I may be wrong about that.
I'm dyng to hear the Upper Nyack story. LOL
To: Phantom Lord
I see you have zero knowledge of the history of tattooing and piercing. And probably even less interest in learning it or why people do it.If you mean the historical roots of these things, yeah, who gives a rat's @$$?! I do know that in modern times, up until quite recently, it was indeed the seedy underclass who did these things. I'm old enough to have seen this. As to why people do it now: herd mentality, of course.
To: Marine Inspector
I saw the phrase "Working Party", and said this guy must have been in the Marines. And you were. Semper Fi. Funny how that works. Good call!
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I really enjoyed eves-dropping on this one folks! It broke the middle-east tensions for a while. Thanks.
Her family/parents probably saw her various cuts and asked her about them and she probably made up the story about being attacked to cover herself.
...And they said, "Quick, call the media!"
Roberta Quintana, Quintana's mother, said the attack was the third time Mora has been beaten for being gay . . .
. . . She said it reminded her of the gruesome beating death of Matthew Shepard in 1998 . . .
. . . "The whole time I was driving to the hospital, I was picturing her on that fence," Roberta Quintana said.
Curious, imho.
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posted on
03/29/2002 7:33:19 PM PST
by
Drumbo
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'm a liberal? Wow, that's news to me.
I don't think that, if she is lying (and I agree, it's probable that she is), she should be held up as a martyr for a cause, or as a heroine for drawing attention to gay bashing.
Especially since, if she was lying, she was obviously not gay bashed.
However, I think that some of the remarks on this thread, calling a 17-year-old such horrible names, draw attention to the cruelty and ignorance of many of the posters. This young woman, this child, is in pain and in need of help. She also needs to be punished for filing a false report, if indeed she lied. But for goodness' sakes, she's not a hardened criminal who needs to be damned to hell the way you people have been doing...
OH, heck. Why am I bothering? If she was a fetus, you'd care about her and her life. Since she's an actual living, breathing human, you are all too quick to hate her.
NOT a liberal,
Rangersdaughter
To: Jeff Chandler
What herd is bigger, those that are pierced and tattooed, or those that are not?
To: Kalashnikov_68
Looks self inflicted to me.
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posted on
04/01/2002 3:57:20 AM PST
by
Khepera
To: SarahW
My initial response on this thread was not really on the topic's story, whether factual or not.
It was on another Freeper's reply.
Forgive me for not being articulate enough in clarifying my point, which I though was very clear.
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posted on
04/01/2002 6:49:10 AM PST
by
jla
To: monkey
Or at least they should, so you can be outraged about it.Wrong, I'm not outraged.
Do you're simian friends have the same reading comprehension trouble as you do?
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posted on
04/01/2002 6:54:47 AM PST
by
jla
To: TankerKC
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posted on
04/01/2002 6:57:49 AM PST
by
jla
To: RepublicanChick
I will not and will never believe that God created humans to be so intolerant to one another. We are put on the earth to be the best people that we can be and love ALL of mankind. I truly believe that this is the lesson to learn for all of us. Do unto others, etc. Where do you get this idea?
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posted on
04/01/2002 7:25:04 AM PST
by
Sloth
To: jla
Do you're (sic) simian friends have the same reading comprehension trouble as you do?They don't even try to read or write. There's something to be said about knowing one's limitations, eh?
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posted on
04/01/2002 2:02:19 PM PST
by
monkey
To: Marine Inspector
I'm waiting for some Ivy League purebread to claim assault by some minority who spreads cream cheese on her and forcibly braids her blonde locks into cornrows.
Since when does a razor only produce welts? Any witnesses to this "attack"? Sounds like BS.
To: Phantom Lord
Things like this do happen, In all seriousness, and not meaning to join the current flaming on the thread, really? I am seriously unaware of any case like this that didn't involve a hoax. I know about people slashed and disfigured with knives. But not about people carving words into others. Is there any incident like this you're actually aware of? Or were you making a more general point about gay-bashing?
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