Posted on 03/22/2023 8:07:53 AM PDT by Salman
Chicago — Prosecutors say a Chicago man robbed another man at gunpoint during a Grindr hook-up and drove away with a car belonging to the victim’s roommate. Erick Collins, whose defense attorney said he is a 28-year-old church deacon, was held in lieu of a $7,500 bail payment by Judge Kelly McCarthy during a court hearing on Tuesday afternoon.
Collins asked the future victim to “help him out” and “be generous” during a chat on the LGBTQ-focused dating app, so the victim offered to pay Collins $40 if they had sex, prosecutors said. Doorbell video allegedly showed Collins arriving at the victim’s Englewood apartment a short time later, around 11:30 a.m. on March 1.
But the victim grew uneasy when Collins started looking around the house as if he were assessing the victim’s property, so the victim asked him to leave, prosecutors said.
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Doesn’t matter, just the facts; “racist, gun-weilding priest robs gay man”.
This is a growing crime, at least in Chicago. Black men (who may or may not be gay) arrange Grindr “dates,” usually with white homos with a taste for dark meat. The victim is often too embarrassed to make a formal complaint. Of course once in awhile they wind up dead, and the authorities take it from there. Shootings and assaults in hotels are also a regular occurrence, but naturally hotel mgmt. prefers that that info be kept on the down-low, so to speak.
Probably a false heretical one.
Talk about a soft target! That’s evil and clever at the same time.
I don’t know. Once you morally descend to the level of gay hook-up apps, nothing else is off the table.
The Church of What's Happinin’ Now ?
Somebody is gonna have a bad case of Deacon Blues
Name a church ... ANY CHURCH ... and I can find you someone who will call it false and heretical.
He is probably thinking “This is great! I used to have to roll them down at the bus station, but now I can’grindr’ them and have the meet me to be robbed, so I don’t have to waste any time!” How convenient they have made it for us “church folk” who have to make a living somehow!
Extortion, emotional blackmail is common theme with younger men (gay and not) targeting socially vulnerable “older men” (30+) who might as well be invisible. Everyone wants to be seen and connect on a human level with someone else no matter how independent we may be.
Some genuinely like, need, or want the emotional and financial stability of an “older man.” Other men like this deacon are predators.
Despite what is depicted by Hollywood and social media, not all young gay men are slim, affluent suburban musical theater whites looking to supplement their weed habits. Many young gay men come from terrible circumstances, broken homes, absentee fathers, history of abuses, etc. particularly in the Black community which has a peculiar relationship with homosexuality. It’s common enough for the term “down low” to be a thing and yet it’s not openly acceptable because of cultural images of hypermasculinity as the standard.
One of my friends commented on his cousin with a baby and another on the way, if you haven’t been making babies by the time you are twenty, something is wrong with you. Doesn’t matter if you can take care of them. On the flip side of that, I am not sure boys know how to become men. At every corner men are belittled, blamed, mocked and infantilized. Too many are raised by single moms who don’t know what it’s like to be a man and are influenced by feminist theories and politics. Boys need role models and need to understand it’s OK to like cars, cops and cowboys. Boys are falling behind in education. Men should be allowed to authentically express themselves without fear of reprisals. If they are quiet they are criticized, if they share their feelings they are monsters.
There’s a war on men that has replaced the goal of equality and the victims are generations of boys coming of age not sure where they fit in or how to fit in. It’s not about the patriarchy when the culture is trying to replace it with a matriarchy. Women and select minorities can have safe spaces to be themselves. Men, particularly white men, can’t.
Some black scholars are noticing and speaking up while risking getting cancelled. People of my generation learned through cartoons that the good guys don’t stoop to the level of the bad guys. That’s not what’s happening with woke culture. The answer to having been a victim isn’t to victimize others.
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