It’s not that the larger ideological issues don’t matter or that we don’t care about them. It’s that it feels like a slap in the face when those issues get brought up into a very concrete discussion about a particular person or persons who have been hurt or murdered. Like I said, there is a time for these larger structural and social discussions - a thread about the murder of yet another transgendered person being treated as less than important isn’t it.
That’s fine, but the way you want to solve the problem is high level and takes a revolution in our social and communal thinking… these are not changes that happen over night, but take a long time to cement into our society. Sometimes, like in cases like this, it makes more sense to speak concretely. Saying that we should just stand up to or ignore the justice system isn’t an immediate solution to this particular problem. It’s a long term solution that doesn’t need to happen on the back of individual victims.
