The topic here is specifically about trying to guess the motivations of a murder. I have confronted bigotry against transgender people both in person and online, and by far the cited motivation for that bigotry has been that transgender people are supposedly an affront to “Western family values”. I have had several people level this argument against me on YouTube just this week, as a rationalization for why they think transgender people should die. So I struggle to see how this isn’t relevant. I know that @anon73430903 is in the UK, but the myth that people in the US are beholden to some poorly-understood Euro-Christian ideals seems be very much at the heart of the troubles transgender people face here.
So sure, it bears reminding bigoted US conservatives that what they are politicizing is not as Western, traditional, nor applicable as they suppose it to be. We are dealing with what seems to obviously be a somewhat organized political movement, rather than some sort of contagious emotion.
But I am not going to tell anybody that they can’t prefer to see the problem that way. There is a serious disconnect on BB where people are hostile to anybody framing issues from a perspective differing significantly from their own. I encourage people here to disregard perspectives they prefer to not engage with. But when we ask or tell people to be silent about matters, I think we step beyond our rights and prevent others from discussing important issues.
