Tributes paid to Kesaria Abramidze as ruling party and allies are accused of state campaign against minorities

A well-known Georgian transgender model has been murdered, local officials said, a day after the government passed legislation that will impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ+ rights in the country.

“There is a direct correlation between the use of hate speech in politics and hate crimes,” the Social Justice Center, a Tbilisi-based human rights group, said in its statement reacting to the murder.

  • federal reverseMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There’s a wider context here, which is that this thread is under the article about the murder of a trans activist. There are plenty of anti-LGBTQ+ people who are not self-denying LGBTQ+ people and there are plenty of anti-LGBTQ crimes which are not perpetrated by self-denying LGBTQ+ people.

    If you’d put your comment under the Hungarian-priest-turns-out-to-be-gay article, it’d have been ~fine. If you’d put this under article about Georgia passing this law, it would have been so-so. Here, it’s not a great fit.

    Lastly, this is human communication, there are bound to misunderstandings and different interpretations of things. ¯\(ツ)/¯

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      33·
      2 months ago

      Sure, misunderstandings happen. However my comment was a reply, not a comment under the post. No big deal anyway.