UT Lesbian Beaten By Men Who Dragged Her Into Their Truck
Joining the shameful list of gay-bashings we’ve seen in the past two weeks is the assault on Kristen Cooper, a student at the University of Texas San Antonio, who says she was beaten by two men because she is a lesbian.
The men grabbed Cooper and dragged her into their truck while she was waiting for a ride outside a Halloween party. Once inside the truck, they began punching her and shouting anti-gay slurs.
Cooper told San Antonio’s KENS5, “It was bad, it hurt really bad, it was like full fist and I tried to fight them off, but I couldn’t.” Doctors have told Cooper she has a concussion, contusion and whiplash, in addition to the bruises covering her body. “I’m just still in shock and I’m trying really hard not to cry,” she says. “But nothing like this should happen to anybody.”
Well, maybe to the guys who did this. Isn’t that what Texas justice is all about?
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: No. I don’t think it’s a coincidence at all. Which is why every time I hear, especially a political or otherwise well know person make derogatory statements about gays, lesbians or homosexuality in general, I just want to shake them and tell them to pull their heads out of their asses and LEARN something.
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@Mr. Enemabag Jones: Not really.
Actually, it’s a bit like 1930′s Germany. The Nazis upped the anti-semitic rhetoric, and their abuse increased.
Ugh.
Nazis did it in the name of racial purity, Fundamentalist Christians do it in the name of religious purity.
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Why did both shitbird reporters feel compelled to say the victim “CLAIMED,” as if they had some reason to doubt the truth of her statement?
The victim SAID, or the victim THINKS she was a victim of a hate crime because she’s gay.
That is both accurate and neutral.
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@Mr. Enemabag Jones: Well, when Bush was in power, everybody blaimed him any time there was a gaybashing. Funny how no one ever blames Obama (not that EITHER should have been blamed, but…people put the blame on whatever fits their own agendas).
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In Texas, all you have to do to obtain a concealed handgun permit is to pass a proficiency test, fill out a form and wait about two months to half a year. As of this time, Texas has yet to allow concealed handguns on a school campus, but Texas is considering it. Ms. Cooper was not on school grounds at the time.
I really, really hoping that gay men and women start equipping themselves to deal with gay bashers. You can take self-defense classes or start arming yourself. I would suggest getting that firearm. It’s more practical, in my view. It would definitely make people think twice before initiating a gay bashing, even if they outnumber their target (and they always seem to have to outnumber the people they’re assaulting).
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Guns are not the answer. Education is.
The LGBT community needs to learn self- defense. Learn to be aware of the situation around you, learn to think defensive, learn to act. There are non-lethal means of protecting yourself. You have every right to protect yourself. And we all need to stop homophobia so these attacks do not happen.
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Wait… how is there question as to whether it’s a hate crime or not?
Unfortunately this sort of thing often goes unreported. As does ‘corrective rape’.
I notice that many people are advocating the use of guns. Let’s see how that flies on college campuses. Also, remember that carrying a gun that one does not know how to use is useless! Guns actually take upkeep, they are not pepper spray!
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@samthor: I am calling right here and right now for every gay man, woman and child to rise up in violent, armed revolt against the Christo-Islamo-heterosexual Axis of Evil. You know who else was anti-gun? Hitler.
Fuck Godwin’s “law” and fuck you.
And fuck Utah. And fuck Mormonism.
@CBRad: That’s a step in the right direction. By the way, I take offense of your using the word “straight” to refer to heterosexuals. That’s no less offensive than one of those breeder pieces of shit calling me a faggot. It implies that that disgusting lifestyle is normal and our superior homosexuality is abnormal.
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@Queer Supremacist: Well by that terrible non-Godwin non-logic, you know who else is anti-guns and anti-violence? The Canadian public. And same-sex marriage is legal in Canada, and we have one of the lowest gay-bashing rates in the world. So you might want to re-think your “my way of bloody revolt is the only way” stance.
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Texas is like the child I would like to put out of the house and make go live with its crazy uncle named Mexico.