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Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:00 am
by LittleRaven
Huh.
When Nikki Joly's Jackson home burned down in 2017, some believed the fire was a hate crime against the transgendered, gay-rights activist who had fought for a local anti-discrimination ordinance.
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“Real hate crimes are on the rise,” Graham Cassano, associate professor of sociology at Oakland University, said Monday. “But as these crimes increase and become publicized, it’s not surprising to me that people would take the opportunity to use this to their advantage and fabricate hate crimes.”
Authorities are accusing Joly, who was named Citizen of the Year by the Jackson Citizen Patriot last year, of setting fire to his own home and killing his pets, two dogs and three cats. He has been charged with first-degree arson.
Poor animals.
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:02 am
by BridgeConsoleMasher
So much for the tolerant left...
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:58 am
by Yukaphile
Just as a reminder that divisions like left and right are bullshit and people can be assholes or saints on either one.
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:29 am
by BridgeConsoleMasher
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:35 am
by Yukaphile
I've met decent center righters and center lefters. It's the extremists on both sides you gotta watch out for.
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:56 am
by Admiral X
Authorities are accusing Joly, who was named Citizen of the Year by the Jackson Citizen Patriot last year, of setting fire to his own home and killing his pets, two dogs and three cats. He has been charged with first-degree arson.
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:00 am
by BridgeConsoleMasher
Yukaphile wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:35 am
I've met decent center righters and center lefters. It's the extremists on both sides you gotta watch out for.
All I'd really say is that, while there is a divide, and I humbly abide to a side, the idea that either side is repellent to contemptible approaches to partisan issues is absurd. I'm mainly just talking about online discourse though, though it is a foundation.
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:10 pm
by Darth Wedgius
If he did that to his pets I wouldn't piss on the man if he were on fire.
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:47 pm
by Karha of Honor
Yukaphile wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:35 am
I've met decent center righters and center lefters. It's the extremists on both sides you gotta watch out for.
Why?
Re: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:15 pm
by BridgeConsoleMasher
Slash Gallagher wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:47 pm
Yukaphile wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:35 am
I've met decent center righters and center lefters. It's the extremists on both sides you gotta watch out for.
Why?
Because they tend to set their houses on fire to emulate hate crimes or unload firearms on to groups of people in a non-terrifying manner. But like not all conservative valued or socially conscious people are like that.
