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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.
Just as a reminder that divisions like left and right are bullshit and people can be assholes or saints on either one.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
I've met decent center righters and center lefters. It's the extremists on both sides you gotta watch out for.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
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.
"Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough."
-TR
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.
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.
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.
