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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 months ago

    Just baffles me how some people can be so intolerant.

    Yes, it was a reply to your comment that literally says “Just baffles me how some people can be so intolerant.” How is my comment not understood that it relates to those people, I don’t know.

    • federal reverseMEnglish
      6•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)/¯

      • @[email protected]English
        0•2 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 months ago

      Sometimes the bandwagon goes down the wrong trail and it’s hard to get back. Don’t worry, happens to everyone sometimes. Just be glad it’s just random internet strangers and meaningless internet points :)