"kinda care less about dems when right wingers are literally killing queer people"
According to this article, about 600 LGTBQ people were murdered between 1998 - 2018. (1) That works out to be about 30 per year. And that's murders total--we don't know how many of those people were murdered for reasons unrelated to their sexuality. Matthew Shepard, for example, appears to have been killed because of a drug dispute, not because he was gay. (3)
But let's assume that all of the murdered gay people were murdered because they were gay. Gay murders make up 0.2% of all murders (~24,000/year). The number of gay people murdered is less than the number of children who drown in buckets each year (~150). (2)
Even if we assign all gay homicides to right wing hate, it doesn't seem like a very big problem to me.
1) https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/10/31/more-than-600-lgbtq-people-killed-us-past-two-decades-since-matthew-shepard-murder/1670264002/
2) https://www.montcopa.org/DocumentCenter/View/1020/Pool-Safety
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Matt
#archer_politics
According to this article, about 600 LGTBQ people were murdered between 1998 - 2018. (1) That works out to be about 30 per year. And that's murders total--we don't know how many of those people were murdered for reasons unrelated to their sexuality. Matthew Shepard, for example, appears to have been killed because of a drug dispute, not because he was gay. (3)
But let's assume that all of the murdered gay people were murdered because they were gay. Gay murders make up 0.2% of all murders (~24,000/year). The number of gay people murdered is less than the number of children who drown in buckets each year (~150). (2)
Even if we assign all gay homicides to right wing hate, it doesn't seem like a very big problem to me.
1) https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/10/31/more-than-600-lgbtq-people-killed-us-past-two-decades-since-matthew-shepard-murder/1670264002/
2) https://www.montcopa.org/DocumentCenter/View/1020/Pool-Safety
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Matt
#archer_politics