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The cowards, this is how its being reported on all major news channels. Lie after lie.
In a statement to ABC News, the Owasso Police Department said it suspected the cause of Benedict's death, but refrained from saying anything pending the results of the medical examiner's office.
The students of Oklahoma are holding walkouts to honor Nex. It would be appreciated if you joined any nearby vigil or march honoring them, in solidarity.
Remember that this wasn't some passive death, transphobes actively and knowingly agitated harm against them. This was a murder, not a suicide. They, an indigenous trans minor, died in the hospital after being assaulted in the bathroom by 6 transphobes.
Last week, a family buried their nonbinary child, Nex Benedict, who died after being brutally beaten in the girls’ bathroom at their high school in Oklahoma. According to their mother, 16-year-old Benedict had been bullied relentlessly for a year leading up to the incident, in which a group of peers ganged up on them and a trans student. It’s a horrific case and one that is inseparable from its context amid a climate of seemingly unceasing anti-LGBT demonization in the state and the nation.
Remember, an injury against one of us is an injury against all of us.
Tangentially related, but I've been seeing some liberals scolding people for using phrases like "Rest in power" or "say their name" when referring to Nex, because Apparently those terms are reserved for black people?
It just feels deeply tone deaf and inappropriate to me, to see liberals look at the death of a trans, indigenous, child, and choose to police people's words and grief, rather than contend with the tragedy unfolding in front of them.
And I'd consider you correct. The struggles may not be 1:1 exactly the same, but they're intractably linked; as much as my dander might spike at anglos misusing AAVE. In this case, it's not a misuse in the slightest. Like I said, the struggle is intractably linked; it's really no different from applying those phrases to Palestine's martyrs.
those people are literally rewriting history. these terms are and were never intended to be reserved for a single group - it runs counter to their actual meaning. they're an acknowledgement of those who have been unjustly taken from us, a claim to solidarity, and a promise to take power to prevent such deaths in the future. that's why it's rest in power over rest in peace - peace is what led to these deaths. this attempt at division is entirely intended to prevent meaningful change when deaths like these should galvanize us towards further solidarity and a recommitment to immediate and decisive action. absolutely no one blinked an eye when white people got killed during the Floyd protests and we said the same thing back then because it's obvious we're fighting the same fight.
don't let liberals rewrite history. make them rue the dead.