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Hoaxchel: i don't have the details of every single person in a state of 20million…

fallacy: jesus amero isn't out of a population of 20 million in your state, jesus amero is in a population of the illegal aliens in your state that is separate from the 20 million, unless you include them in your state count…, Gooberner. do you count illegals in your 20 million new yorkers, Hoaxel?

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https://reason.com › 2023 › 10 › 12 › matthew-shepards-murder-was-almost-certainly-not-an-anti-gay-hate-crime

Matthew Shepard's Murder Was Almost Certainly Not a Hate Crime

Oct 12, 2023 … Matthew Shepard's Murder Was Almost Certainly Not an Anti-Gay Hate Crime · President Biden commemorated the 25th

In the fall of 1998, a man named Matthew Shepard was savagely beaten, strung out on a fence like a scarecrow, and left to die as the Wyoming night temperatures plunged. Over the last two and a half decades, the killing has been called many things. But a BBC headline from 2018 perhaps captures best: It was "the murder that changed America."

A statement from President Joe Biden helps explain why. "Twenty-five years ago today, Matthew Shepard lost his life to a brutal act of hate and violence that shocked our nation and the world," he said this morning. "The week prior, Matthew had been viciously attacked in a horrific anti-gay hate crime and left to die – simply for being himself."

Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. But the latter part of Biden's statement—that his murder was spurred by homophobic animus—is the most important. For years, it has been repeated in some of the largest media outlets. It has driven federal policy. It is the part that "changed America," despite all evidence pointing to the fact that it isn't true.

https://www.advocate.com/crime/russell-henderson-commutation-petition-denied

Jimenez found that Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He also took significant sexual risks and was being pimped alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his killers, with whom he’d had occasional sexual encounters. He was HIV positive at the time of his death.

“This does not make the perfect poster boy for the gay-rights movement,” says Jimenez. “Which is a big part of the reason my book has been so trashed.”

Matthew’s drug abuse, and the fact that he knew one of his killers prior to the attack, was never explored in court. Neither was the rumour that the killers knew that he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000 which they wanted to steal.

https://reason.com/2023/10/12/matthew-shepards-murder-was-almost-certainly-not-an-anti-gay-hate-crime/

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