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Illinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald's

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2mo ago

Illinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald's

www.cbsnews.com /chicago/news/kane-county-prosecutors-hate-crime-investigation-mcdonalds-attack-carpentersville/

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Holy shit, let people pee. What in the world is wrong with us?
- Some people think they can give a beating without receiving one in return.
This 100% fits the definition of a hate crime. Someone's appearance does not tell you anything about their genitals, which is why this bathroom nonsense could never play out in reality. Her appearance may be more "masculine," but she is female and identifies as a woman. I have a strong suspicion that the reaction of these degenerates would have been the same or worse had she used the men's restroom. They desired to hurt lgbtq+ people, and no bathroom decision would have changed their actions other than to make it worse.
- They knew she was a girl, they attacked her not because of accusing her of being trans, but just because she is lesbian
  
  That is what I was implying, without being explicit on the outcomes had she been in a men's restroom.
They could've linked the crowdfund campaign to cover her medical costs, although looks like it has been covered and then some.
- the crowdfund campaign to cover her medical costs
  Has to be one of the most depressingly dystopic (true) sentences I've read.
  Like yeah, it's called "taxes"
  
  I know, it always depresses me when I see that. Even though my country could be better on a lot of things, at least I don't have to worry about medical debt.
- The link is 403 erroring for me and seems to be because of CloudFront? Odd.
  
  Huh, I connected just fine (and still do) from Denmark. But there was a cloudflare link I clicked on yesterday that refused my IP which was odd. Maybe they're testing out some aggressive anti-AI crawler stuff and sometimes get it wrong?

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