from Katelyn Burns, one of my favorite journalists
her description of this piece:
For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good’s queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder.
I would contest that. Yes, it obviously was a factor for the jack-booted thugs that murdered her. But for everyone else she was an everyday American who was trying to comply with their orders to leave, and they murdered her anyway.
Her story didn’t end when she was killed, and it is very relevant that her queerness is being weaponized to rationalize and justify her killing by conservatives.
I think your “everyone else” is excluding about 1/3 of the country. Go on a conservative news site, and see if you can find one article about her that doesn’t mention her being lesbian, and understand that they do so because those sites are ‘smearing’ her to their homophobic readers, so they won’t empathize with her.
Go into a conservative space on any social media, and tell me how many are lamenting her death at all, rather than calling her a ‘professional agitator’ or saying she brought it on herself.