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Shopkeeper who displayed rainbow Pride flag at store shot dead (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Laura Ann Carleton, a 66-year-old shopkeeper who owned a clothing store in Cedar Glen, California, was shot and killed after confronting a man who pulled down the rainbow Pride flag displayed outside her store. Carleton reportedly made disparaging remarks before opening fire with a handgun. He fled but was later shot dead by police. Carleton was regarded as an ally of the local LGBTQ+ community, even though she did not identify as such herself. Her death has sparked tributes from friends and activists who note rising incidents of violence and harassment targeting the LGBTQ+ community across the U.S. in recent months. Notably, over 350 such attacks have occurred from June 2022 to April 2023 alone according to recent reports.

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 27 points 1 year ago

Huh? Conservatives have made up tons of excuses to target the groups they've chosen as scapegoats. They say LGBT+ people are sexual predators, they're grooming children, they're "shoving it down our throats", etc.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Which is a very carefully orchestrated bit of propaganda.

Child sexual predators are one of the few groups of people you can openly advocate violence against.

They'd love to openly call for the murder of minorities and "leftists", but they need the plausible deniability.

So instead, they label undesirables as child sexual predators.

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