Store Owner Is Fatally Shot by Man Who Confronted Her About Pride Flag
New York TimesAPR 2023
An innocent woman has been killed as a result of inflammatory right-wing scaremongering over sexual and gender "culture war" issues. The right's attacks on the LGBTQ+ community have created intense fear, where threats of violence against them loom larger than ever before. The repercussions of this rhetoric go beyond trying to get votes — it gets people killed.
This is a tragic case, the circumstances of which we do not fully know, especially with regard to the mental state of the accused. The LGBTQ+ community has unfortunately been hijacked by a radical fringe that is out-of-step with the public's views, risking adding fuel to the fire and causing more harm to the LGBTQ+ community. Carleton should be mourned without being used to fuel divisive, woke rhetoric.