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‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal

Posted on | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal

Six years ago (“The Media’s ‘Climate of Hate’ Myth,” American Spectator, Jan. 18, 2019), I examined the political forces behind allegations of an “epidemic” of violence against transgender people. The mainstream media were complicit in a propaganda campaign to convince the public that right-wing “hate” was responsible for this phenomenon. The propaganda campaign involved a running total of how many transgender people had been “murdered” during the current calender year, so that a news report about a recent death could include the fact that the victim was 14th (or 27th or whatever) such person killed in the U.S. that year.

Of course, the activists compiling those lists of transgender victims were not scrupulous about who got included in their totals — they wanted a big number to promote the EPIDEMIC OF HATE narrative, and relied upon the gullibility of journalists not to examine the details of these deaths on a case-by-case basis. Any reasonably curious person could do some basic research and realize that the “epidemic” narrative was bogus. The number of transgender victims whose deaths could be clearly attributed to “transphobia” was so close to zero as to be statistically neglible, a drop in the bucket in a nation where there are about 20,000 homicides a year. Let us stipulate that a drag queen who gets shot during an argument outside a bar at 3 a.m. may, in some vague way, be a victim of “transphobia,” but does it make sense to depict such an incident as evidence of a “Climate of Hate”? And yet this was the substance of the alleged “epidemic” of anti-transgender violence that the media kept hyping up during Donald Trump’s first term. Anyway . . .

As noted in an update on my most recent post about the “Zizian” radical vegan transgender death cult, there is now a Kiwi Farms thread about the Zizian cult, which includes a screenshot from the Instagram account of Robyne Plaga, mother of Amir “Emma” Borhanian:

Borhanian’s mother described him/“her” as being an “advocate for justice, animal and human rights activist” who “passed away Sunday, November 13, 2022, in Vallejo, California,” a description that omits some rather crucial details. Borhanian was shot by Curtis Lind, who fired his pistol in self-defense after being nearly murdered in an attack in which he was “impaled with a sword and blinded in one eye.” Borhanian and her fellow Zizian cultists had been staying on Lind’s property, but stopped paying rent during the COVID-19 lockdown, when there was a moratorium on evictions. After the pandemic ended and the moratorium was lifted, Lind wanted the Zizians to pay the rent they owed him. The Zizians refused to pay, and Lind was planning to have the sheriff evict them, so they concocted a scheme to murder him, a plot that included plans to dismember his corpse and dissolve it in vats of acid.

As noted on the Kiwi Farms thread, Borhanian also got mentioned in a #SayTheirNames tribute by the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus on “Transgender Day of Remembrance” in 2023. Why would a bunch of legislators in Texas be paying tribute to someone from North Carolina who died while committing a crime in California? I can’t explain this, and I’ll bet the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus can’t explain it either. Probably some junior legislative staffer had a connection to Borhanian via social media, so that name just got thrown on the list.

Borhanian also got listed in this “Remembering Our Dead” tribute page, as having been “one of two people shot during a property dispute,” which is rather euphemistic, all things considered. My point is that once any category of people are deemed Official Victims of Oppression, then everything about them gets filtered through the warped lenses of this victimhod narrative. Even when a transgender person gets killed while engaged in attempted murder, this does not diminish their status as an Official Victim of Oppression, which entitles them to obituary praise.



 

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