{"id":86545,"date":"2023-11-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86545"},"modified":"2023-11-27T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:58:24","slug":"86545","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86545","title":{"rendered":"What If Someone Threw A &#8220;Genocide&#8221;, And No Entire Groups Were Murdered?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In addition to football, we saw last week the annual &#8220;progressive&#8221; tradition of wrapping one&#8217;s self and others in un-earned victimhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was &#8220;Trans Violence Awareness Week&#8221;, during which Leftis pols conjured up victims from the ether to rally the soft-minded to their cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Smith, for starters (with a riposte from Shawh Holster)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She is describing a fiction. Show me a single kid murdered because they were trans. Of the 26 reported incidents, none were children. This is a fiction intended to evoke sympathy. Storytelling. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gHLOKZExg1\">pic.twitter.com\/gHLOKZExg1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shawn Holster (@ShawnHolster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnHolster\/status\/1726947873152229481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Human Rights Coalition says it, it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2023\/11\/there-is-no-trans-genocide\/\">s worth fact-checking<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The only catch is that no such systemic violence exists. According to Jean-Pierre herself \u2014 and, presumably, to an LGBT-rights group with every interest in magnifying the phenomenon \u2014 the total number of trans-identified Americans known to have been killed in 2023 is 26. If we round that up to 30 (to account for December) and assume that just 1 percent of the U.S. population is trans (given that, as one very limited survey shows, around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/02\/05\/more-u-s-teens-identify-transgender-survey-finds\/306357002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of young Americans are), we obtain an annual transgender-murder rate of 30 in 3.32 million, or just 0.9 people per 100,000 people. Even if we, alternatively, assume an American trans population of just 1.6 million \u2014 to gel with one high-quality but conservative recen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/new-study-estimates-16-million-us-identify-transgender-2022-06-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">t estimate<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 the resulting murder rate would be merely 1.9 per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put that in context, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wil_da_beast630\/status\/1651784052477665280\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murder rate for blacks<\/a>&nbsp;in the U.S. is currently 30\u201333 per 100,000 people. The African-American community is an outlier but not necessarily a remarkable one: In a representative&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/minorityhealth\/lcod\/men\/2018\/byrace-hispanic\/index.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent year<\/a>, 4.5 percent of black-male deaths were the results of homicide, versus 2.3 percent for American Indians, 2.2 percent for Hispanics, 2 percent for Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders . . . and 4.9 percent for all whites under full majority. To say the obvious, all of these groups are currently living far more dangerously than \u201ctrans women.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Holster ran down the HRC&#8217;s numbers in this twitter thread:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like we are looking at 26 individuals. Nationally. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pma8oDFkjh\">pic.twitter.com\/pma8oDFkjh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shawn Holster (@ShawnHolster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnHolster\/status\/1726937861252161659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Long story short &#8211; like iron ore, Big Left wants to take the raw material of intra-relationship and street violence, and try to refine it into yet another social grievance to keep the ignorant and uncritical in a hot lather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to football, we saw last week the annual &#8220;progressive&#8221; tradition of wrapping one&#8217;s self and others in un-earned victimhood. It was &#8220;Trans Violence Awareness Week&#8221;, during which Leftis pols conjured up victims from the ether to rally the soft-minded to their cause. Senator Smith, for starters (with a riposte from Shawh Holster) If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,24,18,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-culture-war","category-pc","category-whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86549,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86545\/revisions\/86549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}