Man severely beaten in homophobic attack for wearing rainbow watch strap
Man severely beaten in homophobic attack for wearing rainbow watch strap
Posted by corbynista2029
Man severely beaten in homophobic attack for wearing rainbow watch strap
Man severely beaten in homophobic attack for wearing rainbow watch strap
Posted by corbynista2029
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Britain really has become a shit hole following Trumps lead when it comes to homophobia and transphobia.
It’s beyond tragic how backward looking the UK has become now
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God that eye looks insanely painful 😓
But, another misleading headline, it says in the article they believed they were attacked due to the watch strap although don’t know for sure, as it was also dark. Maybe they were just after the Apple Watch itself as it’s a known Apple Watch strap.
Either way some nutcase is at large who is willing to attack people without provocation!!!
That’s a disgrace, no-one should be targeted like that.
All those people supporting the rise of the right wing, need to take a look in the mirror, you aren’t as perfect as you think you are.
The right: “why is pride needed”
Click on the link and look at the picture
Not to take away the seriousness of the attack, but the qoute ‘if my injuries had been worse they would have been life threatening’ made me chuckle a little. Like yeah no shit if things had been worse they would have been worse.
Maybe the thug wanted to the only gay in the village. He’s obviously not very comfy in his sexuality if he’s attacking randoms for wearing rainbows.
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The usual crowd yelling about clickbait/misleading headlines mysteriously love this one when it fits their preconceived biases
>The unemployed Barry local
Why was his employment status relevant?
Very clickbaity title. The cause of the attack isnt known
Quote from the article
*”Kaspian believes that the LGBTQ+ Pride Apple Watch strap he was wearing may be why he was attacked. But given it was dark, he remains unsure.”*
If you read the article then it is pure speculation that’s the attack had anything to do with his rainbow wristband.
This is irresponsible reporting.
Fucking savages are out there. Be careful out there.
Makes me wonder if there’s hope for humanity, I’m losing faith.
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Oh my god the photo in the article is fucking awful, I really wasn’t expecting that when I clicked the link. The people who did this deserve to be locked up for a very long time.
This is bollocks. Guy gets beaten, no idea why, claims it to be because of a watch strap. This guy just encountered a psycho. There really isn’t the level of depth to this the media want to portray.
>Kaspian Oaken, 39, was listening to music while walking down a residential road in Barry when a man in a grey hooded tracksuit approached him.
Without warning, the man began repeatedly punching Kaspian at about 6pm on February 1.
So no conversation about the watch
>Kaspian believes that the LGBTQ+ Pride Apple Watch strap he was wearing may be why he was attacked. But given it was dark, he remains unsure.
Not taking away from the fact it’s a terrible attack but there’s nothing there to suggest it was a homophobic attack other than the victim trying to make sense of it.
Could equally have been race based.
The person said nothing to him and he was wearing a rainbow watch strap at night time so it COULD have been homophobia?
hahaha come on now.
*”I was beaten up for wearing a rainbow watch strap”* sounds a lot better than, *”I was a dick’ead to the wrong person and found out..”*
Nobody is getting beaten up over a watch strap. I don’t care what anyone says.
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The title is quite a stretch though.
**Man severely beaten in homophobic attack for wearing rainbow watch strap**
But in the article, the victim can’t recall the assailant saying anything homophobic. It’s understandable that the victim wanted to find some reason as to why it happened to him, but all he can think of is that the watch he was wearing was rainbow-coloured.
_But given it was dark, he remains unsure._
More likely a random attack by a sociopath high on something.
Either way, his injuries are shocking.
I’m happily married, with three wonderful kids. I have a pair of gay pride flip flops which I secretly bought hoping someone would start shit with me. That would be an incredibly uncomfortable minute of their lives. Shithouse bullies
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What happened to him is an absolute disgrace and whomever is responsible should be punished. That being said, having been a victim of a hate crime myself (got punched for holding hands with my boyfriend) I don’t like the headline. The victim believes that’s why he was attacked but isn’t sure himself, so we don’t know at this stage if it was a homophobic attack. The reason this is a problem is that hate crimes are a serious issue but we run the risk of playing into the hands of the “hate crimes” don’t exist or don’t matter crowd by immediately calling something a hate crime just because the victim is LGBT. We’ve seen it with other type of hate crimes, especially when it comes to religion or race and it gets to the point that people just don’t care when a legitimate crime happens.
This country is going backwards in so many scary ways.
How do we know it was the watch strap? Did they say “Fuck your watch strap!!!!!” as they attacked him?
The headline:
>Man severely beaten in homophobic attack for wearing rainbow watch strap
The reality:
>Kaspian believes that the LGBTQ+ Pride Apple Watch strap he was wearing may be why he was attacked. But given it was dark, he remains unsure.
Metro are a bunch of wankers for that title. It’s only going to stoke this false sense of division. Hate crimes do happen why are they lying about them to create more? There’s a thirst for hate.
Who cares if it was right wing or not. It was a heinous act and shouldn’t be happening in the UK.
The victim himself, doesn’t know if it was homophobic or not.
It’s horrific and terrible that a person was attacked. Gay or Not.
But reading the article it doesn’t suggest that there is any evidence it was to do with the victims sexuality.
Just a random oxygen thief attacking a random dude walking home.
Makes no sense. The rainbow represents the full breadth of sexuality. Who are these morons?
The right scrambling in here to distance themselves…
You people caused this.