Man who used machete to murder Toronto massage parlour employee in 2020 pleaded guilty in July

  • quindraco@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What a miscarriage of justice. If they’re remotely right that this guy was a deeply misogynist incel lashing out, that precludes this being a genuine act of terrorism as defined under Canadian law. He’d have to have committed the murder “in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause”. Genuinely hating women and lashing out accordingly is the polar opposite of doing it for a cause. The prosecution is essebtially alleging that the defendant did this for personal reasons.

    Terrible ruling.

    • detalferous@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Disagree

      The ideological cause is misogyny

      It’s not personal: his victim did nothing to him: he hated her because she was a woman.

      Replace “woman” with “black” and it becomes even more obvious and KKK like.

    • Cagi@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Using incel rhetoric to justify a murder is absolutely political and ideological.