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RantSo there's a prominent "vigil for Nex" in my city tomorrow.
There are lots of vigils being held all over Southern Ontario (Canada) where I live. Many people are travelling around to attended multiple ones, including several women and kids ("trans" kids and their moms) who I have been close with and thought I knew to be thoughtful and intelligent people. I'm sad about it because it feels as if these people are reveling in a girl's death. Of course, they're acting very sad, but it really seems like they're excited to have any opportunity to be "outraged" and performative in their activism, no matter how manufactured that opportunity is.
As we know (it's not only us right?), this girl was almost certainly not the victim of a hate crime. As far as I've heard, we don't even know her cause of death yet. I hope that the people going to these vigils don't know all of the available details. If they do, they're knowingly weaponizing a child's death to further their messed-up agenda. They're allowing their "trans" children to feel like they're on the verge of being murdered, and that everybody hates them.
Unfortunately, the kind of thing that happened to Dagny is not that uncommon. I live in a medium-sized city. Over the last year or so, we have had a few local children die at the hands of other kids: a girl got shot at a bush party, a boy got stabbed after a high school basketball game, a freshman in university got beaten to death because he was at the wrong intersection. I could argue that all of these crimes are "worse" than whatever happened to Dagny, considering that she seemed quite fine afterwards, but regardless - a kid is dead. The point is that there were no vigils held for any of these local kids. I don't remember their names (did I ever even know them?), and neither do any of the people going to these vigils. Is it sad that this girl died? Incredibly. But the vast majority of us never should have even heard about it. I'm just so angry that our society is currently allowing stupidity and deceit to rule.