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

  • Striker
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    247 months ago

    This guy was 17! Imagine being so young and convincing yourself that it’ll never happen for you. Crazy.

    • @Wahots
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      27 months ago

      Oh, it will definitely happen to him, but probably in prison. :p

    • HubertManne
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      27 months ago

      geez by that age I was just happy just to not have spontaneous boners. I never expected to actually have sex in my teens. Heck, I didn’t even in college.

  • @quindraco@lemmy.world
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    -47 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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      97 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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      47 months ago

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