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Friday, April 7, 2006

Jason Travers

Posted by on April 7 at 16:08 PM

The family and friends of Jason Travers, one of the victims of the March 25 shooting on Capitol Hill, invited Stranger news reporter Thomas Francis to Jason’s memorial service. Jason’s ashes were scattered on a beach in West Seattle.

You can read about the service, and learn a little more about Jason, by clicking here.


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AIDs Dead = Thinning the Herd

Capitol Hill Hippies Dead = Thinning the Heard


Memorial Services, Memorial Quilts, and religion is for morons remember. It's racist and homophobic to act like when privileged white hippies die everyone should be all hysterical, but when minorities are shot in Tacoma, or Gays die of AIDs it doesn't matter.


The Stranger printed stories how AIDs = Thinning the Herd. Why not treat straight white hippies the same as you treated minorities and gays?


Unless your point is the lives of rich white hippies on Capitol hill matter more than the lives of the poor, of minorities, or of gay men struggling with AIDs?


And which newspaper is milking the murder story now? At least the "mainstream" papers aren't using these murders to boost their image as a "caring community institution".


Where is it written that a newspaper is supposed to be community therapist?


It's insulting to readers to play the "we're covering this story with tender care for people's emotions" angle. What a cynical and disgusting way to attempt to boost a publication's popularity.


Thoughtful readers will pay a therapist if they want tender care of their emotions. Reading a paper is meant to engage our brains.


Your published comments about AIDS thinning the herd were shocking and stimulating. Most of your readership does not know or care about a few dead hippies. Get a grip and stop acting the community therapist on the Capitol Hill murder story.


There's a lot of humor in the whole situation of a Montana Fiberglass Moose shooter on the loose, possibilities to write about it in a way that shocks and stimulates grey matter.


This mushy memorial service, friends say he was the nicest guy ever, tasteful cover illustration, emotional closure for the neighborhood bullshit is dull.


A lot of poor people are shot every day and no one gives a shit about the emotions of their friends and families. Why should the rest of the world care more about a few dead rich Capitol hill hippies?

So step out of your therapy neighborhood, suck it up and face up to what's happening in the world. Treat the dead hippies the same as you treat everyone else.

I beg to differ. I was just thinking today, two weeks after the awful incident, that The Stranger bridged a gap between reporting and community outreach. That's not a bad thing. Yes, people die of horrible diseases or are otherwise shot in scattered incidents, but to claim that a mass slaying (a massacre) is the same is nonsense. Sheer nonsense.

Also to claim that Jason was "rich" is a stretch. He was unemployed when I met him and struggling like all the rest of us to get by. He had his own problems like all the rest of humanity. So have a heart, already, and stop trying to politicize another great story from The Stranger around this tragedy.

A Denizon of Capitol Hill

Trish, there's no point in reasoning with it. It thinks murder is a good thing. Ignore it and it will go away. Better yet, block its IP number. It's really no different than spam.

Don't feed the trolls.

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