Hate Crime

As a teacher who's LGBT+ and an advocate for PROPER 2nd amendment rights, this is appalling on both fronts.

This matters to me because of the violence not matter income privilege or race LGBTQ + and the violence towards us is not tried as hate crimes . This is not nor will never be okay . As a elder to many lights have been diminished without justice

I am ashamed to be the daughter of a retired SAPD cop. First, they suck at dealing with mental health cases and now attempting to sweep this hate crime under the rug. Justice for John Redcorn!

Joss wasn’t just a voice actor—he was a symbol. A Native American actor who brought dignity, humor, and humanity to a character that could have easily been a stereotype. He turned John Redcorn into a quiet icon of cultural resilience, layered masculinity, and emotional depth. He was one of the few Indigenous actors working regularly in Hollywood. One of the few whose work reached across generations, homes, and political divides. And now he’s gone. Taken by the same virulent hatred that for centuries has attempted to erase queer people, Indigenous people, anyone who exists outside the narrow, suffocating vision of white Christian Nationalist America.

We have been pushed to dehumanize each other by the capitalists. We have been driven to brutalize one another, and the capitalists have had no problem weaponizing right-wing rhetoric to fuel this violence. The fact that the state of Texas has no intent on treating this like the hate crime that it is only adds insult to injury. Truly disgusting.

Make no mistake: an attack on any member of the King of the Hill cast is an attack on the real America—an attack on American culture that rejects the brutalization of the other, it is an attack on the best of us, on those moments of family gathering, of peace, of humanity. This attack on Jonathan is further proof of how this reactionary, regressive regime divides and brutalizes the best of us.

Houdini Magazine wishes a peaceful time of mourning for Tristan, Jonathan's husband. Furthermore, we condemn all who advocate for hate. If a new future is to be built, there can be no tolerance for intolerance.

Rest in power, Jonathan Joss.

Ignoring the clear bigotry and hate involved in this tragedy sets a precedent that would deny justice not only for Jonathan, but for any other victims of hate that may come in the future. This is not only a demand for one man’s dignity, but a demand of dignity for us all.

Our first amendment talks about freedom of religion yet they want to force their Christian values on people who have different religions. This country wasn’t built on Christianity, there’s a reason why the fathers of the constitution wanted church separate from state. So why in force it on others? Prayer is for at home and church, not schools.

I don't want my future kids to be in this state if this man keeps on trying to put religion into our schools and discriminating children for being in the LGBTQ community!

Born and raised in Oklahoma and I’ve never seen this blatant overreach of power as I do with Ryan Walters-which is saying a lot given our sordid history of politicians in the past. His policies have nothing to do with education and more to do with half formed, misguided notions of how lack of religion is somehow the sole reason our state is 49th in education. He set his entire policy in place with false equivalency and straw-man arguments- putting real at-risk students in danger as well as prioritizing religion based learning over actual academics. He accomplished this by scaring religious conservatives into believing their own children were being persecuted in school. Which is NOT the case. He pushes religious education for one religion only while still insisting on merging church and state. He wants to dismantle programs that help the most in need and at risk students for what seems to be no other reason but bigotry. He poses a real threat to students and their families with his policies and needs to be removed from office immediately.

Please help support my husband and family. I’m not one to start waves, but something needs to be done. What happened isn’t right and my family, especially my husband, is paying the price for others wrong-doings.