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Ken Hotate!

They killed Ken Hotate .... the fuck is going on with the US

This is so freaking sad ... I'm Indigenous in Canada and I loved seeing his character in Parks and Recreation.

I just browsed through this Facebook page and just this past February he proudly announced and showed pictures of marrying his gay partner.

Jonathan Joss was Two Spirited and he was just starting to project that in public ... it's so sad because now it makes me wonder what role all that identity played in his killing.

Fuck America ... you can be so beautiful and great while being so terrible and ugly at the same time.

More, horrifying context: https://bsky.app/profile/willharrisinva.bsky.social/post/3lqnh5lqoz223

Murdered. He was murdered by someone committing a hate crime. Get it right.

He voiced John Redcorn for those who don't want to click through to TMZ:

Joss was the voice of John Redcorn in "King of the Hill." He also landed a big part in "Parks and Recreation" as Chief Ken Hotate. And he had small roles in TV shows such as "Tulsa King," "Ray Donovan," and films like "True Grit" and "The Magnificent Seven."

Damn! Fucking America with every lunatic having access to guns.

RIP Jonathan Joss

Dang, and his house just caught fire too:

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/01/23/jonathan-joss-king-of-the-hills-john-redcorn-loses-house-dogs-in-fire-in-san-antonio/

Too many of the show’s VAs met an untimely end.

My buds and I met him at a local comic con. He told us he'd meet us out back and hang with us if we bought him a beer. So, we went and got beers and met up with him. Got selfies with him and a video of us all doing the "yep" thing with our beers. Super fun guy.

JFC. Damnit. Fuck Texas.

Edit: Jonathan's widower has provided a statement. He was murdered for being gay. Fuck. Texas.

This happened kind of close to where my partner and I live. The general sentiment from a lot of people in the area has been getting worse and worse. I know some folks have always felt that way, but it’s so brazen now. We’re always scared when we have to leave the house. There’s been violence.

King of the Hill is one of our favorite shows, it’s all hitting us pretty hard. Both that someone we admired the work of was killed in such a horrible way, and that it happened so close to home.

Another article for those having issues with the TMZ site:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/jonathan-joss-fatally-shot-1.7550346

I was looking at the Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

On January 23, 2025, Joss lost his San Antonio home, as well as three dogs (with a fourth missing) when his house caught fire.[8][9] Joss says he was using a propane heater and had left the house. “Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,” Joss said. “Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?” [8] He attended the 2025 ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas with other King of the Hill cast members on May 29, 2025.[7] However, he says he was not invited to the panel, and an attendee on the social media site Reddit says that Joss interrupted the King of the Hill panel, bringing up his house burning down which he felt was intentionally burned down because of his homosexuality.

On June 1, 2025, Joss was approached by a neighbor who allegedly yelled homophobic slurs at Joss before shooting and killing him. The suspect was arrested shortly afterward.[7][10][11][12] The two neighbors have been subject to a longstanding feud going back years with police being called multiple times.[13] His death occurred just hours after he uploaded an Instagram video of himself walking around Austin and noting how he already recorded lines for 4 King of the Hill episodes.

Kern de Gonzales stated on Instagram afterwards that various people in the area had for years verbally assaulted them with homophobic slurs and threats to burn down their home.[14] Kern de Gonzales went on to say that the house had burned down after years of threats from their neighbors, threats to which the police had not responded, even after the threats had been reported by Gonzales and Joss.[11] On Joss' Facebook page, Kern de Gonzales described the attack as a homophobic hate crime.

San Antonio Police Department released a statement saying "Our investigation has found no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the Mr. Joss's murder was related to his sexual orientation."

As if I needed another reason to never set foot in Texas, fuck man

RIP John Redcorn

Fuck owning guns and fuck owning guns for personal protection.

Handguns are the dumbest fucking thing in the world for society to allow. Lets make killing someone as easy as pressing a button at a distance! That's gotta a be a good necessary thing for anyone to do on a whim.

I thought I just read about King of the Hill. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/37633255

Sometimes I wonder if the so called the 'arc of the moral universe' could turn out like Fukuyama's concept of The End of History. Maybe we are the barbarian back water planet.