Really not digging this thing where every time there's a mass shooting of some sort, the worst people on the internet rush to baselessly claim that the shooter was trans.
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Not only that, but the rush to ID the shooter and post everything they’ve ever said on social media as soon as possible. Can we not wait for the full picture to unveil?
I went to that school, we went on a field trip to protest against Planned Parenthood. The likelihood that they were an out trans person is very, very low. Like, I didn’t even know what a trans person was. Gay people might as well have been magical beings.
You were very sheltered. I didn’t even know why I was there at PP. I just was there saying whatever they wanted me to say. Like, a prop. I got an A for seeing an angel in the classroom once in their grade.
I'm convinced she was on KF, the same site that defiantly hosted the video of the New Zealand killer. Intersection of racism, TERFism, and anger. Though Twitter is quite possible all on its own.
Which will shift the narrative to "feminists are evil and dangerous," whilst still somehow not absolving trans people.
But like, no straight white dudes ever shot anyone, amirite.
I'm angry about this too. But I'm also appreciative to you for having this needed conversation in a way that doesn't potentially endanger children in crisis or exacerbate the pain of a community suffering tremendous loss.
Right. And there are so many mass shootings that if even one turns out to be trans, they'll use it to claim even more of them were and it will appear to be an epidemic of trans-specific psychotic behavior.
Yes, because people hear the lie and don’t hear the follow-up, so a lot of people are floating around with the vague impression that most mass shooters are trans because it’s what they always hear.
Aside from hoping it’s not them this time, the implicit argument is “well we treat trans people like shit so it would make sense if some of them snap.”
A lot of them are old-school machismo (also a favourite of the Third Reich) so they tend to think their torturing of trans people isn't "real" suffering and anyone that caves to it in any discernible way was just "weak".
they tend to focus more on how they were killed (i.e. the camps) rather than the propaganda that led to the killing, even though the latter is much more important to answer “How can we prevent this from happening again?”
Anyway, I'm really fucking sick of this shit. Every goddamn time there's some atrocity, absolute ghouls are like, "How can we use this to demonize trans people???" when trans people don't have fuckall to do with it.
“Mass shootings are a mental health issue,” “being trans is a mental health issue,” therefore, “mass shooters are trans.” It makes perfect sense if you’re an asshole who is willing to make shit up to demonize people.
Top Bosses at some jobs already are phasing out LGBTQIA+ people it seems, especially at Public Events, I guess it proves Trump is getting what he wants at this point and this early on, proves well Extermination of LGBTQIA+ people is first before #Neurodivergent people will be targeted next.
I’m sorry you have to deal with this. There is an absolute hysteria in this country about citizens’ sexual orientation that should be no one’s business. Trump and by extension the GOP, have truly poisoned this country.
Yea, when someone that is trans does something disgusting or wrong: "All trans people are like this! They are evil, and we must protect ourselves!"
Every time a church does something disgusting or wrong: "They stumbled, this was only a small mistake!"
This is EXACTLY what is happening, and I am so freaking livid right now! Twitter is a cesspool of evil disinformation that is set out to hurt innocent populations of fellow citizens. It's bad enough it succeeded in electing that monster, but this pisses me off on a whole different level...
Like that logic is so stupid
"Oh my God the poor children. Wait, the shooter was trans? Forget about the children, we gotta discriminate every trans person now!"
Like their morals go bye hye tf
What???? I just turned tv off as since nothing will be done in our lifetimes vis a vis guns in America, so why waste a minute of my life watching the media replay the same fing tropes
Ya know what? I'm skipping this one and the next few. CEO killings too. We apparently WANT this. It's what we vote for anyway. Have at it. I'm not watching the news but you don't really have to. I'm not missing a thing. Emotions: OFF.
I get that hearing time and time again about needless death caused by a systemic cycle of violence can be mind numbingly painful, but that doesn't mean you turn off your emotions. This is how they win, apathy is a tool, and it's not one of ours. Your anger is a gift, use it well. Join your local DSA
If I'm not DONE being active I'm taking a good long break. I've thrown myself in it since the first Women's March and after so many Democrats just didn't bother to vote this time I'm done for a good long while. I have also been betrayed: wrote tons of postcards only to get Sinema & Fetterman
This is the closest to my feeling right now. I read the article yesterday that people voted for Trump, even though they know he’ll be a shit show most of the time, because his “style” is more likely to get things done. The flip of that Trump belief is that Kamala—a woman—can’t get anything done.
Because I spend much of my workday disconnected these accusations are usually the first way I learn a shooting has happened. Seeing these accusations have become as/more reliable than seeing news reports of the shootings themselves.
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“Look-look! This one trans person jaywalked that one time! NONE OF THEM ARE TO BE TRUSTED!”
But we could all be saints and they’d still find ways to tear us down.
But like, no straight white dudes ever shot anyone, amirite.
See: Snowflake, triggered, etc.
Transgender has more to do with one’s gender identity not matching the sex they were assigned
Every time a church does something disgusting or wrong: "They stumbled, this was only a small mistake!"
Double standards all around.
Beyond just baseline trans panic BS, of course.
"The shooter was trans"
"That's not true"
"But I saw it on Twitter!"
"Oh my God the poor children. Wait, the shooter was trans? Forget about the children, we gotta discriminate every trans person now!"
Like their morals go bye hye tf
One thing one day, the opposite the other