When a nazi who claimed to identify as nonbinary shot up Club Q, the right wing disinfosphere obsessed over the shooter's gender identity and ignored the fact that the shooter is a nazi who posted homage to Breivik. They became the "nonbinary mass shooter".
When a right-wing extremist who happened to be a furry was apparently inspired by Andy Ngo to carry out a mass shooting of protestors, the right-wing dubbed him the "furry mass shooter".
When nazis who happened to listen to heavy metal and dressed differently carried out the Columbine mass shooting, the media dubbed them "the trenchoat mafia" and obsessed over heavy metal, they bever never mentioned their nazi beliefs.
@chadloder This (Nashville) school shooter is, of course, being reported as a trans man.
The last time the NRA was a huge supporter of gun restrictions (the turn of the 20th century), it was because black people were starting to be armed and fighting back, and the NRA good ol' white boys didn't want that.
Maybe the spin this time is that the trans folks are starting to fight back. It's basically inevitable that they would. It's a shitty way to get the GOP bigots to care about gun restrictions, but maybe we'll just take the win if we can get it.
@kristofor I know you didn't mean it this way, but anyone who murders children is not "fighting back" — they're a piece of shit.
@chadloder True. I suspect that generalizes to basically all murder (with some very rare exceptions).
Would I prefer he shot some neo-Nazis protesting at a library having drag artists read books? Probably?
But most of all I'd to think the USA could go back to being a rational democracy where actual reasoned debates based in Reality might be possible.
@kristofor @chadloder the us was never a rational democracy.