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Terry Munson Mar 28, 2023

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 the shooters' nazi beliefs.

Joshua Mar 27, 2023

@chadloder The Not See ideology.

Ruth O’Day Mar 27, 2023

@chadloder
Yeah, on the Club Q shooters nonbinary claim…
Apparently the lawyer used he/him etc when filing papers soon after the shooter was accused.

So just enough misinformation to feed the Fox crowd.

Chad Loder Mar 28, 2023

@RuthODay To be intellectually honest, sometimes my lawyers have used he/him pronouns in filings when referring to me. I try to correct/fix when possible, but I don't always have a chance.

It's more telling IMHO that nobody in this shooter's life had ever heard them say they were nonbinary, if I recall correctly.

Ruth O’Day Mar 28, 2023

@chadloder
Fair point, the paperwork isn’t always 100% perfect.

But to buttress the claim, you’d think the lawyer in this case would want to correct the “error”.

Research for any evidence to support the enby claim came up dry, but apparently the suspect’s mother was enby.

Source: https://www.cpr.org/2023/02/22/club-q-shooting-suspect-preliminary-hearings-day-1/

Accused Club Q shooter appears in court for first day of preliminary hearings

The suspect is facing more than 320 charges including first-degree murder, attempted murder and bias-motivated crimes or hate crimes.

Colorado Public Radio

Kris Sargent, MD Mar 27, 2023

@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.

It Is INDEED Wednesday Mar 27, 2023

@kristofor @chadloder "NO I DIDN'T MEAN THE SECOND AMENDMENT LIKE THAT!!!" 😭😭😭

Chad Loder Mar 28, 2023

@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.

Kris Sargent, MD Mar 28, 2023

@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.

Lötek Mar 28, 2023

@kristofor @chadloder the us was never a rational democracy.

Hands Mar 27, 2023

@chadloder Columbine was also blamed on "bullying" despite the fact the shooters weren't bullied, they were bullies.

Rather than address the problem of violent white supremacy, politicians, the media and the gun lobby slandered a bunch of dead kids as bullies to protect their murderers.

Nemo Mar 28, 2023

I fear this shooting will be the American Kristallnacht. An excuse for Republicans to push state violence against trans people.

jade lol Mar 28, 2023

@chadloder the one that shot up club q never identified as nonbinary, that was a lie made up by his attorney so he could get a lighter sentence.

Audun Mar 28, 2023

@chadloder how many mass shooters are right wing extremists? Has anyone actually done the research? And should they rather be seen as terrorist attacks if the shooter is politically motivated?

Hellbent Mar 29, 2023

@audunmb @chadloder in 2022 all of them. https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022

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Lötek Mar 29, 2023

@chadloder a fear I had with the Tennessee shooting is taking hold.
Now Trans folks will be viewed with extra scrutiny when buying a gun.
This sucks