infinitesunriseLet me have a little schadenfreude, as a treat
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It was while he was being asked about gun violence that he was shot, the student says.
Unbelievable.
Specifically, he was about to try and spin a question about mass shootings into a dog whistle about “gang violence”.
mass shootings committed by trans people, specifically
The order of events as I’ve been seeing online:
Videos circulating on social media showed an attender at the student event on Wednesday asking Charlie Kirk: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”
In response, Kirk said: “Too many,” as the crowd clapped.
In a follow-up question, the attender asked: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
Kirk replied: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”
His last act on earth was cracking a joke about how only queers and poors are involved in gang violence, at which point he was shot.
Thanks for extra context. These people really don’t seem to care about others suffering. Also I don’t normally hear gang violence and mass shooters together. Gang violence is generally targeted and not focused on the most amount of bodies.
Regardless I’m getting tired of this all, and it’s likely only beginning.
SchmooIt’s a regularly used debate tactic of the right. He was going to imply that whatever number the student came up with for mass shootings was inflated because the criteria was too vague and erroneously counts gang violence. He would then have used this to simultaneously downplay the seriousness of mass shootings and suggest that trans people represent a larger proportion of mass shooters than they actually do. It was his way of discrediting the argument that the student was making; that trans people are actually underrepresented in the population of mass shooters. The reason for the student making this argument - if you don’t know - is that Charlie Kirk has blamed trans people for mass shootings in the past, jumping on the conservative bandwagon that always transvestigates mass shooters because they believe they are a trans conspiracy.
Thank you because I know a bit, but I don’t know enough about him and his shtick to understand the greater context. I’m also ot familiar enough with those dog whistles to catch them all out in the wild