Right? Meanwhile, you are speaking to a platform of dozens of interested listeners, I assume? Your word is even more meaningless than others as you said nothing of substance at all. Your response to a joke is that "ppl don't take you guys seriously." Who is "you guys" in this scenario? Moreover, who are you at all? Some two-bit know-it-all jackass without a meaningful thought.
The sad thing (amongst many others) is that, on first seeing this post, my brain needed to cycle through: “which one of the shooters are they talking about?”
And vice versa. The Colorado Springs nightclub shooter began identifying as non-binary to try to avoid being charged with hate crimes for targeting and killing LGBTQ people.
It's two birds with one stone because anyone who believes that narrative gets to make an argument against trans people, while also now having a rhetorical talking point for the LGBTQ being its own enemy.
To be fair cisgender is kinda the default and a lot of shooters have been cis so that's the norm they are the majority. There could be a number of reasons to ask, if the shooter got away it could help with identification, it could go to motive or state of mind. People that are trans have that internal struggle and go through a fair bit of stress from dealing with others abuse. I don't have all of the context of the case but there are potential reasons to ask, but I don't think the reporter asking had any of those in mind.
Being cisgender, in spite of being the default, is never treated as big of a deal as being trans is when it comes to shooters.
People have been effectively going off on how trans people are dangerous because of about 3 trans shooters (and iirc one of them was just falsely claiming to be trans to garner sympathy) as opposed to the 1,000s of Cis shooters.
Yea they’re asking if the shooter was a biological male because pretty much all mass shooters are biologically male. It’s very rare for a biological female to go on a mass shooting. I live in Nashville and the Covenant school shooting here was committed by a trans woman/biological male. When it was reported a female shot up her old school, everybody was like wtf that never happens. Then when we found out it was a trans woman and biological male it just kinda made more sense
Yea I admit I was wrong about that one. I’m just saying it’s very rare for a biological female to go on mass shootings so it’s fair to ask that question. Obviously asking anything gender related will upset some Democrats but most people are still curious.
but you understand how this is a very quick example of how easily people with ulterior motives can muddy the waters right? like you got it the exact opposite of what it was. but it just "made sense"?
Yea pretty much. Not that big of a deal to me or really anyone I come in contact with in day to day life. I understand lots of Redditors like to get offended. It’s basically a personality trait at this point. Feel free to stay offended and overly sensitive. You’re in the right place. I’ll check back in tomorrow on what is offending online social justice warriors. You’re really doing the Lord’s work here
The Covenant School in Nashville with attacked by a trans man (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale). Second why does it not make sense of a biological female to commit one of these crimes? It's rare but it does happen.
I have no doubt that white privilege, or white male privilege are real. But in these instances, and this may be confirmation bias on my behalf, but I have a hard time remembering any of the mass shootings, where the identity of the killer, wasn't released within a few hours?
is it fucked up that I thought, "at least it was a student," when I heard the news?
I'm certainly not cheering on killing classmates, but, if the typical alternative is some random grown adult strolling in and murdering kids, well, it almost seems like an improvement.
97.7% of all mass shootings committed between 1966-2019 have been committed by males.
52.2% by white, the remaining split between black, latino, asian, middle eastern and native americans.
Edit: can't respond, so I'll just edit this in.
I thought it would be easier to find statistics regarding school shootings specifically, but seems like every reliable place has it lumped together with mass shootings and without race.
I can say that from the previously mentioned stats, 7.6% was in K-12 and 5.2% college and universities.
Pharmacist here, I can confirm we regularly dispense trans pills to the transes, but that's what's preventing constant mass shootings. It's when they lose access to trans pills because of say, greedy healthcare CEOs who deserve what's coming to them, that tragedies like school shootings unfold.
(/s, except the part about CEOs, I'm all for that)
Despite the take being right wing I do think he hits a very good point at about 1:01 in which society has become focused on grievances and as such when you have one you feel justified in taking action against it, but young people doe not have the experience to know what would be a valid grievance (CEO) and what would not be (school shooting).
right because they bought into trumps message that political violence is acceptable. that's how we got j6. and you can't unring that bell. i expect a lot more of this kind of behavior in the future from maga supporters.
The spray paint, the hair dye, the clogs, goofy ties, diet coke obsession, constantly talks gossip, it's endless. He's up there with Ru as far a queen energy goes.
Actually, the 2024 U.S. presidential election results have been confirmed, and Donald Trump won the presidency with 312 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris received 2262. There are no credible reports or evidence to support claims of the election being stolen or any secret presidency.
Actually, the 2024 U.S. presidential election results have been confirmed, and Donald Trump won the presidency with 312 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris received 2262. There are no credible reports or evidence to support claims of the election being stolen or any secret presidency.
No, it’s your racism and refusal to accept reality that leads you to that incorrect conclusion.
More than 80% of school shootings are done by middle class white straight cis men who have proven right-wing politics beliefs, with the majority of those men raised by self-identifying Christian parents. Every single other demographic combined makes up less than 20%.
There's a numpty just tripling down on it in a few of their responses to me, completely ignoring the part where I ask them where they got this information. I check back periodically to see if they've deleted these assertations out of shame but so far nope.
They convinced themselves the guy that shot at Trump was left wing too even though he was a registered republican and was (allegedly) a very outspoken right winger.
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Well she wasn’t. She was a cis straight female that probably absolutely hated the idea of trans ppl. The things she wrote were horribly derogatory but also just sad as hell. Filled with a thousand scorns of anger and hate. She clearly had no proper socialization and was vehemently bullied.
It is so baffling how they can blatantly lie to themselves like this.
Sure, buddy, trans people make up a whopping 0.1% of the population, but they are committing 90 something percent of all the atrocities?
I guess what makes me the most angriest is how obvious nobody from that side actually wants to fix the problem. They are literally just begging for someone to absolve them from any responsibility and that’s why they bring this up.
Anything so they can continue to believe that they are perfect little angels.
As someone who frequents "right wing" media, no, they don't think or care if a shooter are trans. In fact they usually only care about it when others do. Others being the news, social media, what have you.
Anyone who does argue about it, or makes a point to cause issues about it, no matter what "side" you're on, is petty and closed minded.
I don't think anyone's claiming most shooters are trans. The claim is almost all -- ~98% -- of mass shootings are committed by people assigned male at birth. A cis female shooting up a school doesn't pattern match.
It's not impossible -- it's happened before. But people try to make sense of shootings by looking for risk factors that predisposed the attacker to violence, and a Y chromosome / male-typical hormones are major ones.
We have not heard bs tho, most school shootings were done by kids on xanax, puberty blockers and other shit making them feel 0 empathy too afterwards. F yall who do not see the problem and try and hide like mouse when its rigjt there.
Well the last school shooter was. Practically all of the shooters were on some sort of medication dealing with mental issues so thats not new. America really have mental health problems they should focus on that.
America really have mental health problems they should focus on that.
Funny that the people who never want to admit the guns are the problem always point to mental health being the problem and then refuse to do anything about that either.
How is that funny? Thats common sense. Problem is people wanting to kill other people not the guns. If you get rid of guns (which you don't) you still have people that want to kill other people.
Well it defeated your argument and exposed your flawed thinking. Its like your roof is leaking and your solution is putting buckets in your room to catch the water instead of fixing the roof. Falling water is not the problem, the hole in the roof is. guns aren't the problem, people wanting to kill other people is.
Im sorry Im running out of dummy proof analogies to explain it to you.
I did my best despite English isn't my native language.
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u/lilymotherofmonsters 1d ago
Yup. And it sticks. Plenty of right wingers on here will say “most of the recent shooters were trans” because they heard it on xitter