"avoid pandering to those individuals on the Right who will use this double-tragedy to torment fear and terror of transgender people in order to advance a political agenda of transgender elimination."
"avoid pandering to those individuals on the Right who will use this double-tragedy to torment fear and terror of transgender people in order to advance a political agenda of transgender elimination."
This statement is the worst possible response and if I were part of this organization I'd start asking questions about whether the people responsible are wreckers.
It appeals to people to not give credence to the right wingers trying to paint trans people as dangerous mentally ill shooters right after it spends several paragraphs trying to mitigate the shooter's actions by claiming mentally illness and almost straight out saying "you're lucky more trans people aren't like this."
There's also sundry other things wrong with the statement like failing to find time to condemn the shooter or the shooting in that wall of text, as well as using copraganda passive voice bullshit but that pales in comparison to implicitly linking the shooter's actions to being trans while appealing to people to not link his actions to being trans.
Seriously messed up statement.
It almost reads like rage bait for right wingers. Highly sus