On September 4, 14-year-old suspect Colt Gray allegedly killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in what has become Georgia’s deadliest school shooting. Continuing a familiar trend, fringe right-wing accounts almost immediately began claiming without evidence that the shooter was trans.  Prominent right-wing media influencers followed suit, apparently misinterpreting a CNN report about the suspect’s online activity to baselessly claim that the suspect was “another trans shooter” and “motivated by trans activism."
  • Hestia [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    another trans shooter

    Pretty sure there's been a grand total of like... a single trans shooter? As opposed to almost every other which has been... cis white male, who probably watches the programs that claim he was a trans shooter

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      Pretty sure they tried to do this with the Texas concert shooter too

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      This has been a common tactic for the right going back as far as there have been mass shootings. They will always claim the shooter is part of some out-group, while simultaneously cheering for mass murder. Then they will bring out """"crime statistics"""" about how black and Latino people are the real mass shooters, so a white shooter doesn't count because reasons.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    How many transgender mass-shooters have there even been? Zero? One?

    I assume they just spew this fake news in order to make people hear "trans shooter" over and over again until they think it's a pattern.