Comment on Lakewood Church shooting suspect identified as transgender woman; 'Free Palestine' written on gun
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Crazy how you guys only care about gun violence when someone other than your own side does it. Especially given that most political violence is right wing violence.
Announcing the shooter as trans front and center in the headline only serves to portray trans people as violent and dangerous, because where would fox news be if not for its continual perpetuation of bigotry against already vulnerable minorities?
Most shooters are straight, cis, white males. Yet you’ll never see fox news with a headline going “X shooting suspect identified as a straight, cis, white male with ‘kill all blacks’ written on gun”.
Most shooters are straight, cis, white males.
You only think so because the media memory holes any shooting by a trans activist.
Why do we not have the covenant shooters full manifesto? Why was it hidden for so long? Because it said things like this -
Wanna kill all you little c*******," one page from the manifesto reads. “Bunch of little f****** w/ your white privlages f*** you f******.”
You only think so because the media memory holes any shooting by a trans activist.
You are factually incorrect.
statista.com/…/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shoote…
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N363273/
Of those, “the number of known suspects in mass shootings which are trans is under 10 for the last decade,” which translated to “1:880 [or 0.11%] of the 4,400 shootings” they recorded, he said.
But shills don’t care about facts, only the narrative.
This aged well.
Statement like that is the result of only listening to things like fox news and not the bee. It’s the result of thinking fox news is somehow a valid news source.
I think noting a shooter is trans is noteworthy because it’s very rare and may be related to their motive.
But otherwise I generally agree with your statement. Worth nothing that the US Department of Homeland Security has considered right wing extremists the biggest terrorist threat to the US for many years.
Worth nothing that the US Department of Homeland Security has considered right wing extremists the biggest terrorist threat to the US for many years.
And why should I care what some government jerkoffs decide the narrative is?
Because they’re experts instead of anonymous social media accounts.
Oh wow, they’re expert jerkoffs.
It isn’t rare at when you look look at the percentage of the population. Trans people are more likely to go on A mass shooting.
According to another users comment below:
Of those, “the number of known suspects in mass shootings which are trans is under 10 for the last decade,” which translated to “1:880 [or 0.11%] of the 4,400 shootings” they recorded, he said.
For the US, “About 1.03% of the nation’s adult population identifies as transgender, according to the Household Pulse Survey.”
So it seems people who aren’t trans are approximately ten times more likely to go on a mass shooting. Am I missing something?
Yes. Since they are less than 1% of the population. We should rarely if even see a trans person in a mass shooting. Yet that isn’t the case.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ive said it time and time again, conservatives are not a monolith. Please stop acting like it.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
More people should hear and understand this on both extreme ends of the political spectrum.
Don’t listen to people who broadly mock an ideology with straw man arguments and broad generalizations. That shit is for children.
If someone says “conservatives always…”/“liberals only think…” or any variation just ignore them.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Also it’s odd that you’re complaining that I’m grouping republicans together (for a post/article you guys agree with and support), but when someone comes along and says “dEMocRatS aRe VIoLenT” you’re silent.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Can you link to somewhere blameta did this?
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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This is just the past month alone, and just one user. Admittedly, 90% of these kinds of statements come from winter. But every single one, not a peep out of the mods saying “hey, don’t say that, democrats are not a monoloth”.
The exact one about democrats being racist must have been from a while ago. And tbh I don’t care enough to go digging for it. My point has been made.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Guys I think this might be a joke
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If you’re going to comment, at least try to address what I’m saying.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You know what? Fuck it.
Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.
That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.
Define shootings. Because with one definition, you can have 300+ shootings every year, but that counts gang violence, and suddenly white men aren’t the biggest contributors to the stat anymore. I’ll let you guess which demographic would, since you brought it up.
Alternatively, excluding gang violence, you can have under a dozen every year, and white men are the biggest contributors. Not per capita, but still in absolute numbers.
Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.
Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name. They are pushing an angle by omission. Same as fox, same as cbs, same as every news site.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m saying gun violence because that’s the topic. Getting upset over this wording is like getting upset somebody calls a ride on a plane “air travel” instead of “travel”. That’s the category of the subject being discussed.
Even if you’re just limiting to domestic terrorism, right wing terrorism is the majority of said terrorism.
I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about politically motivated attacks when I was talking about the straight white shooters thing. Gang violence isn’t really politically motivated.
And your numbers are way off, even by the other definition:
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
statista.com/…/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shoote…
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N363273/
So when left wing sources push an angle, it’s to reduce deaths. When right wing sources push an angle, it’s to demonize minorities who are already at risk for violence.
And you think that makes you look good? That makes it far worse.
Glorifying shooters only makes copy cats more likely. The AP is being responsible.
MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There’s an easy way to get him to stop posting coal
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Even if I get banned, someone else will carry the torch for me and will bring reason to this place.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Do you honestly think you’re bringing reason to this place?