So We’re Just Blaming Trans Women For All Shootings Now?
Its Uvalde all over again
There was a shooting at a Houston megachurch where the shooter in question ‘used “multiple aliases,” including “Jeffrey Escalante,”’ leading some to conclude she was trans.
Contrary to what you might think, it sounds like it might have started with MSNBC making the assertion but then Fox News came in to exploit it with a narrative.
It got so bad some idiot from the House of Representatives spoke on this with an astounding mix of racism and transphobia, implying both led to this situation.
Wait, MSNBC started it??????
Think about this for a second, this shit didn’t start with Fox News it started with MSNBC, the supposedly liberal news channel. Maybe I’m wrong but it sounds like they saw an opportunity to tack trans onto the story and instantly gain attention and just rolled with it.
I’m not clear if Fox got the idea the shooter was trans from MSNBC, its likely they just came to the same conclusion separately.
I do know that they seem bent on convincing everyone that trans people are disproportionately likely to commit shootings. That’s pretty funny coming from the Right.
While I’m tempted to say they’re trying to distract people from their likelihood to commit acts of terrorism like this, I think it may be something else.
Trans people, in their eyes, show how feminism blurred the sexes then de-sexed people somehow. The de-sexing somehow symbolizes how twisted our minds have become, to the point where violent terrorism is completely predictable.
THEN they argue this is liberalism as a whole.
At least this is my best possible attempt to understand this, it really doesn’t make any sense at all. It feels more and more like these people just look for the newest minority to attack and go all in, but it just keeps getting more and more pathetic.
How do you accuse every shooter of being trans? Is that normal? It just feels like they’ve been doing this so long they lost the plot and are hoping things will make themselves clear if they keep trying hard enough.
And where is MSNBC for this?
They’re part of this even if they didn’t cause Fox News’ assertions, you’d think they’d try to fight this back but as far as I can tell, they’ve just moved on.
I got into a fight with a commenter elsewhere who said the news has an obligation to show both sides, I don’t think it does.
This assumes the world is fair and both sides are equal.
The point of the news is that knowledge has power. Telling people what happened MEANS something. If you think there’s a right and a wrong here, one would think the facts only tilt in one direction, not both.
I mean, c’mon here, either trans people are terrorists or the Republicans are for vilifying us like that.
There’s no middle here.
One would think news exists to combat ignorance.
One would think it exists to combat the sort of misinformation campaigns the Republicans are running here.