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."
  • fracture [he/him] @beehaw.org
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    6 days ago

    that’s so crazy they’re really double dipping in that the shooter hates queer ppl and then the media calls him queer to slander queer ppl

    STOP, pick one ffs

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    8 days ago

    They didn’t “misinterpret” any fucking thing. They are shit people who want to tear down the US for money.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Nah, it’s worse. A lot of them want to tear down the whole world for other reasons like thinking that enslaving women is the only way they can get laid, or that expelling immigrants is the only way they can get a job. Attacking LGBT people is how they virtue signal to other hateful people.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Attacking LGBT people is how they virtue signal to other hateful people.

        I think it’s worse than that. They are motivated by real hatred and have repeatedly called for the “eradication” of trans people. They must not be given a chance to show us how serious they are about that.