I'm ambivalent about posting this.
I got the message below from a friend who lives in Minneapolis when I asked about his including "trans" in his description of the killer at the Catholic church. I hadn't heard this anywhere else, and wanted to know if it was a thing on the right. Apparently it is, and I think DU should know that. I'm verey impressed with the MSM that I've heard nothing about this. Just as I was impressed that I knew nothing about the pilot of the Potomac crash helicopter except from a brief photograph. Just goes to show, though, that we live in totally separate worlds.
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Most mass shooters are cis straight white males with right wing social histories. Nothing is ever made of that fact by the media.
But every now and then a mass shooter is different from the standard in some way that is insignificant to the fact that they're an effing mass murderer - and the right wing noise machine can be counted on to make it sound like this is the first mass murder in years and it was perpetrated by a person who might be trans! Gasp and golly gee.
Meanwhile the rest of the mass murders are ignored.
And if every trans person doesn't immediately publicly denounce this killer people will ask "why isn't the trans community speaking up about this?!
