The REAL victim is...

A media narrative has developed on the Nashville shooting, and it is as you would expect.

The shooter was the real victim. Opponents of transgender ideology drove her to do it. What else can you expect?

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Beege wrote a great piece on how transgender ideology advocates are now actively promoting violence against their opponents, and that is indisputable. As I wrote earlier, I don’t want to speculate publicly about the motives of the particular shooter in this case, because the motives are out there and will be revealed soon enough.

But I am perfectly willing to respond to the idiocy and bad faith of others who are promoting their own narrative, and I am sickened by their dishonest and evil spin on the events.

It’s baffling. Or, rather, it should be baffling, but in fact it is not.

The media went to great pains to ensure that the shooter was labeled a “woman” and not a man, despite the fact that she identified as one. They took a lot of flak for that from the transgender community and are still struggling to decide how to label her, including which pronouns to use.

The New York Times did a story on how rare female mass shooters are (which is very true), and can’t quite decide whether or not this particular shooting was committed by a man or a woman.

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The news media has picked up the trans liberation movement’s narrative that laws banning the gender transition of minors inspired this act, basically justifying this act of violence as a political statement and even an act of self-defense.

Children were targeted for murder, and the trans community is the real victim. Because of course it is.

CNN analysts have taken a slightly different tack–they think we should just ignore the fact that the killer is trans, despite the fact that a spate of shootings in recent months have been committed by transgendered folks. As of now my suspicion that the killer’s transgender identity had something to do with the shooting hasn’t been confirmed, so I will make no connection as of yet. Because trans people are the ultimate victims the trans status has to be swept under the rug, as was the case in the Colorado Springs shooting.

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The media is so obsessed with attacking The Daily Wire and all transgender ideology opponents that they feel free to tag them with the guilt for the shooting, despite the fact that it was not they, but a transgender-identifying person who did this. Matt Walsh keeps on insisting the obvious: if you are a man who thinks he is a woman then you have a mental illness. For this, the media vilifies him and blames him for the mental illness of a woman who thinks he is a man.

This is such an inversion of reality that it just might work. So many people are now invested in the sick notion that children should be sterilized and mutilated that they cannot consider that the opponents might have a point. No matter how many proofs there are that they are harming children and fostering mental illness, they will persist.

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It’s just like the COVID fanatics who will die on the hill that lockdowns were a good idea, despite the obvious fact that is acknowledged by most people that they were a disaster. They cling to the mask mandates and engage in mental gymnastics that would make Nadia Cominichi twist in admiration.

The Trans Resistance Network insists that the shooter was a victim, and apparently, the media agrees. The death of these children and the shooter is the result of conservatives desperately trying to protect children.

This is the extent of their desperation to defend trans ideology.

There will likely be more violence by, rather than against trans people. Not because being trans makes one violent; there is literally no prior evidence for this as far as I am aware. The violence has coincided with extremist ideology. As the one grew, so did the other.

The media feeds this trend. As do our politicians. My own Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flannagan wore this shirt on the day that my Governor Walz signed his transgender kidnapping bill.

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I am sure she meant that in a mostly peaceful way, but the fact is that violent rhetoric and ideological extremism have gone hand in hand with this movement.

 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | November 21, 2024
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