Nashville shooting exploited by right to escalate anti-trans rhetoric

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/30/nashville-shooting-transgender-shooter/

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Conservative commentators and Republican politicians unleashed a new wave of anti-trans rhetoric following Monday’s shooting at a Nashville Christian school that killed six people, escalating a broader backlash to the rising visibility of transgender people in public life.

The attempts on the right to connect violence to transgender people come even though transgender people are rarely the perpetrators of mass shootings, which are overwhelmingly carried out by cisgender men, according to criminal justice experts. And trans people are more likely to be victims of violence than cisgender people, multiple studies have shown.

In Nashville, the shooter’s gender identity and motive remain unclear: police initially said the shooter Audrey Hale was a 28-year-old woman, and then later said Hale was transgender, citing a social media profile in which Hale used masculine pronouns. The Post has not yet confirmed how Hale identified.

Nevertheless, Fox News host Tucker Carlson featured a photo of the shooter superimposed with the words “Trans Killer” on his Tuesday show. The chyron read: “We are witnessing the rise of trans violence.”

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[gratuitous]

1. I thought "politicizing" the tragedy was a big no-no?

Or is that applicable only to the wrong kind of politicizing?

[sakabatou]

3. It's only wrong when a non-Republican does it.

[Chainfire]

2. You had to see that coming.

It doesn't matter that people with non-traditional sexual identification have been harrassed, beaten and murdered for all of our history by good Christians. I saw an explanation today with a right winger saying that transgender people were mentally defective and that is why the shooting took place...Some people will not miss the chance to stir up hatred.

These same right wingers will claim, with a straight face, that all modern mass killers were liberals.

[Walleye]

4. Hale was no doubt raised in a strict Christian household having been sent to the school,

So what went wrong, Republicans? They needed more Christ and more guns in their lives? How much does it take?

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Real life story..just now..how my hubby drove home from the store is beyond me..he was

livid..shaking livid..he was in the garden center at this store..picking up his garden soil, plant food..and then paint for a job he is on..as he was putting the big bags of soil in the cart..just outside cashier open area..some guy..40ish..in line checking out..hubby heard this guy spewing venom about the transgender shooter..something about trans..shooting..cause..affect..hubby walked by at first..guy kept spewing..okay, now you got his attention..wrong move..hubby is a street fighter who has mellowed over his 69 years..

Hubby shouted STFU..called him a trumpanzee..told him to crawl back in the dirt where he came from..along with his effin' leader..we don't need your hate..you don't know what you are talking about..you degenerate hater..other people in line backed up thinking here comes the brawl..hubby is too old..but he has a mouth ..he wanted this guy to take a swing..he was telling himself he had one more in him..he said he was lining up the glass coke machine to slam him..put his head through it..

I have him calmed down by talking through it..he was in a great mood..looking forward to Red Sox opening day @11am..he is calm now..but he says he won't let the hate lie..without saying something..the hate needs to be called out..

So, we had no idea tucker was spewing the hate last night..but, it has already hit the streets..(AZ)