A news article about the Sep 4 school shooting in Georgia says the shooter was frustrated about the acceptance of trans people. LibsOfTikTok reinterpreted this to mean the exact opposite of what it says, and blamed trans people for the shooting, so all the twitter chuds were baying for blood all day yesterday.

They’ve done this for every major shooting in the US for the past few years

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    50·
    12 days ago

    Chuds do this with every mass shooting/killing. They claim the guy who shot Trump was a Democrat and trans. They were claiming Ashley Babit (sp?) was a crisis actor. The Uvalde shooter was a Latino immigrant.

    They say wrong things on purpose because they agree with the shooters. They’re just too chickenshit to do anything themselves. They want plausible deniability but will cheer these terrorists on from behind closed doors.

    • heggs_bayer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      12 days ago

      Never believe that chuds are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The chuds have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        12 days ago

        Not a fan of this quote really. It seems to be built on the premise that humans are somehow incapable of sincerely believing in nonsense because, I don’t know, we’re just inherently rational or something?

        It does fit obvious grifters like Jacob Wohl (or whatever his name is) and Alex Jones, but it’s definitely not universally applicable. Just look at someone like Jordan Peterson, the guy clearly buys all of his own bullshit and so do most of his fans.

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          20·
          12 days ago

          Not a fan of this quote really. It seems to be built on the premise that humans are somehow incapable of sincerely believing in nonsense because, I don’t know, we’re just inherently rational or something?

          I think it’s just observing a sort of nihilistic troll behavior that’s probably a thing that some people have always done, where the contents of what’s being said doesn’t matter so long as they’re at once inflammatory and self-serving. It shouldn’t be taken to conclude that everyone who is awful is just maliciously pretending, but that there’s a certain sort of bombastic troll who just makes up shit on the spot and says it with a shit eating grin and complete conviction, knowing that it’s bullshit but enjoying the harm it causes and the way it furthers their own goals.

          It’s like a less formalized, more intuitive version of neoreactionary meme magic bullshit, just saying things you just made up over and over until people believe them.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    12 days ago

    Huh? So the answer to this kid shooting up a school because he’s upset that trans people are being accepted is to give in to his grievance? Or does the chud have no reading comprehension and got the opposite message from what was written? I guess Chaya did write it in a deliberately ambiguous way. wall-flipped wall wall sacred duty of journalism etc etc etc

  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    12 days ago

    Chaya Raichik makes me so viscerally angry. I probably shouldnt let her because its what she wants. But I just fucking hate her. Probably more than any other chud who’s not in an actual position of political power (I mean its arguable she does have political power since she’s influencing policy lol).

  • vegeta1 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    12 days ago

    I despise this social media age. All thats needed is some influential idiot to spread a narrative and it catches on like wild fire. Even though a lot of the audience already has that bias its still fucking annoying.

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      12 days ago

      remember how much fake news about Imane Khelif being AMAB (not that there would be anything wrong if she actually was) there was? Like actual lies and misgendering?

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    12 days ago

    reinterpreted this to mean the exact opposite of what it says, and blamed trans people for the shooting

    If bourgeoise media does not act as gatekeepers to this behaviour the only recourse is to go after the bourgeoisie responsible until they realise that gatekeeping this behaviour is necessary for their own safety.

    Call me an adventurist or whatever but we actually crossed a line where this started to be necessary a while ago and simply haven’t caught up yet because the movement is not yet radical enough.

    This behaviour caused the UK race riots which while bad did not actually kill anyone. If the same spark is achieved in the US with such lies it will cause mass murder on a huge scale.