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the right trying to pin shootings on anyone but themselves isn't funny or silly, it's dangerous and deliberate
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31943458
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Screenshot of a Tumblr post by sonicguillotine:For the past few years any time there’s a public shooting, political or not, fascists immediately begin pushing a narrative that the shooter had some connection to the trans community, anarchist or communist politics, to migrant or Black communities. These are always tenuous claims but now with multiple racist lynchings following Kirk’s death, it’s time to recognize the danger of these kinds of mythmakings. They are calls to violence.
Apologies if my earlier reply sounded argumentative; I didn't mean it to be. I just meant it as "This is also going on and here's what I'm doing with the available information."