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Originally Posted by miami_fan

Maybe I misinterpreted what he meant but I took it as a trans man killer is not nearly as effective of a villain as it would be if the murderer were a trans woman. If you don't believe in transgenders, then you are just saying a chick cosplaying as a man shot up a school. That is not a successful narrative IMO and is more likely to blow over. It is not like the initial ID was of a guy and then we found out that the person was transgendered. Nor is the media pushing a traditional man's name on the murderer which would allow opponents to deadname the killer. From everything I saw, the description has been a woman named Audrey Hale shot up a school. Oh and she identified as transgender and used the pronouns He/Him.

Yes it should be investigated and it may have been a factor or even a primary motive. The idea that this is seminal event that will be used to justify future actions is silly because no more justification is needed. I spent an hour on a treadmill this morning with Fox & Friends on one of the TV screens in front of me. There was much more concern about the War on Christianity, putting more guns in schools and the government using this incident to take away guns from citizens than of the transgenders. Will it be swept completely under the carpet? No. Will it be the same sort of huge deal if it were a trans woman? No.

I took Jon's comment the way I assume he intended it - because the shooting was by someone on the left, it will be swept under the rug. It really doesn't matter what kind of lefty, just that the media is going to protect the shooter because the shooter and media agree on ideology. Based on Jon's comments for the past couple of decades here, I'm pretty sure that's what he meant.