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Lakewood Church shooting suspect identified as transgender woman; 'Free Palestine' written on gun (www.foxnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alt article: https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/authorities-respond-to-reported-shooting-near-houston-church/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

Crazy how you guys only care about gun violence when someone other than your own side does it. Especially given that most political violence is right wing violence.

Announcing the shooter as trans front and center in the headline only serves to portray trans people as violent and dangerous, because where would fox news be if not for its continual perpetuation of bigotry against already vulnerable minorities?

Most shooters are straight, cis, white males. Yet you'll never see fox news with a headline going "X shooting suspect identified as a straight, cis, white male with 'kill all blacks' written on gun".

Meanwhile your alternative article you linked shows what better journalism looks like:

"Female suspect fatally shot after shooting at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church"

And here is an actually good source:

https://apnews.com/article/church-shooting-joel-osteen-texas-ea557401f2eef247020e34297159536a

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Ive said it time and time again, conservatives are not a monolith. Please stop acting like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

More people should hear and understand this on both extreme ends of the political spectrum.

Don't listen to people who broadly mock an ideology with straw man arguments and broad generalizations. That shit is for children.

If someone says "conservatives always..."/"liberals only think..." or any variation just ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also it's odd that you're complaining that I'm grouping republicans together (for a post/article you guys agree with and support), but when someone comes along and says "dEMocRatS aRe VIoLenT" you're silent. What a double standard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you link to somewhere blameta did this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And no I would never fit into the democrats. I’m neither woke nor a racist.

https://lemm.ee/comment/9020958

That is why so many Democrats are in prison compared to Republicans.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8872460

Democrats support illegal immigration. It’s not shocking since democrats love lawlessness.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8870239

As I’ve said many times, democrats. (Liberals) are racist.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8520157

That’s democrats who want the racial and gender caste system.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8513465

That is because Democrats love to spend money they don’t have.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8410895

It is well known the Nazis and Democrats are well connected. Two peas in a pod.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8405309

Democrats are still racist as they’ve always been.

https://lemm.ee/comment/8377599

This is just the past month alone, and just one user. Admittedly, 90% of these kinds of statements come from winter. But every single one, not a peep out of the mods saying "hey, don't say that, democrats are not a monoloth".

The exact one about democrats being violent must have been from a while ago. And tbh I don't care enough to go digging for it. My point has been made.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So because I dont censor it, that must mean I agree with it? Is that really your mindset?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So because I dont censor it, that must mean I agree with it?

Not even close to what I am saying.

What I am actually saying:

You are applying a double standard
You are failing to keep this place civil

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What double standard?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also it’s odd that you’re complaining that I’m grouping republicans together (for a post/article you guys agree with and support), but when someone comes along and says “dEMocRatS aRe VIoLenT” you’re silent. What a double standard.