Minneapolis mayor warns against ‘villainizing trans community’ after shooting leaves 2 children dead

https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-transgender-church-shooter

29 comments

  1. MAGA cares more about the identity of the shooter than the fact that children are dead. The moment a member of a minority group does something horrible, they bash the entire group because they don’t care what the person did, just who they are. They use it as an excuse to further their bigotry, racism, and hatred.

    They would rather continue pointless culture wars than do something meaningful to prevent these killings from happening in the first place.

  2. Think about how the Trump administration treated the “carjacking” in DC. How they used it as an excuse for everything they were already wanting to put in place. I’m afraid that’s how they’ll treat this.

  3. Good on the mayor but nobody who needs to heed that advice is listening. Expect mob violence from MAGA within the coming weeks. They wanted their “trans shooter”, they got one. Granted, they would have made one up if they needed to but the point still stands. Trans people are the most nonviolent people in America per capita and are far more likely to be the victims of violence. But nobody cares because we have some of the highest poverty rates, homeless rates and general hardships of anyone in the country and most of the world. We’re not a privileged class who were being scapegoated for the lower classes problems like Tutsis in Rwanda, we are the lowest caste in society who are being targeted. Think more Romani in Europe. Utterly destitute and still blamed for all the problems in a society.

    I don’t expect most Democrats to care and do expect them to fold to the Trump administration like Gavin Newsom has on the issue.

  4. So two catholic kids dying means it’s a hate crime and terrorism. And the loons on the right trying to villainize an entire group of people because of one persons actions.
    But when schools are shot up, people are killed because of their gender/race/sexual orientation by (what is almost always) white Republican dudes and that’s just not a huge deal I guess?
    What idiots.

  5. And Republicans will suddenly care about this particular shooting because the shooter is trans.

    If the shooter was cis they would just shrug their shoulders, tell the parents to just have another child and drop it.

  6. Check out the conservative sub, also known as r/constantlylickingorangeasshole

    They don’t give a FUCK about children, they are just thrilled it was a trans person. Confirmation bias at its finest.

    They literally are the dumbest fucking people on the planet.

  7. Imagine if we terrorized white males every time one of them committed a mass shooting.

  8. According to conservative logic, this person graduated from a Christian school. Therefore, we should villainize everyone who graduated from Christian schools.

  9. Get ready for this shooting to get 10,000,000,000% more coverage by conservatives than the shooter who tried to assassinate Donald Trump

  10. I was diagnosed with cancer today and I’m more scared for my trans daughter than my breast cancer.

  11. Oh look another young white person groomed online into doing school shootings.
    I’m sure nothing will be said about the 4chan memes (nazi image board) all over his gun. 
    I’m sure it won’t be mentioned that he did this in the Tarant style (nazi Christchurch shooter). 
    I’m sure nothing will be mentioned about the fact that this looks like another Terror-gram shooting (telegram literally has sections referring to shooters as Saints).

    Nope its all gonna be about how at one point they identified as trans because the right wing has called every mass shooter trans for the last decade trying to drive up hate. 

    Please share this shit even before they knew the shooter was trans they were blaming queer people because its what they do every time.

  13. This person was probably radicalized on telegram. It checks all the order of nine angles/764 mass shooter fandom boxes. Kmfdm, nazi references, Russia, Satanism, nihlism, etc. They had a loss meme drawn on the rifle underneath the name of the tree of life shooter, along with “do you believe in god” (columbine). Skibidi Brevik written on one of the magazines. They will focus on the shooters gender identity instead of the violent extremist groups egging these attacks on.

  14. remember, as we watch MAGA try to spin this:

    despite making up 47% of the population, cis men make up 97.7% of mass shooters in the united states.

  15. We really do speed run through all the political dimensions of an attack like this super quick nowadays. 

    All the talking points are lined up based on assailant, the counterpoints, politicization, bad faith, and just metric tons of cynicism all not even a half day after. 

  16. For every mass shooter who is trans, how many straight white dudes are mass shooters?

  17. MAGA already has and only care about shootings when the perp is trans.

  18. Oh, no, ignore that the shooter went to that school, and their mother worked there, let’s just focus on this one other thing. No, not online radicalization, you know what I mean!

  19. Depending on what source you choose there are about 63-70 murders a day in the USA. MAGA will amplify this one though to stoke their fear of anyone who isn’t a white fake Christian male.

  20. The shooter was a Neo nazi as well which one do you think they will focus on.

  21. Too late. Already seen the MAGA crowd start bringing up establishing National registries for Trans people that can be easily accessed by the public

  22. That’s what needs to be said, along with the mayor pointing out that there needs to be more than thoughts and prayers comments because those children were in church praying.

    People using this tragedy to go after the trans community are wretched and vile

  24. >He pointed to the nearly 60 shootings at K-12 schools in 2025 alone and argued that lawmakers have consistently blocked lifesaving gun reforms.

    God damn, there have been *60* shootings at schools *this year*?

  27. Do they REALLY want to play the identity game with school shooters?

    What percentage of them are straight, white, Christian Republicans? (almost all?)

  28. Let’s just say it was a Trans person. For the sake of space, most of the other serial murderers were NOT Trans. Why is there rarely a villainizing of other categories of people responsible for the majority of mass murders? Why villainize any group for anything done by an individual? This is a great opportunity to learn not to do this.

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