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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)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31943458

TranscriptScreenshot 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.

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's this one in Mississippi but as stated in the article:

a preliminary report released earlier this week by the Bolivar County Coroner's Office "indicates no evidence of foul play."

Though I and others are skeptical of that initial report.

I haven't heard of any other lynchings.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    There was a white guy who found hanging a few days ago... Also in Mississippi but something like 100 miles away. I think it might have been before Kirk was shot...

    Anyway, the conspiracy minded already lumped the two together without learning the details of either. As is now the custom.

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