The “ism”

You know what I mean about “ism” such as racism, sexism… and on and on.

You can’t tell me that the conservatives aren’t racist!

Conservatives Are Blaming A New Racist Theory For Airline Accidents
Republicans have gone all-in on a theory that racial minority groups are being put in charge of airline safety with disastrous results.
Huff Post
By Nathalie Baptiste
January 25, 2024

A plane’s door panel blowing out while 16,000 feet in the air. A cargo plane catching on fire. A wheel popping off of a commercial jet during takeoff.

These are just a few of the recent flight safety incidents that have shocked fliers across the country. Most of the scrutiny has focused on Boeing, a billion-dollar multinational corporation which has already come under fire.

But if you ask a conservative, these scary incidents weren’t caused by aircraft CEOs putting profits over safety — they happened because too many unqualified people of color have been hired for the sake of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), blamed the incident on the company’s diversity programs, without any evidence.

Musk— also the head of Tesla, a car company that has been plagued with safety issues — said, “Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening.”

Mass murders… we are to blame! Newsweek wrote last year…

Musk—who has expressed varying views on transgender issues and is reported to have a transgender child—replied to the tweet with an exclamation mark, itself seen 2.2 million times.

The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.
The Denver shooter identified as trans.
The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.
The Nashville shooter identified as trans.
One thing is VERY clear: the modern trans movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists.

The tweet follows a school shooting in Nashville on Monday, in which Audrey Hale—identified by police as transgender—is suspected to have shot and killed six people, including three members of staff and three nine-year-old children.

"The trans movement is pushing more and more extremism each day," said Oli London, a media personality who has become critical of the transgender movement since deciding to detransition. "They recruit people, indoctrinate them and pump them full of propaganda until they become filled with hate and rage."

The conservatives gobble up all this c**p, it makes them feel superior because they “know the truth” as told by right-wing media.

Houston church shooting revives claims on transgender shooters. Evidence shows they're false
USA TODAY
By Will Carless
February 21, 2023

On a Sunday afternoon in early February, 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno walked into a Houston megachurch with her 7-year-old son and an AR-15 rifle and started shooting. A few moments later, off-duty officers at the church returned fire; the boy and a man were wounded and Genesse was killed.

In the hours that followed, as the story seeped out into the Internet, right-wing influencers immediately began posting a new version of a narrative that has emerged after many recent shootings: Moreno, far-right accounts like Libs of TikTok and End Wokeness claimed, was transgender. The shooting, they posited, was yet another in an “epidemic” of shootings by transgender people.

These claims quickly left the fringe. Conservatives with massive online followings, including U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, billionaire Elon Musk and others, seized on the narrative, replying and tweeting their own versions of the claims. Fox News ran, then later changed, a story claiming Moreno had lived “as a man.” Former President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Jr., retweeted a Libs of TikTok post with a commentary for his 10 million followers:

“Per capita violent trans extremists have to have become the most violent group of people anywhere in the world. The amount of shootings they have completed or attempted likely pales in comparison to any other radical group based on how small a group they are.”

These claims are not true — either about Moreno herself or about who is committing mass shootings in America. But with each false claim, experts warn, more people are likely to believe the idea that trans people are dangerous, ultimately putting the group at even greater risk.

They don’t care if it is true or not because the lies fit right in and reinforces their prejudices.