Tragically, Perry High School Iowa principal Dan Marburger has succumbed to injuries sustained from gunshot wounds at the hands of a trans identified shooter. Marburger gave his life for his students.
I anticipate some folks will scratch their heads over why it matters that the shooter was trans identified. They made these complaints after the Nashville shooting. “Why do you want to see the manifesto?” (Here’s why: Audrey Hale’s Manifesto: Blueprint for the Total Destruction of What?) A person with this thought should ask himself if it would be useful to know whether a school shooter identified as a homophobe.
I want to know such things because my interests don’t concern the means by which ideologically-driven individuals carry out their agenda but rather the content of the agenda itself. But we all know that the complaint doesn’t actually stem from a desire to never talk about the agendas that motivates mass shooting, but rather expresses the desire that society not talk about agendas when the perpetrators are from movements and sides with which the complainant associates.
The motivation to dissimulate motive in such instances is so powerful that it can even cancel out the concern for homophobic attacks if the representative of a more favored minority is responsible for the shooting. We saw this phenomenon when a Muslim murdered 49 people and injured another 53 people at a gay night club in Orlando Florida in 2016. Progressives went out of their way to downplay the fact that the shooter was motivated by Islamist beliefs. (See The Courage to Name the Problem.)
(This was an indicator that concern for homophobia was being moved downward in the hierarchy of oppressions even back then. Part of this was due to Trump’s realism concerning Islamic terrorism. This had the effect of transforming the Islamic terrorist into a hero in the progressive mind, a phenomenon we see today in the pro-Hamas marches—rallies for a terrorist organization that presents with, among other things, a profoundly homophobic character. See Woke Progressivism and the Party of God.)
We also see the phenomenon in the widespread ignorance that most mass shootings in America are perpetrated by inner-city youth in black and brown majority neighborhoods. (See How to Misrepresent the Racial Demographics of Mass Murder; Everything Progressives Say About Mass Shootings is Wrong…and Racist.)
If we want to end school and other shootings, we have to focus on the belief systems that motivate them and stop using these events as an excuse to gun grab. There is a significant trend of trans identifying people and their allies resorting to intimidation and violence to advance the movement. It is a serious development. We have to talk about it. (I have been. See, e.g., From Delusion to Illusion: Transitioning Disordered Personalities into Valid Identities.)
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