I was withholding judgement until more facts came in. But I couldn't help but notice there were many jpp.com posters of the rightwing variety that immediately leaped to the unsubstantiated conclusion that the Texas shooter was Muslim, Antifa, or perhaps some kind of radicalized Kenyan-Muslim-Marxist.
If you have a habit of leaping to a conclusion based on nothing more than sheer conjecture, speculation, and guesswork can you please, never, ever, under any circumstances try to serve on a jury? Innocent people's lives and freedom could hang in the balance!
If you have a habit of leaping to a conclusion based on nothing more than sheer conjecture, speculation, and guesswork can you please, never, ever, under any circumstances try to serve on a jury? Innocent people's lives and freedom could hang in the balance!
The Texas Shooter Was Falsely Called A Liberal, Antifa Communist Working With ISIS — Before Anyone Knew Anything
Welcome to the world of right-wing propaganda.
WASHINGTON ― Authorities are still trying to figure out why a man*shot at least 26 people to death in a Texas church on Sunday. But the lack of a specific motive has not stopped right-wing conspiracy theorists from blaming their opponents — including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), atheists, social justice warriors, communists, the Islamic State, liberals and anti-fascist protesters — for the slaughter.
The speed at which these theories spread shows how propagandists take advantage of the information vacuum after a shooting to serve their own ends.
The shooting was not racially motivated or caused by religious beliefs, authorities said Monday, though they noted there was a “domestic situation.” (The suspect, Devin Patrick Kelley, was previously convicted for domestic assault.) But in the hours after the shooting, the public didn’t know that. Instead, conspiracy theorists took what shreds of information were available to peddle plausible-sounding theories — or simply make up lies.
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