Vigilante ‘Journalist’ Blames Libs of TikTok and Tucker Carlson for Colorado Mass Shooting
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A 22-year-old Colorado man, Anderson Lee Aldrich, shot and killed five people late Saturday night at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. Nearly 20 more were “injured by gunshots or in the stampede to escape,” and Aldrich was stopped by customers, including U.S. Army veteran Richard Fierro, before the slaughter could continue. Despite the fact that the motive is unknown and that Aldrich was involved in a standoff with local police last year after threatening to harm his mother with a homemade bomb, the killings are being blamed on “right wing rhetoric” around alleged homophobia and transphobia.
Brandy Zadrozny of NBC News takes the blame further, saying that there’s a “pipeline” of “online hate trends” going from the Libs of TikTok Twitter account to Tucker Carlson and then to “a right-wing politician’s mouth,” and that “hatred” has “real-life consequences.” In other words, blame Carlson and Libs of TikTok.
NBC News senior reporter @BrandyZadrozny blames @libsoftiktok and @TuckerCarlson for the mass shooting over the weekend
“It starts from some smaller accounts online like Libs of TikTok, it moves to the right-wing blogosphere, and then it ends up on Tucker Carlson.” pic.twitter.com/opYn4ec0vA
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) November 21, 2022
Appearing on MSNBC, Zadrozny said:
The response is heartbreaking. I mean, it’s a group of marginalized, vulnerable people who are disproportionately the victims of these sorts of hate crimes who are just simply saying, please stop. Please stop making money and gaining political power on our backs, and violence against us. And seemingly the answer from everybody is no, we won’t stop that, because it’s too politically expedient or it makes us too much money and we don’t want to, or we don’t know how.
I’ve been following this since about March and April. We follow, you know, online hate trends, I guess, and since April and March really the LGBT community has been the main focus of this hatred. It starts — there is a pipeline. It starts from some smaller accounts online like Libs of TikTok. It moves to the right wing blogosphere, and then it ends up on Tucker Carlson or it ends up out of a right-wing politician’s mouth. And it’s a really dangerous cycle that does have real-world consequences.”
What she means by “since April and March really the LGBT community has been the main focus of this hatred” is that when parents and politicians raised awareness of the radical sex-ed curriculum being pushed in schools behind parents’ backs, of drag queen story hours at the public library, and that children were being indoctrinated by so-called professionals who believe genital mutilation and puberty blockers are okay — resulting in a massi
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