Pride Month post #18

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March 31st of this year was the day scheduled for the “Trans Day of Vengeance”. The date came about, but the ‘day’ never happened. Why? because it was hurriedly decided to call it something else, following Audrey Hale’s personal day of ‘vengeance’ on March 27th.

Yep. That’s when she entered the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, and murdered six people, three of them nine-year-old children. The children, in particular, were shot in the back multiple times while they ran and after they had fallen. (Oh, and her first victim was a black man, yet I never heard any calls for a ‘hate crime’ investigation. Why not? Mystery. Mystery.)

Several, several interesting bits regarding this event.

First and most obvious: Hale was a ‘trans’ “man”, meaning a woman who had — in contradiction of verifiable physical reality — declared herself to BE a man. Yet, in all the reporting, she was called “she” and referred to by her actual name, rather than the male name (Aiden) she had chosen for herself. Both of these media practices were the blatant exact opposite of those demanded by the trans lobby for every other part of their existence and operation … but then, the trans lobby didn’t object. It was as if, the moment a transpersyn did something that everyone knew nobody would approve or countenance, ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ and ‘respect’ demanded that her self-proclaimed identity be ignored and vanished. She was a man because she said she was a man … until she became a murderer, and then her ‘male’ identity had to be jettisoned.

Second … well, for her murder rampage she used one of the various AR-15 models. You know, that deadly assault rifle, that ‘weapon of war’ (despite that it isn’t an assault rifle and no military anywhere uses it or ever has), that self-automating monstrosity which explodes people from the inside and renders them lethally radioactive for the next 80 million years … Uh-huh. Weird thing: I own an AR-15, and it hasn’t killed anybody. Nor has it made me kill anybody. Why, it’s almost as if the rifle doesn’t do anything unless some PERSON does something with it. (In my case, nothing. In Hale’s case, an atrocity.)

Then there’s the matter of the police response. Remember how police in Uvalde, Texas held station at the school there for more than an hour while Salvador Ramos was murdering 19 people inside? Well, the Nashville police went straight into Covenant School the moment they arrived, and had located and killed the murderous bitch within the next four minutes. They didn’t think they were ‘outgunned’ by an AR-15.

Next up? Response. The Trans Resistance Network proclaimed that Hale “had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others.” Well, FUCK THEM, and fuck anybody who doesn’t spit curses the moment they hear such vicious, vile shit. Trans people have all kinds of ways of being seen and heard. We see and hear them all the time. These days there doesn’t seem to be any means by which we can avoid seeing and hearing them. She didn’t go on a murder rampage to be ‘heard’, she did it because she was hateful and evil.

More response: Joe Biden couldn’t be bothered to condemn (or even identify) the perpetrator of mass murder, or to name any of the victims, much less attend any of the funerals: no, he just blamed guns. Because those guns walked into the school all by themselves and did all that shooting. Guns DO that, you know.

Yet more response: his lesbian press secretary, speaking from and for the White House, said “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.” Who is under attack? Who is under attack??!! (Well, Hale was briefly under attack by those five Nashville policemen. I don’t know how many of them shot her, but I hope all of them did, and I hope they used all the bullets they had.)

Oh, and finally: as mass shooters seem always to do, Hale released a manifesto before going out to start killing. Nobody outside the police or FBI knows what the manifesto said, because it’s been suppressed. There is more than ample evidence to support a claim that it’s been suppressed because transgender activists have demanded its suppression, backed up with not-so-thinly-veiled threats. No other mass-shooter manifesto has been held incommunicado in such a fashion. It is all but explicitly obvious that this one is the exception purely because of politics. A trans person does something universally recognized as unacceptable? you can’t talk about that, it might make trans people look bad!

I don’t think Audrey Hale perpetrated this atrocity because she was trans; I think she did it because she was crazy and evil. The treatment of her atrocity, though, that absolutely is being soft-pedaled because of her trans status. She’s one of the special people … meaning, if she can’t be defended (and this event was instantly recognized as searingly indefensible), she has to be not-talked-about as much as humanly possible.

I mean, it’s not like she was a heterosexual Christian conservative. That would make her fair game … but, no, she wasn’t one of those awful, icky people. Can you imagine the body count if she had been?

Can you imagine the headlines?