I’m a Pulse survivor. Rightwing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric made the Club Q massacre inevitable

The Guardian ^ | Wed 23 Nov 2022 | Brandon Wolf

[artichokegrower]

Brandon Wolf was at the Orlando club when a gunman opened fire. His community knew another tragedy was coming

[artichokegrower]

It’s impossible to think about Pulse without remembering the horrible events of 12 June 2016. But Pulse was also a home. Obviously the night that the tragedy happened is emblazoned in my memory for ever, but it’s the beautiful, joyful times that stick with me.

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old man, killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Orlando Police officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff.

In a 9-1-1 call made shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and said the U.S. killing of Abu Waheeb in Iraq the previous month "triggered" the shooting. He later told a negotiator he was "out here right now" because of the American-led interventions in Iraq and in Syria and that the negotiator should tell the United States to stop the bombing. The incident was deemed a terrorist attack by FBI investigators.

Yep definitely sounds like a MAGA Republican

[Red Badger]

Apparently this freak hasn’t heard. The Q Gunman is a fag...............

[cgbg]

Yup—and the perp in the new case is “non binary”—does not sound like MAGA....

Leftists howl in pain as they commit mass murders.

[john drake]

Can he explain the motive of a nonbinary persons hate towards the alphabet community, i.e., in Colorado Springs?

[Carriage Hill]

How is that “rightwing”? Baffles me.

[Gay State Conservative]

Poor Brandon....just diagnosed with his 27th case of rectal syphilis and he's so angry he could scream. After all,that pretty young stud looked so *clean*!

[silverleaf]

You mean, they are a binary people

No mental issues there, nosiree

[FlingWingFlyer]

Is there another Orlando, Florida besides the one in the United States?

[uranium penguin]

Pulse shooter... (IIRC) fundamentalist Muslim.
Q shooter.. Non binary.

[George from New England]

If this idiot was swinging the other way, there would be no coverage in the press.

[Carriage Hill]

The fag community should call them who they are: “murderous muzzie”(SPIT!) and “fellow fag”.

[Chode]

fratricide...

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Step 1: Please provide examples of “anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric”.
Step 2: Please provide NAMES and POLITICAL GROUP ASSOCIATIONS of the source of this rhetoric.
Step 3: Please provide evidence of DIRECT violent influence on the gunman (gun-they?) involved in the Colorado shooting.

Until this DIRECT connection can be established, you just fulla sh!t, son.

[Steely Tom]

Yes but he had a great uncle who was a Republican, so obviously his behavior is not his fault, but rather the fault of Donald Trump. This is “science.”

[BitWielder1]

So "Don't groom our children" is hate speech?

[Jewbacca]

Saw pictures.

Undoubtedly not cool enough for the place and so got rejected.

Basically a gay incel.

[j.havenfarm]

The approved narrative is quickly getting a bit creaky. No matter; media will just ignore the facts and continue to push the lie

[FlyingEagle]

Yeah except a twink did it.

[central_va]

The shooter was a faggot.

[DennisR]

Yep.

Another display of cognitive dissonance.