Posted on 08/25/2023 6:16:02 AM PDT by NetAddicted
Matt Lavietes reports for NBC OUT that a Californian business owner was allegedly shot and killed for displaying a pride flag. "The far right has repeatedly linked the flag to the decades-old trope that links gay and transgender people to child abusers who want to 'groom' or sexualize children," Lavietes writes, "a trope that has recently had a resurgence."
Here's Lavietes messaging Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok, inviting her to comment on "criticism that your online posts about the LGBTQ Pride flag have incited violence, including and similar to the California store owner." Whenever journalists write "critics say," that means they're about to express their own opinion.
NBC and trans activists are blaming a murder on @MattWalshBlog and myself because we dared criticize shoving the progress pride flag down the throats of children.
Thr media is truly the enemy of the people. They deserve your disgust and contempt. pic.twitter.com/0aIu9zbUfi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 24, 2023
"So, are you an accessory to murder?"
That whole story is extremely sketchy anyway. If that guy was really that bothered by the pride flag, he would have been in 20 violent confrontations per day in California.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) August 24, 2023
Sue NBC. Period.
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) August 24, 2023
The murderer wasn't white, so they gotta pin this on someone else!
— raf (@defi_raf) August 24, 2023
When will they be releasing Audrey Hale’s manifesto?
— Ryan (@drrdwellington) August 24, 2023
"When asked about the post, Raichik said in a message to NBC News, 'Why are you comparing anyone who criticizes the progress pride flag being shoved down the throats of children, to a violent murderer?'" Good question.
Sticks and stones can break bones, but words will literally genocide the most celebrated minority in the history of the world. 🙄
— Jason Jones (@jonesville) August 24, 2023
A vitriolic Alejandra Caraballo, a trans activist, is their go-to in this article. She definitely knows how to hate on this platform. We owe more to the victim of this atrocious hate-filled murder. @NBCNews @Esqueer_ pic.twitter.com/rOIzRTBUna
— KDugan1850 (@KDugan1850) August 24, 2023
The whole mainstream media has her on speed-dial.
That is exactly what victim mentality people do. Blame others.
— GuideByGrace (@GuideByGrace) August 24, 2023
They have not provided ANY evidence that shooting was over a pride flag yet they write as if there was.
“tHe pOLicE sAId so”
— JR Moore (@J_Moore1292) August 24, 2023
There has to be more than that, or this suspect would be shooting Californians all day every day.
Also that woman was shot by her brother so, call me crazy, that might have been something other than an alphabet issue.
— Faye Hausendorff (@FayeH321) August 24, 2023
Why don't they mention that it was her BROTHER that shot her??
— Will Ryan (@MeRtLe1212) August 24, 2023
She was shot and killed by her own brother. So tell him to go back and research first. Then he can come back and ask you something. How about they find out what happened in their family that the brother felt bold enough to kill his sister
— CC (@TheDocsPond17) August 24, 2023
And they alone get to decide what is and is not "reasonable criticism."
— Behavioral Sink Repairman (@stromhawkgt) August 24, 2023
As we learned this Pride Month, you can burn the American flag as free speech, but it's a hate crime to damage a pride flag.
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I had not read the murderer was her brother. Have you?
Associating a right winger to a crime is an oft used leftist tactic. The best example is when Sarah Palin was blamed for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. A more recent example is that trans suicides are blamed on opponents of child mutilation. Of course BLM supporters are never blamed for the mayhem committed by the black gang.
What do the X posts mean that it was her brother who shot and killed her?
It was her brother?! What the hay?
As we have learned from the retarded “cancel culture” crowd, flags “trigger” retards. Why was she allowed to fly the flag in public in the first place when we know it “triggers” nut cases the way the Nazi flags and Confederate flags supposedly do.
Is it a trope when it’s true?
The only responsible response to the request is “Piss off, ya wankers”
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Jordan should subpoena every one of them and question their motives and who supported their campaigns. You will find that most if not all of them have ties to BLM. Too much of a coincidence.
Why bother with such unproductive trivialities?
A sudden onset of heart attacks, kidney failures and strokes will do a more permanent job. It’s just vax residual at work
Then maybe we’ll find out who’s behind BLM.
Wow. If I read the above properly the woman was shot by her brother. The flag was incidental although her decades of public support for the gay community may have been part of their issues.
Apparently the brother angle is fake news.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/final-moments-revealed-of-shop-owner-gunned-down-over-pride-flag/
The man who shot and killed a beloved California shop owner over a Pride flag outside her boutique seemed to pause before grabbing his gun — as if he had second thoughts before opening fire.
Travis Ikeguchi, 27, the son of a cop, tore down the rainbow flag outside clothing store Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen on Friday, shot Laura “Lauri” Carleton and fled — but was later killed in an exchange of gunfire with police, officials said. Meanwhile, more details have emerged about the killer’s troubled life and fringe views.
Ikeguchi was the son of a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, but wrote often about his mistrust of law enforcement — and even considered killing a cop, the LA Times reported. He moved to California with his sister and mother after his parents split in a messy 2018 divorce that left him with animosity toward his dad, according to the news outlet.
In 2019, Ikeguchi wrote that he and his mother lived in their car and were struggling to make ends meet, so he started a GoFundMe campaign asking for money for housing and food.
WTH? Her brother killed her? I can’t find anything on this. Does anyone have a source?
Thanks. I see reading elsewhere it was not her brother.
Yes, the MSM is truly a malevolent force. It is not just that they support Democrats, they have done so for 6-7 decades. It is that they have changed their whole approach to journalism from inquiry to activism and propaganda. The single-mindedness with which they suppress news that goes against the progressive pieties is what makes them subversive and dangerous.
“... the decades-old trope that links gay and transgender people to child abusers who want to ‘groom’ or sexualize children,”
Catholics perverted the word of God in multiple ways. Large organized religious groups are responsible for a multitude of sins. The Bible states that religious groups should remain within the local community.
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