Uvalde - the followup

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"Report reveals Evergreen High School shooter's alarming online activity linked to violence, white supremacy" #180​

Casual amateur analysis might conclude this murder was politically motivated. It may well be! BUT !
Does it make sense to assume it?

If the shooter decided what was missing from his own life was the excitement of being the target of a manhunt,
and realized murdering a non-celebrity might reduce his own publicity yield,
and this particular celebrity was nearby (no need to deal with the TSA)
wouldn't acting on that scenario produce similar behavior?

 

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Casual amateur analysis might conclude this murder was politically motivated. It may well be!

The important take away from this isn't whether the murder was politically motivated but that the shooter was not liberal/gay/trans or whatever but was, instead, hard core right wing.

BTW, I'm reading posts on another board where someone is claiming that the left wants the shooter to be a liberal and the same poster is absolutely adamant that he's not right wing but is instead some sort of liberal fruitcake.

 

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The murderer was young? 22?
Wouldn't surprise me if his worldview in general & his politics in particular was a bit of a jumble.

"The important take away from this isn't whether the murder was politically motivated but that the shooter was not liberal/gay/trans or whatever but was, instead, hard core right wing.
BTW, I'm reading posts on another board where someone is claiming that the left wants the shooter to be a liberal and the same poster is absolutely adamant that he's not right wing but is instead some sort of liberal fruitcake." S2 #182

Bias confirmation, quite common.
It's early in this investigation. I can wait and see what facts are disclosed.

"BTW, I'm reading posts on another board where someone is claiming that the left wants the shooter to be a liberal and the same poster is absolutely adamant that he's not right wing but is instead some sort of liberal fruitcake." S2 #182

Such adamance sometimes results from knowing the weakness of ones own position, therefore trying to compensate for implausibility with feigned, or factually unsupported certitude.
Didn't Cook have a reputation for diverging from the truth? If so, should we be surprised by it in his adherents?

"The important take away from this isn't whether the murder was politically motivated but that the shooter was not liberal/gay/trans or whatever but was, instead, hard core right wing." S2 #182

Bigots may believe their bias confirmed in this case.
Is it not equally true that LGB are (independent of gender) a cross-section of the population, and thus also include doctors, lawyers, and murderers?