Topic: WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily isn't just exploiting the alleged manifesto by the Nashville shooter to smear all transgender people as wannabe massacre commiters. It also wants to use it to whine about poor, oppressed white people. Bob Unruh complained in a Nov. 13 article:
The shooter who gunned down three children and three adults earlier this year at the Covenant school in Nashville said, in her manifesto, she hated the victims' white skin, their light features, their "privilege," their "fancy schools," their "mop yellow hair" and the fact they were "cr*ckers."
But two key federal law enforcement agencies have refused to recognize the murders as a hate crime.
It's according to a report at the Federalist.
The publication reported it asked "the nation’s top federal law enforcement agencies, which had access to the notebook [shooter Audrey Haley's manifesto] ever since March 27, if either had plans to classify the shooting as an anti-white hate crime or political violence spurred on by the proliferation of left-wing racism in schools and government, the DOJ ignored the request and the FBI claimed it did not have a comment."
That, the report noted, "sharply contrasts how both department and agency have treated other race-based shootings."
For example, "When a gunman in Buffalo, New York, opened fire in a grocery store, killing 10 in 2022, the DOJ used the shooter’s racist social media posts as justification to deem the act 'a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism' worthy of several federal hate crime charges. The Justice Department extended the same treatment to Dylann Roof and the Texas mass shooter who killed 23 people at an El Paso Wal-Mart."
"Yet when it comes to investigating the Nashville shooting, which was rooted in the shooter’s disdain for people based on their skin color, as a hate crime against white Christians, the DOJ and FBI refuse," the report noted.
Note that Unruh is so sloppy that he couldn't even spell Audrey Hale's name correctly. He'salso repeated right-wing narratives about the massacre (while making sure not to reference the fact that Hale' possesion of guns made the massacre possible).Meanwhile, o thers have pointed out that those calling for the massacre to be a hate crime have voted against anti-hate crime laws. Ineeed, the Federalist has repeatedly lashed out at hate-crime laws.
Of course, Unruh failed to tell his readers about any of that. He's a stenographer, after all, not a journalist, and all he did here was rewrite a right-wing opinion piece and present it as "news."
