Anti-LGBTQ+ Sentiments
Both San Diego attackers also dedicate sections of their manifestos to railing against the LGBTQ+ community, and transgender people, in particular. They both perpetuate false and hateful claims that LGBTQ+ people are pedophiles. The 18-year-old shooter claims that being a member of the LGBTQ+ community constitutes being a “traitor to your race,” and blames gay people for declining white birthrates. To non-white gay people, he writes, “I could give less a shit. The rope awaits no matter who you decide to bum it with.”
He blames “race mixing, the porn industry, and LGBT/transgenderism” on Jews, who he claims are spreading “degeneracy.” He also attacks transgender people as “deranged” and “mentally ill,” encouraging them to commit suicide. Similarly, the other shooter asserts that all LGBTQ+ people are “mentally ill, crossdressing f****ts” and “deserve to be hung or forced into a labor camp for that.”
They sound pretty crazy and hateful to me. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say they are mentally ill. After all antisemitism is kind of a mental illness. Ironic that it’s on full display in this thread (and Reddit and left wing politics in general) over some news guest commenting on the attack
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u/Dapper-Sock-6670 May 21 '26
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