Posted on 03/23/2021 1:05:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
Feverishly pushed fake news to amplify “white supremacy” moral panic.
Leftists across Twitter, many of them journalists, scrambled to delete tweets after they falsely claimed the Boulder mass shooter, an Islamist from Syria who reportedly had ISIS sympathies, was “white.”
Earlier today, the gunman was revealed as Ahmad Al-Issa, a migrant from Syria who routinely complained about Donald Trump, “racism” and “Islamophobia” on his Facebook page, which was swiftly deleted.
Other reports also suggest that Al-Issa had ISIS sympathies and had planned to return to Syria.
However, innumerable journalists and other leftist commentators were embarrassed after prematurely claiming that the gunman was white in an effort to amplify their contrived moral panic about “white supremacy.”
“In America, if you’re white, no matter how many people you kill you’ll be taken into custody alive,” tweeted author John Pavlovitz. “We really need to ban angry white guys with guns,” he added before deleting both tweets.
BLM activist Meena Harris also deleted a tweet that screeched, “White men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.”
Twitter allows verified users like @meenaharris to peddle wild disinformation about shootings/terror attacks in real time.
If I did this, I’d be suspended immediately. pic.twitter.com/dJHqyPazgG
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) March 23, 2021
In her follow up explanation, Harris said, “I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.”
I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting. I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.
— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) March 23, 2021
This is obviously an attempt to imply that whites are overrepresented in mass shootings, despite the fact that, according to Statista, “Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole.”
Statista: "Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole." https://t.co/6vXrPdE9Gb pic.twitter.com/oTYkIY39og
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 23, 2021
Twitter itself also spread misinformation by featuring a trending panel which described the Boulder shooter as a white male.
The "white" guy who is called Ahmad. pic.twitter.com/obP0k3xU6G
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 23, 2021
Another journalist who describes his role as “Debunking misinformation/fake news,” literally spread the same misinformation and fake news.
.@RizviUzair: "Debunking misinformation/fake news"#Boulder pic.twitter.com/lkMbHncVvH
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) March 23, 2021
After claiming that the shooter wasn’t killed by cops because he was white, upon his identity being revealed, Amy Siskind subsequently demanded that people stop talking about it.
when you find out the shooter’s name is Ahmad Al-Issa but you’re woke pic.twitter.com/RQE3wyhqjr
— Ashley StClair 🇺🇸 (@stclairashley) March 23, 2021
Numerous other leftists claimed the shooter was white before his identity was made public.
This narrative really isn't going to age well. pic.twitter.com/8qX8to0p2K
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 23, 2021
pic.twitter.com/W39A9GNBcD
— CheckmarksPostingLs (@CheckmarkLs) March 23, 2021
pic.twitter.com/P1X5TySBy6
— I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) March 23, 2021
This didn't age well. The shooter has been identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Al-Issa. pic.twitter.com/G1wNOtMfgF
— LivePDDave 🇺🇸 🚨 🥊 (@LivePDDave1) March 23, 2021
Ahmad Al-Issa. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
Be prepared for the barrage of “not all Arabs are terrorists” tweets from the people below: #Boulder pic.twitter.com/bz4iERczCn
— I Am Leah (@Bossy_Leah) March 23, 2021
Others are even doubling down, claiming that Middle Eastern men called Ahmad are white.
Islamists from the Middle East called Ahmad are now counted as white. We can't catch a break! https://t.co/Bk1BH8rdlw
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 23, 2021
Achmed ain’t white?
Sort of a typical liberal.
As was predicted by some here. The lefties calling Achmed Al-Issa “white” — same way they called the man St. Skittles attacked a “white Hispanic”
Knee-jerk reactions by knee-pad wearing jerks................
The picture they are using would make anyone make you think he was a white guy. Rolled him out in his undies. Looked like a beer swilling beer belly redneck. Hmmm I resemble that.
George Zimmerman suddenly turned white
Stand bye.....
In hours if not less he will be a “White Muslim”
Glad all of these leftists hate/lie tweets were saved.
Not that it matters to @jack/Twitter.
Funny how they would readily ban a white guy, but they have problem banning a Syrian for doing the very thing that they would ban the white guy for...
actually the majority of the mass killings in the US are not carried out by white men.
The government’s official definition of “white” is: “A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.” So, yep, another white guy. /s
Notice Biden said we have to breathlessly race to grab guns (before the emotional hysteria cools off) and he will use executive orders to do so.
Note: we always want the truth about school shooters to state the guy was mentally ill but media and Dems want it to
just be part of what’s wrong with white America. Now they are rushing to add “mentally ill” on Drudge and elsewhere. Hypocrites. All the bloodthirsty types in ISIS and other Islamic terrorist movements are just who they are, not individual psychopaths. They are following the Koran against infidels.
I am so glad this guy is an anti-Trump Muslim freak.
He was Asian, since Syria is in Asia.
Too late, most all of them were saved. I understand some people are looking to see if any of those nasty racist statements are connected to those serving in a, “Public or elected capacity”.
Really? My first thought upon seeing the suspect was he was possibly an Arab/middle easterner.
[Glad all of these leftists hate/lie tweets were saved.]
Sounds like Twitchy(?) needs to spring into action.
I believe they’re the ones that get to this stuff.
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