How Disinformation About the Minnesota Shooting Spread Like Wildfire on X

[u/wiredmagazine]

https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-minnesota-shooting-x/

[u/bliceroquququq]

Theres no evidence the shooting was a deliberate attack against Catholics.

I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone split hairs so finely. It was a deliberate attack and it was against Catholics, but your claim is that there is "no evidence it was a deliberate attack against Catholics", and the very suggestion that it might be is "disinformation".

M'kay.

When Dylann Roof murdered 9 African Americans at a black church in Charleston in 2015, is it also unclear to you whether he was deliberately targeting African Americans, or if he just happened to pick a convenient place to shoot people at?

When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, was he really expressing antigovernmental sentiment by murdering 168 people, or was the parking situation just really handy to leave an explosive-laden truck next to?

When 9/11 happened, were the hijackers truly expressing anti-American sentiment, or was it maybe just that the World Trade Center was the simplest building to crash multiple commercial airliners into?

Any sort of mental gymnastics to avoid facing reality I guess. On-brand, really.

[u/Big_Dinner3636 → u/bliceroquququq]

The shooter chose Annunciation because they had a history there and knew the location. Nothing in their manifesto or video expressed an intention to target Catholics specifically. Their ideology was just to kill and the school provided an easy target which they had an extensive knowledge of.

Every example you mentioned explicitly stated why they were attacking where they were attacking and who specifically they were attacking, so your retort is just so disingenuous, it really can't even be taken seriously.

Dylann Roof explicitly wanted to kill black people to start a race war.

Timothy McVeigh explicitly wanted to kill federal employees, specifically ATF and FBI agents, over Waco and Ruby Ridge.

The 9/11 hijackers explicitly wanted to attack US symbols of American economic and military power.

[u/bliceroquququq → u/Big_Dinner3636]

They also knew the layout of the local Starbucks, the local grocery store, and the local shopping mall.

Why not any of those places?

Why did Audrey Hale go murder nine year olds at their former Christian school?

[u/Big_Dinner3636 → u/bliceroquququq]

The shooter explicitly had a desire to kill children and idolized mass shooters, school shooters specifically. This is all public knowledge, my guy.

[u/subLimb → u/Big_Dinner3636]

In 2025 we are now accused of "splitting hairs" if we apply even the most rudimentary amount of nuance or critical thinking to our understanding of a situation. Wild times.

[u/Aman-Ra-19 → u/subLimb]

More like you’ll propagandize and lie and anything. The guy wrote mocking slogans against catholics and then killed them and their children at a mass. Reddit just refuses to accept Christian’s could be the target of hate.