edit: posted a manifesto youtube video, has white letters written on their guns/ammo, similar to Trentan (NZ mosque shooter), names of other mass shooters written, but there is also “Israel must fall” written. Fuck, the right/Zionist is gonna have a field day with this one.
The reactionaries are spouting it. True or not the damage is being done and they’ll continue pushing that angle as school shootings spark cries for gun control and this gives them an excellent chance to do an uno reverse and cry for cracking down on trans people and decrying how it’s propaganda that turns perfectly straight kids gay and trans and satanic (because Catholics targeted), shifting the blame from guns, from an alienated, hyper-individualistic, barbaric, consumption culture with easy access to weapons to “woke trans”.
Looks like they were also Russian, maybe immigrant given their manifesto was posted in Russian so they can talk up anti-immigrant talking points and the necessity of ICE, add on the anti-zionist points and this is a a triple whammy for them in shifting blame and casting immigrants, trans people, and anti-zionists as violent criminal terrorists. Add on the bonus that it was a Catholic school targeted and they’ll keep harping on this because Christians LOVE feeling persecuted from a distance and pushing the idea of how their victims are so mean and hurtful to them.
Court documents show that when she was 17, Westman applied in Dakota County to change her birth name from Robert to Robin. That request was granted in January of 2020.
The only thing I have seen is that the shooter changed their name from Robert to Robin and they have long hair, but nothing about them being trans is being reported yet.
Robert is a masculine name generally speaking and one given to AMAB types generally speaking. Yet the news refers to the shooter as she that’s something in support of this idea unfortunately along with the fact pronouns are being avoided in some of the news reporting and the name change.
I’ve since found this:
The shooter’s mother also applied to change her child’s name from Robert to Robin in Dakota County in 2019, according to court documents obtained by FOX 9. According to the name change filing, Westman identified “as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”
Someone better at sifting through court records can maybe find this though it looks like unless it was digitized by a third party you likely need to go to the records place in person or at the very least submit an online form and pay a fee to get this kind of info.
This is pretty bad. This trans person had some parental support to change their name from their mother as a minor and went on to kill people, we can’t say what else happened in their life or how much support they really had but the reactionaries will harp on that fact until time ends as proof that embracing trans kids identities leads to violence when of course evidence shows not supporting trans kids leads to suicides (what reactionaries would prefer of course). This, the other shooting at a religious school in Kentucky by a trans-man a few years back, they’ll say its a part of “discrimination” and violence against Christians and drive them into an even further frothing frenzy to criminalize trans people, classify being trans as a mental illness and harp on denying mentally ill people guns as the solution. And that’s part of the whole “woke pink-hairs are mentally ill” push to put such people in camps (to be slaves doing farm-work deported migrants used to do and/or illusory re-shoring) and not just deny them guns for self-defense. UGH.
I hate everything about this story, but yeah looks like things are looking that way as more evidence is coming to light. Honestly the whole thing is ridiculous though to focus on the shooter’s identity, cis white men can commit mass shootings and it is always “lone-wolf mental illness” excuse for them, but any minority does the same and it becomes a backlash wave of ire towards those communities. I am especially sensitive to this one, because I’m trans and in Minneapolis and not looking forward to the extra hate and harassment inevitably coming towards us in the coming days and weeks.
it appears the shooter is trans
edit: posted a manifesto youtube video, has white letters written on their guns/ammo, similar to Trentan (NZ mosque shooter), names of other mass shooters written, but there is also “Israel must fall” written. Fuck, the right/Zionist is gonna have a field day with this one.
Where did you see this?
It’s all over Twitter as you can imagine. Completely unverified, there’s been no official identification at this point.
Group chats are talking about it
I think it’s been confirmed at this point?
Not feeling great friend
The reactionaries are spouting it. True or not the damage is being done and they’ll continue pushing that angle as school shootings spark cries for gun control and this gives them an excellent chance to do an uno reverse and cry for cracking down on trans people and decrying how it’s propaganda that turns perfectly straight kids gay and trans and satanic (because Catholics targeted), shifting the blame from guns, from an alienated, hyper-individualistic, barbaric, consumption culture with easy access to weapons to “woke trans”.
Looks like they were also Russian, maybe immigrant given their manifesto was posted in Russian so they can talk up anti-immigrant talking points and the necessity of ICE, add on the anti-zionist points and this is a a triple whammy for them in shifting blame and casting immigrants, trans people, and anti-zionists as violent criminal terrorists. Add on the bonus that it was a Catholic school targeted and they’ll keep harping on this because Christians LOVE feeling persecuted from a distance and pushing the idea of how their victims are so mean and hurtful to them.
Their Russian is pretty garbled, so not a native speaker.
Source?
edit: looks like local news is reporting it.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/shooter-identified-in-minneapolis-catholic-school-shooting/89-bafd06bc-fafe-4187-ae44-64ed0b2fd138
The only thing I have seen is that the shooter changed their name from Robert to Robin and they have long hair, but nothing about them being trans is being reported yet.
Robin isn’t even an exclusively feminine name either (E.G. Robin Williams), that’s the only evidence available that the shooter is allegedly trans?
Robert is a masculine name generally speaking and one given to AMAB types generally speaking. Yet the news refers to the shooter as she that’s something in support of this idea unfortunately along with the fact pronouns are being avoided in some of the news reporting and the name change.
I’ve since found this:
Someone better at sifting through court records can maybe find this though it looks like unless it was digitized by a third party you likely need to go to the records place in person or at the very least submit an online form and pay a fee to get this kind of info.
This is pretty bad. This trans person had some parental support to change their name from their mother as a minor and went on to kill people, we can’t say what else happened in their life or how much support they really had but the reactionaries will harp on that fact until time ends as proof that embracing trans kids identities leads to violence when of course evidence shows not supporting trans kids leads to suicides (what reactionaries would prefer of course). This, the other shooting at a religious school in Kentucky by a trans-man a few years back, they’ll say its a part of “discrimination” and violence against Christians and drive them into an even further frothing frenzy to criminalize trans people, classify being trans as a mental illness and harp on denying mentally ill people guns as the solution. And that’s part of the whole “woke pink-hairs are mentally ill” push to put such people in camps (to be slaves doing farm-work deported migrants used to do and/or illusory re-shoring) and not just deny them guns for self-defense. UGH.
I hate everything about this story, but yeah looks like things are looking that way as more evidence is coming to light. Honestly the whole thing is ridiculous though to focus on the shooter’s identity, cis white men can commit mass shootings and it is always “lone-wolf mental illness” excuse for them, but any minority does the same and it becomes a backlash wave of ire towards those communities. I am especially sensitive to this one, because I’m trans and in Minneapolis and not looking forward to the extra hate and harassment inevitably coming towards us in the coming days and weeks.