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RWW: The Worst Right Wing Reactions To Yesterday's YouTube Shooting
A woman shot and injured three people before killing herself inside YouTube’s California headquarters yesterday afternoon. In the hours following the attack, it was reported that the shooter, identified as Nasim Aghdam, had posted content online expressing frustration that YouTube had cut off ad revenue from her channel.
Right-wing pundits, many of whom have spent the last few months intensifying their rhetoric against YouTube’s enforcement of community guideline policies, claimed that the shooter was a “left-wing” activist because she had reportedly posted about animal rights and veganism on social media. CRTV host Steven Crowder claimed in a since-deleted tweet that the shooter was a “militant leftist PETA activist.” The Gateway Pundit identified her as a “far left protester.” The white nationalist outlet Red Ice dedicated an entire video to claiming that the shooter was a “very advanced, interesting version of an SJW.”
While some right-wing outlets were working to portray the shooter as anything but conservative, the fringes of far-right were using the shooting to reinforce their ongoing narrative that media outlets reporting on the shooting had a secret agenda to negatively portray white people.
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter said that she expected that The New York Times would identify the shooter as a “white Iranian,” keeping in line with her accusations of anti-white bias in mainstream news coverage:
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Alt-right video blogger Paul Ray Ramsey –known to fans as “Ramzpaul”—said that a stock image that some media used to accompany stories about the shooter was chosen because “they initially wanted to spin this as a ‘white supremacist’ shooting”:
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Unhinged conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer urged her followers to archive the shooter’s personal profiles, claiming that the shooter “is a Jihadi and they want to cover it up”:
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But the most cringe-worthy reaction may have come from criminally unfunny comedian turned right-wing pundit Owen Benjamin, who wrote a song about the shooter:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/these-are-some-of-the-worst-right-wing-reactions-to-the-shooting-at-youtube-hq/
Right-wing pundits, many of whom have spent the last few months intensifying their rhetoric against YouTube’s enforcement of community guideline policies, claimed that the shooter was a “left-wing” activist because she had reportedly posted about animal rights and veganism on social media. CRTV host Steven Crowder claimed in a since-deleted tweet that the shooter was a “militant leftist PETA activist.” The Gateway Pundit identified her as a “far left protester.” The white nationalist outlet Red Ice dedicated an entire video to claiming that the shooter was a “very advanced, interesting version of an SJW.”
While some right-wing outlets were working to portray the shooter as anything but conservative, the fringes of far-right were using the shooting to reinforce their ongoing narrative that media outlets reporting on the shooting had a secret agenda to negatively portray white people.
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter said that she expected that The New York Times would identify the shooter as a “white Iranian,” keeping in line with her accusations of anti-white bias in mainstream news coverage:
<snip>
Alt-right video blogger Paul Ray Ramsey –known to fans as “Ramzpaul”—said that a stock image that some media used to accompany stories about the shooter was chosen because “they initially wanted to spin this as a ‘white supremacist’ shooting”:
<snip>
Unhinged conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer urged her followers to archive the shooter’s personal profiles, claiming that the shooter “is a Jihadi and they want to cover it up”:
<snip>
But the most cringe-worthy reaction may have come from criminally unfunny comedian turned right-wing pundit Owen Benjamin, who wrote a song about the shooter:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/these-are-some-of-the-worst-right-wing-reactions-to-the-shooting-at-youtube-hq/
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