He’s a Mx
The person suspected of killing five and wounding 18 after opening fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs is nonbinary, their defense attorney wrote in court filings Tuesday.
Uproar in court!
Notice the punctilious “their defense attorney” – on the one hand homophobic mass murderer but on the other hand nonbinareeeeeeee, must get them there pronouns right.
Joseph Archambault and Michael Bowman, the state public defenders for suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, filed a slew of motions Tuesday and included a footnote about Aldrich’s identity.
“Anderson Aldrich is nonbinary,” the footnote states. “They use they/them pronouns, and for the purposes of all formal filings, will be addressed as Mx. Aldrich.”
Now what? How will they all deal? Whose idenninee outweighs whose?
Aldrich is being held on suspicion of murder and bias-motivated crimes in connection to the shooting at Club Q late Saturday night.
But what kind of bias? What kind of bias can he have? We’re told and told and told and TOLD that “LGBTQ+” is all one communineeee so how can he have a bias against his own communineeee?
Aldrich, who was injured after being attacked by the patrons who stopped the shooting, was released from a Colorado Springs hospital on Tuesday and booked into the El Paso County Jail.
They are scheduled to make their first court appearance virtually from the jail on Wednesday.
The idennineee police will be there to make sure no pronouns are insulted.
Hoo boy. This opens up possibilities for the defense. Since it has been established, I think, that the bar is more LGB than the rest of the alphabet soup, perhaps he was offended by feeling excluded? Maybe someone misgendered him when he was visiting once? If so, that is actual violence, isnt’t it? So the shooting could be construed as self defense?
I’d say no, not possible, but we’ve seen so much not possible get said anyway that I can’t honestly say it.
WARNING: Shit show dead ahead.
For some reason I get flashbacks to the Utøya massacre from July 22. 2011 (in which a certain Anders Behring Breivik earned his dubious “fame”). One of my most enduring memories from that dark day involves a lot of outraged Facebook posts jumping to conclusions about exactly who were responsible *cough*Muslims*cough* and what the consequences for Norwegian politics had to be (“Will people finally wake up to what the [right-wing populist, anti-immigration] Progress Party have been saying for all these years?!” etc.). One of my most enduring memories from the next day involves a lot of Facebook posts having been quietly deleted over night…
I’m seeing people expressing doubt about the suspect’s non-binary identity at this very moment. It’s shocking, shocking.
Self-identification is infallible except when it isn’t..
That last sentence reads as if the patrons who stopped the shooting will be appearing in court.
This is an interesting quandary. How to demand referring to they as “they,” while declare he is nae a troo enby.”
@Bjarte
Indeed. But to be fair, that hypothesis seemed at least a bit more plausible (assuming Islamist terrorists rather than Muslims) early in the day, when it was all about the bombing at the government headquarters. As I recall, there was very little about Utøya in the news for most of the day, and what little we heard, was very confusing and fragmentary. I remember being totally shocked to hear the death toll in the news when I woke up the next morning.
Harald
Indeed, there was nothing implausible about that hypothesis given the information that was available at the time. I freely admit it was my first guess as well. Until the news started coming in from Utøya it was also the leading hypothesis of the Police as well as the terrorism expert on TV. I even remember talking to a young Muslim (a few weeks later) who said that his first reaction at the time was “I hope it’s not Muslims”.
But nor was there anything inherently implausible about the hypothesis that this latest shooting incident was motivated by anti “LGBTQ+” sentiments or even “transphobia” (the rightwing kind, not feminists saying that sex is real, and it matters). All I am saying is that there’s something to be said for waiting until all the facts are in before making sweeping claims and assigning blame.
In the initial digging through the killer’s online tracks, was there the faintest whiff of ‘nonbinary-ism? Were ANY pronouns specified? Might this be a bit of theatre to mock the victims?
But according to the logic of self-ID, the sudden “discovery” of one’s EnBeeness, or Transness is perfectly legitimate and must be respected, centered, and validated. That won’t stop them from playing the “No True NB” card, though. They want it both ways, and they want it now. Trans activism has long since stopped seeing (if it ever saw to start with) the many contradictions in its position. It doesn’t matter if it makes sense, coheres or is consistent. Trans activists don’t need to convince anyone if they can browbeat and bully everyone into compliance. Better still if they can get others to do their bullying for them. Who needs vote and consultation and consent when you can bludgeon your way to your policy goals?
It is mildly shocking that a government is so willing to discredit itself by passing something as fundamentally opposed to reality as this bill. It’s like voting to annul gravity. Gravitation is never going to be brought to book, or appear in the dock. The world won’t give a shit, and people will keep falling down, even if you do lock up everyone who points this out unfortunate fact. Punishing the people who know how reality works, and arresting those who “calls it as they sees it” is all they’ll be able manage. They’ll run out of gaol cells and prisons long before Reality changes its mind. The world will go on its merry way, producing only two sexes of humans, without regard to Scottish Law, which can only prosecute recalcitrant humans rather than a blithely unconcerned biology.
As like as not it’s a cynical ploy to deflect hate crime charges… Not a bad move for the defense. Of course it might put a dent in self-ID in the process….
@Bjarte
Well, yes and no. As long as you put the blame on women, you are quite safe – either all those nasty TERFs are responsible (and JKR practically put the gun in his hand) or we will learn that his mother did not love him enough, his girlfriend left him or something along those lines. In any case, it will be a woman’s fault in the end.
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