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Hi, this is Free Thinking through the fourth Turning. My name is Sacha Stone the New York Times Big Lie A woman did not commit mass murder in Canada. That was not one of us. In 1984, George Orwell wrote, freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. The New York Times is no longer free to say what is true. They're compelled to lie either by their newfound fundamentalism, fear of their readers and subscribers, or pressure from the strident activists who police thought and speech in our new woke order. We can't let them get away with it. Not this time. The Suspect it looks like a real headline. A Search for the Truth Before Mass Killing, mental breakdowns, and Online Violent Extremism, the suspect in the British Columbia shooting had long been posting about mental health problems, substance abuse and a fascination with weapons and online violence. So far, so good. But a few paragraphs in and it's clear that the New York Times has crossed the Rubicon. On Tuesday afternoon, Jesse Van Roetsellaer, 18, grabbed two firearms from her home and, the authorities in British Columbia said killed her mother and 11 year old brother. Then she traveled a mile to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and killed five students and one educator before turning her weapon on herself. The mass shooting, which also left two children injured with gunshot wounds, has sent shockwaves across Canada, where such violence is rare and has devastated the small rural community of 2,400 people, end quote. Her home, she traveled before turning her weapon on herself. Was the shooter a woman? If so, wouldn't that be the lead? After all, it's rare for any woman to be pulled into violence online, let alone go on a shooting spree. Sure, there was Audrey Hale out in Tennessee, but according to the Times, she wasn't a she. Back in 2023, they awkwardly opted out of using any pronoun to describe Hale, adding this to their story. There was confusion about the shooter's gender identity in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Chief Drake said the shooter identified as transgender and officials used she and her to refer to the attacker. But according to a social media Post In a LinkedIn profile, the shooter appeared to identify as male in recent months, end quote. But by 2025, when Hale was no longer the only one, they made the decision to use preferred pronouns. Yes, even in the wake of a horrific shooting like the one in Minneapolis, as with Audrey Hale Massacred Children podcast listeners a picture of Robert Robin Westman as a 17 year old. The assailant filed a court document to change her first name to Robin from Robert. The document was also signed by her mother, Mary Grace Westman, who worked in the business office of the church for five years before retiring in 2021. The document noted that Ms. Westman identified as female and wants her name to reflect that identification. Using that logic, we'd have no choice but to conclude that two women had committed these acts of violence in Minneapolis and now in Canada, while one male went on a shooting spree in Tennessee. Make it make sense. New York Times what we're really talking about here is three transgender shooters who targeted children. Robin Westman himself was obsessed with them. For podcast listeners, a headline from the BBC Minneapolis School Attacker obsessed with idea of killing Children. If the latest school shooter in Tumblr Ridge targeted and killed children and was also transgender, you'd think that there might be something, anything that the Times could offer its readers instead of lying that the shooter was female. No, the shooter was male. And it matters. The truth matters. Biological reality matters, especially when we're talking about criminal profiling. For podcast listeners, a picture of Jesse von Root Soler it wasn't just the New York Times either, though they set the standard. It was CNN too. Quote the suspect in Canada's Tumblr Ridge mass shooting posted about guns and hunting on her YouTube channel and appear to have written about her struggles with mental health online. According to social media posts and the ap, the suspect in Tuesday's shooting in a remote Canadian town in British Columbia has been identified as 18 year old Jessie Van Routselaar. Authorities said she had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health. Eight people died in the shooting on Tuesday. Police initially said nine people had been killed. CIS white men no more. These white male shooters are given an extra layer of protection just by declaring themselves trans. The formerly hated CIS white males are magically transformed into women and become the center of attention, treated with sympathy and are above all, forgiven almost everything. Look no further than the New York Times to see how they've decided that the only demographic to fear is white men. For podcast listeners, a montage of headlines from the New York White extremist Ideology Drives Many Deadly shootings. Racists are recruiting. Watch your white sons. There are no lone wolves, a common trait among mass killers? Hatred toward women, Tucker Carlson White men and the lynch mob mentality. Mass shooters are all different, except for one thing. Most are men. The iconic man with a gun is a white man. Attacks by white extremists are growing. So are their connections. If any shooter who hailed from the right went on a rampage and killed kids. It would be the biggest story in the world for weeks, if not months. Everyone would have a convenient receptacle for their rage. Ah, but here, with their most protected, elevated, marginalized group responsible, they must divert that empathy and call a mass murderer a she, then bend over backwards to ensure no one demonizes this specific group, even if an obvious pattern is emerging. As the Times writes in the aftermath of the shooting, there has also been a focus on Ms. Van Rootseller's gender identity at a time when transgender issues have become a socially polarizing force. In a handful of high profile shootings in the United States in recent years, the perpetrator has been wrongly identified as transgender on message boards and social media, including in the assassination of Charlie Kirk last year. Fewer than one in 1,000 mass shooters over the past decade have been identified as transgender, according to Gun Violence Archive. Tyler Robinson might not have been transgender himself, but he fits the pattern regardless. He was by all accounts avenging the pain and suffering of his trans furry lover and wanted to silence Charlie Kirk, who he said spread too much hate and it could not be negotiated down. Even if this odd new type of killer does not represent real transgender people overall, it represents a new kind of influencer, a hybrid of social justice extremism, self pity and fringe losers who want Columbine level fame. And online, they're getting it. It's not the job of the New York Times to police the right. It's not their job to do the bidding of left wing activists either. It's their job to tell the truth. And in this story, they did not tell the truth about any of these three prominent cases of transgender shooters slaughtering children, choosing instead to use their preferred pronouns. Telling the truth is a dirty job, and it takes someone bold to get that job done. It takes someone like Bridget Fedisy who does not hold back.
