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Jesse this, Jesse that. It would be like saying Adolf instead of Hitler or on a smaller scale would be like talking about Paul Bernardo and saying Paul. And Paul said this and Paul said that, or Clifford Olson and Cliff said this. It's so gross. Why are they doing that? You know why they're doing that. Back to the Star. Right Wing outlet, Juneau News ran an interview with the alleged shooter's family member who said the shooter was transgender. The name Juno used was different than the one eventually given by police. Speculation took off from there. Now, I think it's probably fair to call Juno News right wing, but I think they're pretty mainstream. Like I, I think they're sort of Pierre Polly of right wing, like 40% of the population right wing. They're not. Wouldn't call them radical. I just wouldn't. I. I like them right wing, but they're not crazy. They're pretty accurate. There's certainly no further out there on the right than the Star is on the left. So Juno News confirmed the facts with the murderer's family. That's called journalism. But the Star said they were supposed to wait until officials gave the green light to reporters to say that. Why would they wait? Because the Star was waiting for instructions. By the way, Juno confirmed the facts. The murderer, who is legally called Jesse Van Roetseller, actually went by the family name. They were multiple last names in the family went by Jesse Strang. So why would the police say, no, no, no, it's Jesse Roodsler when he went by Jesse Strang. I think it's obvious because Jesse Strang is the name the murderer used with his endless online rants about being transgender. I think the police didn't want people to Google the name he used online, and the Star agrees with that. I guess they're really mad that Juneau News is using the killer's name that he used online. Back to the story. That same evening, Tara Armstrong, the MLA for a central British Columbia riding who was elected as a conservative but is now independent, tweeted to almost 15,000 followers that there is, quote, an epidemic of transgender violence spreading across the west, citing Tumblr Ridge as the latest example. Yeah, how dare she have an opinion. As Norm MacDonald would say, maybe the murderer is the worst part here. Back to the story. This epidemic of violence will continue until we change our society's response to transgender ideology, she wrote. Armstrong did not respond to requests for an interview. Has transgender rights in general have come under fire in the United States? Far right commentators there have argued in recent years that transgender people commit a disproportionate share of crimes, a claim not borne out by statistics. Glad, a nonprofit US Based organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community, says there's no evidence of escalating violence committed by LGBTQ people, but points to a trend of social media accounts blaming transgender people before facts are known. But, but we know the facts here. That's. There's no blaming falsely here. He was transgender. He did do the murders. Back to the story. As of last fall, Fact Check.org calculated that less than 0.1% of shootings in the US had been committed by trans people since 2013. But by going back to 2013 and just all shootings, I think, I mean, transgenderism was really just getting started back then. I think you're cherry picking early, early data when transgenderism was before, transgenderism was weaponized both politically and enabled medically by pumping confused teams full of drugs and hormones. Now, of course, fewer than 1% of Americans are transgender, so of course the absolute number of shootings will be small. But even if these stats are right, even if the lobby groups, they quote, are convincing that it's not a disproportionate number of murders. So what is that the focus here? Like Norm MacDonald said, is that really the terrible thing here? That a politician said there's too much of this kind of violence, and a transgender lobby group said, no, there's not too much. There's just the normal amount of violence here? Does that make it better is that the star's point here? Back to the Star nevertheless, other posts spread a different message. In a post to Twitter Thursday night, the pleb reporter and influencer who recently attended the Federal Conservative Convention on a content creator pass what a weird attempt at guilt by association. Apologized to his 172,000 followers for posting pictures of a person he claimed was the shooter, but who was not. My point is that that's an error. Obviously not on purpose. Identifying the wrong person isn't great, but it's not a malicious political decision. It's not a commentary on transgenderism, but boy, they're working hard to discredit independent voices and to link it to the conservatives. He said he took down the tweet within minutes and had asked that other accounts do the same, adding that speed is never an excuse for inaccuracy. However, a screenshot at least appears to live on, having been shared by actor James woods, who sent it out to his 5 million followers. In it, the pleb referred to the person in the photos as a trans lunatic and said the RCMP was hiding the truth. The pleb declined an interview, but in a statement said that it was now known that the shooter was transgender. In fact, he argued both police and media had obscured I do not assert that all transgender people are inherently violent, and I have never said so, he wrote. Yet from my observation, media reporting has persistently and selectively downplayed cases involving trans identified individuals in mass shootings, as they have in this case. But doesn't he know he's not allowed to have that opinion? The only political opinion you're allowed to graft onto a horrific tragedy like this is the need to ban more guns. Mark Carney is headed to Tumblr Ridge. I'll bet you a dollar he talks about gun control because that's the good kind of politicizing a murder, isn't it? On Wednesday afternoon, police said that the person behind one of Canada's worst mass shootings was transgender. Speaking to media, RCMP deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald identified the shooter who killed family members at home before turning a gun on random students at a local school in Northern BC as 18 year old Jesse Van Ruutzler, saying she was born male but had transitioned six years ago. We're not hiding it, he said when pressed about the online speculation that had bubbled up in the day between the shooting and Wednesday's press conference. Hang on, they're not hiding it by calling the person a female in address. They weren't hiding it. That's what they said in their emergency cell phone message too. They weren't hiding it. Why are they lying? Why is the star enabling the lying? I will say this. We identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media, he added, before stressing that it was too early to say whether Van Roetzeler's gender identity had any correlation to the investigation. So you're respecting the political wishes of a mass murderer. That's what Jesse would want. I'm not going to keep reading. It's just more of the same running defense, not only for the murderer, but for transgenderism and the right kind of politicization. No time to talk about the victims, though. Really no time for them. Who cares about them? They're the problem here because they embarrass transgenderism, including the young children who were shot. No time to talk about vicious crime. You see, the real issue here is about the misgendering and about being anti trans, don't you know? Well, Juneau News is having a good week. Cosmon, Georgia, one of their contributors was the first to confirm that the murderer in northern B.C. was a transgender extremist. The rest of the media were following the RCMP line of using weird language like gun person or a female in address, but Juno News actually made phone calls late at night into the town and connected with neighbors and friends and family members. So good for Juneau News for getting that scoop. Juno News also is the publication in which our friend Melanie Bennett wrote. We're delighted to join her now to talk about some disturbing news in the province of Ontario. Melanie, great to see you. Congratulations to Juneau News on such a big week. I want to talk about two things that you've brought to our attention. The first is an essay you've written entitled Ontario Students to Learn About Antisemitism from Anti Israel Group. Tell me a little bit about that. I shouldn't be smiling or laughing. It's completely unfunny, but it's ridiculous. Tell me who will be teaching Ontario students about Jews.