This meme is a fascinating look at how the modern left’s mind works.
▪️For years, it’s been known that the Matthew Shepard (not Shepherd) murder was over drugs, not a random anti-gay hate crime. Both of Shepard’s assailants were on a week long meth bender prior to the murder, Shepard himself was a meth addict and dealer, and reportedly had a sexual relationship with one of his attackers, who was bisexual.
▪️After his brutal murder, the assailants headed to Shepard’s house to finish the robbery, but got sidetracked and ended up brutally assaulted two other young men, which is where they were arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1
▪️Yet the initial hate-crime narrative stuck in left-wing activist’s minds, and they never updated their priors, like in so many similar cases. They still think the Shepard murder was a result of some rednecks attacking a kid because he was gay, so this meme make sense in their minds.
▪️Even though Laramie isn’t a small, conservative town. It’s the 3rd largest city in Wyoming and the most liberal, the University of Wyoming is there. Which doesn’t exactly make it Berkeley, but it’s not your stereotypical small town.
▪️Additionally, Laramie residents were horrified at the murder and the assailants were immediately arrested and convicted of first degree murder. The defense even tried using the gay panic angle in hopes of finding sympathetic jurors (which helped fueled the false hate crime narrative) but it backfired. Later, one of the murderer’s girlfriends admitted it was false, she only said it because she thought it would help his case.
▪️So the “small town” of Laramie acted with swift justice against the murderers. This meme makes no sense on any account if you know the facts, but it does make sense in left wing activist’s heads because of the narratives they’ve constructed. It’s instructive to understand this.
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
