A few days ago, blue-checked liberal journalist Eoin Higgins tweeted out the inside scoop on Ricky Gervais’ new “virulently transphobic” Netflix comedy special:
Ricky Gervais has a new comedy special coming out Tuesday.
Word is that Netflix sat on it for months because of how virulently transphobic it is—worse than Chappelle—but are releasing it anyway for fear of right-wing backlash.
— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 21, 2022
Higgins never revealed his source for that scoop, but apparently he’s got inside sources in quite a few places, including in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman murdered innocent children and teachers at Robb Elementary School.
See, somehow, Higgins learned that parents of Robb Elementary Students would potentially be subjected to “detention in U.S. concentration camps while checking if their kid is alive”:
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1529257356135215105
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1529257418747674625
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1529257454537781248
Shithole country
— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 25, 2022
More like sh*thole journalist.
This is, of course, a lie. https://t.co/Y5PLRqVDW6
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) May 25, 2022
It’s not just a lie, but it’s a blatantly obvious one. And yet it remains available for all to see and like and retweet.
The reason Border Patrol was at the school is because they were closest law enforcement, a Border Patrol officer *saved lives* by stopping the shooter. This town is not far from the border, BP presence isn't unusual.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 25, 2022
It’s not unusual for Eoin Higgins and his ilk to create and peddle baseless rumors in order to score the very cheapest of political points.
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1529474376994799616
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1529474378701983745
Eoin Higgins is the worst kind of journalist: he’s a shameless partisan activist who pretends to be a journalist.
3/ It's interesting to compare this to the also-apparently-false claim a bunch of wingnuts made that the shooter was trans (which smelled like a 4chan thing tbh). There's a subset of broken people who really just use tragedy to go after whoever their perceived enemies are.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) May 25, 2022
Anyone who would rush to politicize a mass shooting instead of mourning the loss of life deserves to be run out on a rail. It’s nothing short of soulless.
And perfectly acceptable according to the Twitter Truth Police.
200,000 likes on a completely false Tweet trying to scare already traumatized parents… https://t.co/QuAnHcEzuV
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 25, 2022
But remember, Twitter doesn't allow misinformation!
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 25, 2022
Of course not.
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