Let’s look at the Nashville trans shooter’s “manifesto”
A right-wing leak is mostly just sad
On March 27, 2023, the 28-year-old Aiden Hale walked into a Christian school in Nashville and started shooting. Afterward, there was talk of a “manifesto.”
It was widely speculated in right-wing circles to be a “woke” call-to-arms. Today, three pages from notebooks Aiden kept were leaked, as right-wing commentators are saying it’s exactly what they feared.
Is that so? Let’s take a look.
It’s not clear that Aiden wrote a “manifesto.”
That such a document existed was indicated by one anonymous source who claimed a document was a “blueprint on total destruction.”
What police said they found was a suicide note, two memoirs, twenty journals, and various ‘notes’. This seems to have been some kind of large autobiographical project.
A local news reporter says he’s told the leaked pages are not representative of the whole. He posts to X:
“Multiple sources have told me that the selective leak of three pages of the #CovenantSchool shooting ‘manifesto’ is EXTREMELY misleading. People who have…
