Fox News host Jesse Watters claims 'White privilege propaganda' caused Nashville school shooting that killed 6
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Fox News' Jesse Watters blamed propaganda related to "White privilege" for the deadly mass shooting that took place in March in a Nashville Catholic school.
The individual responsible for the shooting, later identified as Audrey Hale, a transgender male, had left behind a leaked manifesto that disclosed their purported motive for the school shooting, in which six people lost their lives.
Hale cited their anger towards White privilege as the reason behind the attack.
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Jesse Watters criticizes media for not investigating Hale
The Primetime host asserted that the media avoided delving into Hale's motivation for the crime due to their transgender identity.
Watters claimed, "Well, the mass shooter was transgender so the media never investigated the motive. The media actually apologized to the dead mass shooter."
He proceeded to criticize a post shared by The New York Times, which highlighted that several officials had erroneously used the pronouns "she/her" when referring to Hale, who identified as a man.
"Yeah! The Times apologized for misgendering a mass murderer but hasn't apologized to Israel for accusing them of bombing a hospital," Watters said.
It is important here to note that while Fox News hosts have repeatedly brought up the case of the Gaza hospital bombing, claiming that the IDF was not involved, it remains unproven whether Israel or Hamas was responsible for the disaster.
What Watters later labeled as the "Transgender Manifesto" was partially leaked by controversial and conservative podcast host Steven Crowder, who had reportedly acquired it from one of the involved detectives.
Jesse Watters claims criticism of White privilege is 'dangerous'
The Fox host believed that the FBI decided to censor and not release the manifesto as it cited "White privilege" as one of the reasons that caused Hale to kill three children and three adults.
"Primetime knows this: Pundits, academics and diversity consultants have been pumping society's brains with White privilege propaganda for years now," Watters went on to say.
He also added that efforts made towards increasing awareness about racial differences and discrimination could lead to cases like this school shooting.
"With CRT (Critical Race Theory), class warfare, elevating the status of transgenderism into a special protected class, that requires the unraveling of Western civilization. It's time that we scrutinize the dangerous psychological effects that this has and whether it is fueling violence instead of fighting it."
Trans communities are repeatedly threatened in American society in both subtle and outright ways. While what Hale did is absolutely condemnable, Watters repeatedly attacked them for their trans identity.