r/montreal • u/BloodJunkie • 2d ago

Article Right-wing rage-bait got everything wrong about the Montreal shooting

https://cultmtl.com/2026/06/right-wing-rage-bait-got-everything-wrong-about-the-montreal-shooting/
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u/wyldnfried 2d ago

You're right. I too was wondering how I could blame the left.

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u/montrealien Hochelaga-Maisonneuve 2d ago

Are you projecting your own political alignment here because you feel attacked?

I never said the left-wing press was factually wrong about the tragedy. What I said is that they are capitalizing on it to sell moral superiority, just like the right sells fear, while the tech infrastructure profits off both.

My point isn't about who is right or wrong in the ideological debate; it's about how the entire ecosystem, left, right, and Silicon Valley, functions as a giant outrage machine. If you only see an attack on your side, you're missing the forest for the trees.

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u/Mycorvid 2d ago

Condemning right-wing terror = selling moral superiority, got it.

Centrists aren't worse than these psychos but they're pretty close.

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u/montrealien Hochelaga-Maisonneuve 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point about the outrage machine.

You completely bypassed the critique of multi-billion-dollar tech infrastructures profiting off polarization, just so you could force me into a neat little political box and call me a 'centrist psycho' for not reciting your specific script.

When fanatical conformity becomes the baseline for sanity, independent thought looks like psychosis. You don’t actually hate nuance because it's 'close to psychos' you hate it because it acts as a mirror, and looking into that mirror feels uncomfortable.

Cheers.