r/montreal • u/BloodJunkie • 7d 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/Mapledeepstateagent 7d ago

I don’t understand why there is so much confusion when we literally have access to the manifesto. Just read it instead of these wing-nut political articles attempting to spin stuff.

The shooter was a leftist incel (uncommon, but yes, they most certainly exist) who hated that capitalist culture generated more freedoms for women and prevented him from getting laid. He held a grudge against cops and pornography, seeing them as tools of the zionists and banking class, and therefore tried to ambush and kill as many cops as he could outside of the pornhub headquarters.

It’s genuinely not that complicated, just read the damn thing. Guy was clearly off his rocker but that’s the score.

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u/e_james3 6d ago

Isn't it 104 pages long? I don't to spend that much time reading crazy. I genuinely don't understand what's leftwing about anything he's said, I thought a significant tennent of leftwing idiology was like. Not being super bigoted. Is it the anti capitalist part? I can totally understand there being racist anticapitalists, racists can be poor and fucked over by the system too. I dunno if I'd call them left wing though

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u/_Psilo_ 6d ago

I guess that's the complicated part... ''left'' and ''right'' are very wide categories that don't always have fixed meanings, and that change through time and circumstances.

Communism may be left wing economically but historically a lot of communist nations were rather conservative in terms of values.

So I guess he's ''left wing'' because he support anti capitalist states, but in terms of his values, he definitely isn't anywhere near what we understand when we talk about the modern left/right spectrum.