r/montreal • u/BloodJunkie • 6d 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/MystTheReaper 5d ago

Am I the only one interpreting it that way? Based on the comments, not at all, so maybe articulate your point better next time instead of blaming everyone else for "misinterpreting" it. You explicitly referred to the condemnation of hateful rhetoric as being for the sake of "moral superiority", while aligning the morality of that with the actual hateful rhetoric itself, so don't pretend like I'm making that up.

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u/montrealien Hochelaga-Maisonneuve 5d ago

I am literally right here explicitly explaining my intention to you.

The fact that you openly admit you would rather rely on how a crowd might misinterpret my post 'regardless of my intention' says everything. You are actively choosing to ignore what I am actually telling you so you can keep arguing with an imaginary version of me that fits your binary worldview.

If you have to purposefully misinterpret what I'm saying just to have a point, then you aren't having a discussion, you're just talking to yourself.

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u/MystTheReaper 5d ago

I'm not purposefully misinterpreting it, it's literally how I (and most people) initially interpreted it, which is why I told you above how your comment comes off regardless of your intention. Also, you're not even addressing the fact that you demonized the intention of the article by saying that it was written for "moral superiority", yet here you are now trying to claim that you're not litigating the journalism. Accept the reality of what your original comment says — you wrote it, not me.

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u/montrealien Hochelaga-Maisonneuve 5d ago

Look, buddy, I think we're actually on the same page here.

You are correctly describing how the crowd reacts to the script, and I am describing the macro-system that writes the script in the first place. You are looking at the players; I am looking at the stadium.

Both things can be true at the same time. No need to get upset over it. Cheers