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Leaving aside his neck doing that thing for no reason, I have no idea what his plan was with this. The question was in context of trans mass shooters, which aren't a big segment of either option. What was he even trying to say?
He was setting up for the funniest punchline of all time
It fucking landed. I still laugh thinking about it
Literal banger
a mic drop, if you will
a legendary tight five (seconds)
He was trying to deflect to racism when someone called out that his idea that trans people are a danger on the basis of "too many" shooters being trans is ridiculous.
He was about to get owned in the marketplace of ideas. He regularly "lost" debates to college students at these events, and these sort of non-sequiters were a tactic he used to throw off opponents when they were making a good point.
I just assume he wanted to drop the dogwhistle for the hogs and for the bait, analyzing it from the lense of a formal debate will lead you nowhere.
I suppose he was going to make some sort of argument like "Most mass shootings are done by black people, but we don't count them we just call them gang violence" but instead he got Proven Wrong
He was too used to it being something they could edit before going out so it would either not make the cut or changed enough to make him still come out on top.
That and he had absolutely no convictions other than getting talking points out