. @QOrigins & I have talked about this, but I’m kind of constantly blown away by the conspiracy theory parallels between 1/6 & the Tulsa Massacre. I wasn’t aware of this specific theory until today... https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1359534387818336257

“People online saying it could be antifa dressed as MAGA people,’ one friend wrote, arguing it was really ‘BLM and antifa people’ and citing a debunked story that a busload of antifascists had been spotted at the U.S. Capitol.” In Tulsa conspiracy theories spread like wildfire...

Immediately after the massacre, the violence was blamed on Blacks, arguing that Black residents were the instigators, had attacked first, & had killed as many white men as the white mob had killed Black men. The fire was said to have spread because of bombs that Black residents..

had been stockpiling. None of this is true. An additional conspiracy theory spread immediately after the massacre (via newspapers and word of mouth) that hundreds or thousands—depending on the source—of armed Blacks had gathered in a nearby town and were planning to storm Tulsa..

That conspiracy theory resulted in deaths, including one where a white woman on a drive with her friends was thought to be Black and was shot. If I’m remembering correctly, she was shot by a man in a crop duster who was conducting surveillance of the roads...

watching for the Black *mob.* Like the bus load of antifa & BLM activists, the function of the conspiracy theories was to reverse reality so that attackers become defenders & to lay the groundwork for future violence.