No, he didn’t. Read the Denver Post story. Initial reports, including the one you linked to, were wrong. It’s often the case that the “first draft of history” contains errors, which is why it’s better to read things written enough time later to be corrected. The prosecutor in his case is quoted as debunking the rumor,…

Aren’t they? From the article above:

That doesn’t prove he wasn’t dogwhistling

Most reviews are positive, and it’s currently projected to have a quite large box office:

Holmes picked TDKR as a target because there would be a big crowd at its midnight premiere. The idea that he was “inspired” was a mistake that persists as a sort of urban legend and refuses to die after corrections were published. Yes, he had dyed hair, but it wasn’t the color of the Joker’s. He was wearing a tactical…

Do you truly believe that he was intentionally using coded language to speak to hate groups or potential mass shooters in that interview?

If anyone would like to know what Todd Phillips’ actual politics are, you can see his political donations here:

So I read the entire article on The Wrap that was referenced in your link and I can’t for the life of me see how Phillips was “dogwhistling” to anyone, let alone the alt-right. Did you see something that I missed?

What’s going to be fun, and I don’t know how people don’t see this coming from a mile away, is when Queen & Slim gets released and the other side of the mindless talking heads section starts weaving the same narrative about that film that is being weaved about The Joker and neither side is going to realize that they’re…

They’re tiptoeing riiiiight up to that line, and then feigning ignorance when called out about it. But that’s really what they’re saying even if they aren’t saying it. And I think it’s not only gross but also extremely bad for art. Unless an artist is explicitly pushing a message, I’m not interested in holding them…

So are we just going to shamelessly adopt NRA talking points and blame the entertainment industry for the batshit gun violence problem in the US? I mean, this doesn’t sound like a very good idea to me

Except he never did. 

Wrong. It’s been getting excellent reviews before that.

And they’re not wrong. What’s the difference how realistic the violence is or the state of the world? Nothing. It’s just because some “woke” chick wrote an seersucker calling Joker an incel hero for some reason. The funny thing is that she and journalists like her would be more culpable if something happens besides it…

Makes sense, the narrative around this movie has become so silly and overwrought.

When it comes to pearl clutching moral panic, the desire for censorship of anything they can read the wrong message into and equating art as some sort of dangerous mind control device, the left has very much turned into the right. This is exactly what the right did when I was a kid and the left railed against it. If…

I initially put in a joke because i don’t know what to say regarding this anymore. This really is an odd situation for me. Here we have a movie - that hasn’t been released yet - that’s had more written about it than probably all of the movies released this year.

Exactly, these people don’t bitch about torture porn movies and torture happens every day somewhere in the world.

Weren’t there like... two Ted Bundy movies this year? And a couple of Charles Manson ones? 

Yeah and he’s 110% right. This is a weird narrative that is being pushed by people like Sam Barsanti so they can pump out a few more articles with the word “incel” in the headline and wonder about how damaging this movie is going to be while pointing out how dangerous white people are.