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In no way do I believe what happened to him was ok. He did not deserve that, but I'm also not ok with re-writing history just bc so many seem to want us to.
Kirk was never engaging or debating. He was using his influence to control the narrative by providing misleading information with no factual evidence and no intention of changing the narrative he was trying to control or even acknowledging any evidence that countered it.
It's what abusive individuals and authoritarians always do.
Pretty sure David French is a conservative, but it seems like he and Ezra Klein are attempting to do the same. Using the NYT as a perceived liberal platform to control the narrative, regardless of the facts. It's exactly how state controlled media sounds in Russia, and it's all that will remain if we keep allowing it to happen.
It deserves to be called out. Just know when people get sick of listening to it, t's not bc Ezra Klein was "cancelled by the intolerant left who eventually eat their own." (Although, I have no doubt he'll probably pivot to a pundit position on Fox News to help provide their narrative that they're also presenting a "balanced" argument).
It's bc people are simply looking to you to keep them informed, not to tell them how to think and feel regardless of facts. Inevitably, they will smell bullshit no matter how you try to dress it up.
Eventually people just get sick of being gaslit, and either they move on rather than continuing to trust someone they know can't be trusted or they slip into the Fox News mindset that this is just normal and their only option bc all news exists to spread the narrative of the people that control it.
Ok, he was clearly a bought and paid for piece of shit who existed to spread disinformation and now so are you. You suck, Ezra and David French. Different opinions don't mean it's ok to help dictators create their own reality or rewrite history.
This video Kirk deliberately redefines white privilege in terms of ability to do something.
A black person and a white person both have the ability to apply for a job. White privilege addresses who is likely to get it.
He was a dishonest hate monger. He didn't deserve to die, but he also didn't deserve a podium and microphone.
True but what's funny about TPUSA (and just about every right wing "grassroots" organization) is that it wasn't really Charlie Kirk's baby that took off.
It was started after some wealthy guy named Bill Montgomery approached him and convinced him to start the organization with him instead of going to college. There is like barely anything known about this guy other than he was retired from marketing and had money to spend. Kinda weird right?
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Turning_Point_USA
Yet anytime somebody wants human dignity, equality, or human rights instead of corporate welfare and legalized abuse of those rights, the only explanation that conservatives can give is that George Soros must have paid to put them up to it.
Just kind of makes you wonder how well any of these conservative "grassroots" movements would fare if they didn't have billionaires backing them to create the illusion that people actually support this shit without being coerced by money and marketing.
Like without the billionaires backing him to be the face that sells their message to the youth (not to mention providing free food to broke college kids), would there ever have been any audience willing to sit and listen to unfunded Charlie Kirk make really dumb arguments for several hours?
He was a millionaire at 31, and he didn't even go to college, so obviously he must know what he's talking about about right?