He has an 11 year old daughter so he’s trying to balance safety for her (in a social sense) while considering the rhetoric and now idolatry that is a threat. Sounds like a great dad.
* So white boy bemoans a lack of empathy as he repeats counterintuitive propaganda. The anti-empathy thing is ironically popular on the right which was echoed by Kirk. The professors class on misinformation should’ve been an eye opener to this kid. The IT’S ALL LIES! Cult crap he grew up with was all lies.
Two extra paragraphs. The first one for the writing. 👍
In some parts of polite society, it now holds that if many of Kirk’s views were repugnant, his willingness to calmly argue about them and his insistence that people hash out their disagreements through discourse at a time of such division made him a free-speech advocate, and an exemplar of how we should engage politically across difference. But for those who were directly targeted by Kirk’s rhetoric, this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued. Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people and his racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy.
“There has been an extreme shift,” Kelley told me. “This treatment is authorizing the idea that white supremacy and racism is not just a conservative idea, but a legitimate one.”
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