The strangest fucking thing about right wingers and Charlie Kirk is that somehow they think we are still in the "polite discussion" phase of this "culture war" they kicked off/invented.
It tells you how goddamn fucking comfortable they are and how few marginalized people are in their lives.
That is to say Charlie Kirk only *said* things apparently. And apparently saying things can't lead to very real violence that people experience.
He was *only* talking. He *only* made a Watchlist of professors to inform people about who had liberal viewpoints, and if those people got horribly harassed & threatened, that's not on him.
They are "only" words.
@artemis
One of many reasons that I don't think I should have kids: abuse culture *loves* to shelter verbal abusers under the whole "sticks and stones" admonition and "ignore them and they'll go away", from the youngest age, and I'm pretty sure by now that the next teacher who says either of those in my presence gets punched.
After all, the greatest trauma of my childhood was living through how sticks and stones are *inevitable* if authorities ignore bullies.
Artemis
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