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.
Looks like Kirk got shot by a groyper honestly, so it's really a matter of infighting amongst themselves.
But when they get around to memorializing Kirk, they want to remind you, it was "only" words, only debate.
No, it wasn't. He hurt people.
He. Hurt. People.
I mean...
The right wing got their President & their Supreme Court & their Legislature. They are out there doing whatever they please.
But it's only words. "Why are you people so upset? It's just debate!"
No, it fucking isn't...not when the debate is accompanied by State violence it certainly isn't!
They think it's a game. They think we're trying to score points.
Charlie Kirk is apparently the first time it's becoming real to people that this isn't just a game...that they could get hurt.
They're shocked and aghast. "How can you be so callous?"
We've already lost so many to their violence, & they are scared *for the first time* & don't understand why we shrug & say "oh, this is just how the world IS now. You didn't know?"
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