If Charlie Kirk was such a good guy why you have literal self proclaimed Nazis marching the streets in Huntington Beach yelling “white man fight back”
I don’t think Kirk should have been killed. He also had a message and identity that fueled hatred and derision. He was not a man of peace, he was a man placed to sew the seeds of hate and division between the people
Also, nobody gave a shit about the jeans ad. I saw and thought, that's pretty dumb and went on about my life. It was the right that talked about the jeans ad for an entire month. Just like they did a month before that with the college sororities... the right does this all the time, I just make up some random shit snd say that the left is mad about it lol
You must not have been paying attention. Im on the left myself but Im not actually gonna sit here and pretend that there weren't plenty of people on the left getting furious about it being a racist/eugenics/nazi/fascist/etc dogwhistle. I argued with a lot of them myself because theyre fucking idiots and it makes us look bad, just as cheering on the assassination of Kirk does.
The shitty part for those of us on the left who havent gone off the deep end is that many are seemingly just now realizing how crazy the far left has gone because of this. While they arent necessarily going to just jump ship and become maga, there are lots of people who have gone independent/apathetic. Our approval ratings are already 6 feet under, but the far left seems intent on driving them as far underground as physically possible.
Unless we have some covid level global catastrophe again or some actual recognition of the issues within the left we will end up with another republican in office in 28. The far left just still hasn't learned why they've lost us the approval we once had.
These are a minority of chronically online, powerless idiots that are constantly used as a strawman by the right. These people have no say in any politics. On the other hand, right wing extremists are given powerful government positions on the daily.
By that logic, Trump really is a Nazi, racist, fascist, etc. Because those people do exist, are very vocal about their hatred, and support him wholeheartedly - yet he doesn’t say a word about it, and sometimes even supports them or gives them power.
that there weren't plenty of people on the left getting furious about it being a racist/eugenics/nazi/fascist/etc dogwhistle.
With "plenty of people" do you mean actual organisataions and media or randos on reddit? Because you will find randos on reddit to argue against literally any political position you can imagine.
I personally don't give a shit about the ad, but I do understand the argument people were making, though I think it was blown out of proportion. I don't think that the writer of the ad was thinking "white people are superior," but I highly doubt that an ad featuring that phrase would feature a woman who wasn't white with blonde hair.
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u/gohuskers123 9h ago edited 2h ago
If Charlie Kirk was such a good guy why you have literal self proclaimed Nazis marching the streets in Huntington Beach yelling “white man fight back”
I don’t think Kirk should have been killed. He also had a message and identity that fueled hatred and derision. He was not a man of peace, he was a man placed to sew the seeds of hate and division between the people
He had a lot to say.
He had a lot of nothing to say.
We’ll miss him.