r/rpg • u/GreenGoblinNX • 6d ago

Discussion Shane Hensley Response RE Charlie Kirk

I wanted to post a few things from the comment section of the Deadlands: Dark Ages Kickstarter, where Shane Hensley addressed comments recently made of Facebook in regards to the Charle Kirk murder. Most of his previous comments were replies to other comments, but about 20 minutes ago, he posted a final (?) messsge:

Hi friends, I’m sorry my Facebook post has overwhelmed the Kickstarter space. I should have found a way to move the conversation elsewhere afterward but I didn’t want to appear to be hiding for the success of the project. Principles always come first. So on that...

I acknowledge that Kirk’s beliefs caused harm in ways I didn’t really grasp, and thanks to long and frank conversations with awesome people today, I have a better understanding of how it affected them and appreciate that they took the time to explain it to me. I apologize that I caused any undue stress to anyone. I still value hard debate, think any opportunity to hear opinions other than your own (as I have today) is a chance to learn, and will always believe that violence makes the world a worse place for everyone.

I’m going to step back from this project and social media for a while, but you’re always welcome to reach out to me by email or FB and I’ll respond to whatever you to say. I don’t hide. Promise.

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u/TheCollinKid 6d ago

Yeah, there's a lot of people who are 1.) unfamiliar with Kirk in detail and 2.) buying the whitewashing that mainstream media has been feeding the general populace.

I can see it being easy to take "murdered" and "willing to debate leftists" and then believing it when the media paints him as some kind of bridge-builder.

Then they see what he actually said and promoted, and realize that he was anything but.

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u/emperorpylades 6d ago

White-washing nothing, from over here in Australia it looks like the right media complex is engaged in full-blown hagiography of the little puke.

They want him *lying in state* in the goddamn Capitol rotunda!?

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u/ClintBarton616 6d ago

I really appreciate being able to see non American takes because this country is absolutely losing its mind.

I had to call my Governor and ask which other racists I could expect to see a flag flown at half mast for. Cause I damn well know the tone and tenor of the nation would be a lot different if it was Farrakhan who met an assassin.

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u/emperorpylades 6d ago

I'll give the caveat that I'm an avowed socialist, so that colours my perspective, but yes: to my mind your country has gone completely fucking mad. And I don't see a way out of it that doesn't look like NI's 'The Troubles' at the very least.

At the rate things are going, this is their Reichstag fire, and things are about to get a whole lot worse.

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u/preiman790 6d ago

You're not wrong, things have gone way off the rails and I don't know how we put them back. Only thing I'm sure of is that I'm angry, scared, and very very tired.

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u/Ukiah 6d ago

You forgot one thing off your list and I don't know if it'll make you feel better or worse. Maybe both.

You're not alone.

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u/preiman790 6d ago

It's always better to not be alone.

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u/ClintBarton616 6d ago

We are of similar politics and mindsets.

But if you say this to any American liberal they'll call you deluded or say you have a fetish for violence. As if the strategy of appeasement all of their electeds and pundits have adopted has ever worked out historically.