
Kirk was the only right winger willing to go out in public to debate leftists on their own ground. With his death, it had radicalized many of his fans which is why we see the rise of Nick Fuentes. The leftists made a tremendous mistake in celebrating Kirk’s death because they only radicalized Kirk’s fans in being drawn to Fuentes. This is coming from an independent by the way. But remember, you have been warned.
Because a human being is not just a symbol. Every influential person in history did lots of things good and bad. When someone makes an assessment of another as “awful,” it’s typically either 1) Pushing back on a previous pattern of viewing a complex human being through rose-tinted glasses, 2) trying to weigh the net impact of all the good and bad ripple effects that resulted from what he did, or 3) contrasting a person’s positive effect on the world with his less moral private life.
To criticize MLK is not to support segregation. That’s as foolish as saying the critics of Robespierre just want peasants to starve. Read what his friend Ralph Abernathy wrote about his last night before being murdered. Abernathy didn’t see his friend as awful, but he acknowledged some things that happened. I don’t blame Charlie for making a broad-brush assessment that Abernathy wouldn’t, because most of us are pretty judgmental.
As for the CRA, you have to understand what laws actually are and do instead of judging every law by the name people give it. If I hypothetically passed a law called the Justice for Orphans Act and one of its effects was trapping young people in debt slavery, you should criticize me and that law, no matter how many stupid people think you hate orphans because you’re against a law that has a name nobody could disagree with.
Now I’m not necessarily making the case for or against Charlie’s positions on MLK and/or the CRA. I don’t entirely know what all my thoughts are on them. But I am making a case for why a reasonable person in good faith could come to certain conclusions without it being out of malice or hatred.
You didn’t answer the question what makes the Civil Rights Act being passed a huge mistake other than racism. As for MLK of course no one is above criticism but saying he’s an awful person isn’t the same as criticism & yes I’d say if you claim he’s awful you stand against what he stood for
Sorry but you’re legit arguing like you agree with it and obviously “"X caused bad results" and "we should simply uno-reverse X", is fine but we’re talking a specific thing not something broad. Charlie Kirk saying that the civil rights act was awful. What parts of the civil rights act being removed or changed would help people? What makes it a mistake? So if I don’t believe that certain parts of civil rights as implemented at the time weren’t mistakes I shouldn’t be apart of politics?
If my opinion is that marginalized people are inferior would it be wrong to treat me like a bad person if you had a different opinion than me? If you disagreed with me on marginalized people being inferior & treated me poorly because of it would I right to say you’re forcing you opinion?
In this scenario you’re arguing that claiming people are Inferior is the same as saying you disagree with certain political positions. I would say if your opinion is harming individuals such as spewing hate towards them or with some individuals wishing death on them then your opinion is wrong regardless of which side you’re on. I didn’t like Charlie Kirk but acting like he hated certain races or marginalized groups is just incorrect.
The main difference is media training & Israel as far as Charlie & Nick go. Nick says the quiet part out loud where as Charlie Kirk hints & makes dog whistles about the same thing. The only other major difference is Nick is openly anti Israel & antisemitic where as Charlie was pro Israel & outside of the great replacement theory wasn’t antisemitic at least in front of the cameras.
Yes I get it everything about Charlie Kirk is out of context & in context it’s obvious he’s not racist. MLK being awful out of context, Civil Rights act being a mistake out of context, all the time in urban America prowling blacks hurting white people fun out of context, moronic black women in customer service has me wondering if she was a DEI hire is also out of context. Yep not racist just everything is devoid of context.
I will say I never approved of DEI because I don’t think race or sex should matter in any regard when hiring someone. No I don’t think he was racist because he openly spoke several times against people like Nick Fuentes who are actually racist and if you looked at the context he spoke against MLK because of the rape allegations. He also disapproved of civil rights act being used to justify men in women’s sports that’s why he wanted it changed not because he was racist.
That’s why context matters you should also recognize if we lower the standard we are gonna have bad candidates. Race should never matter in any regard. As of person of color I would rather be hired by my qualifications rather than a DEI hire. It’s a shameful excuse for inclusion and it makes people of color seem incapable.
First of all that’s not how DEI works. DEI doesn’t = we just hire non white people that’s what racist people think it is. Hence why Carlie Kirk would make his black pilots comment. Lol crazy that you believe that’s the only reason he thinks MLk is an awful person. Funny that Kirk used to glaze Trump & would never say he’s an awful person despite the many sexual assault & rape allegations against him including a conviction against Jean Carroll. Funny how that didn’t make Trump an awful person
The same Charlie Kirk who claims he agreed with almost all of Andrew Tates views. The only difference between Nick & & Charlie is Nick says the quiet part out loud where’s as Charlie Kirk is media trained & makes dog whistles about the same thing. With the notable difference being Israel. Kirk was pro Israel at least in public & not as antisemitic although he did believe in the great replacement theory. Nick is openly anti Israel as well as antisemitic outside of that their views are close
I do wanna throw in here that I think trump is an awful person I’m not disagreeing with you there but I disagree with you about DEI I would never want to be a diversity hire ever. My experience in qualifications should be the only thing that is reviewed not my skin color. The big issue I have the with the trumps cases is they were fabricated, the judge allowed for false evidence to be use to make trump look worse.
So MLK is awful despite only being accused but Trump is great because despite being accused by many & convicted it was all fabricated to make him look bad? So like Charlie Kirk you get nervous when you see black people in certain positions because you assume there’s a good chance they’re only there due to being being black since that’s how you guys believe DEI & affirmative action works? Also getting nervous around black people isn’t racist in your opinion?
Look man, we have a fundamental disagreement on DEI and affirmative action, so we will literally never agree on this. I have more important stuff to do rather than arguing with a wall. Just do your research before you accuse random people of being racist, it quite literally desensitizes society from what the term actually means when you throw it around like that. Have a good day.
Well of course we have a fundamental disagreement you believe DEI & affirmative action means any non white person is hired when that’s not how that works. You also defended Kirk claiming to be nervous around black people because he assumes they’re unqualified yet you say it’s not racist. You’re the wall saying the sky is red & that me telling you it’s blue is just a fundamental disagreement
Most people on the right with a platform say they're "against racism" but I feel like you can tell when they're clearly not. He was obsessed with painting "blacks" as violent and publicly endorsed "great replacement" conspiracy theories. And yes he has freedom of speech but that's not really being debated here. I also don't think he should've been killed btw. I just think he had some really fucked up views that are in fact harmful to this country.
I actually agree with this as a leftist. I do think there are more respectful right wing debaters out there, so that first part feels like a a bit of an exaggeration, but other than that you're spot on. Fuentes and Walsh are worse than Kirk, and they and their supporters have now been emboldened to stop watering down their blatant hate speech and fascism.
They’re emboldened for a good reason though. I appreciate you agreeing even though you’re a leftist. But I never understood how leftists can have the audacity to talk about fascism when they themselves are just as radical but on the other side. It’s like a murderer trying to lecture to another murderer that what they did was wrong lol