No, Im debating you. What Im also doing is taking what he said at face value, and not supplanting what he said with what I think he meant. No more “reading between the lines”. You hold people to account for the things that they say, not what you think they might say behind closed doors. Especially when it comes to someone is as miss quoted as Kirk is/was.
For example, it was pretty funny seeing Stephen King claim that Kirk had said that “gays should be stoned”, and then get noted to fuck because it wasnt true. But theres loads of people who do this all the time that never get noted, or when they do they ignore it in place of what the “feel”. For context, Kirk was commenting on something said by Ms Rachel(a youtuber) that was cherry picking bible verses as some kind of “gotcha”, using Leviticus 19(Love you neighbour as yourself), and Kirk said:
“Ms. Rachel, you might wanna crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18 is that thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just sayin’”.
This was then widely reported as Kirk advocating for the stoning of gays(if you read between the lines). You begin to see the problem? Media today, both social and main stream, is more interested in getting clicks than it is telling us the truth. And nothing generates clicks quicker than outrage.
I have no doubts the man was a fanny. And when he did talk, he often did the same thing. Saying things to get the reaction that give him a platform. Even his widow just the other day, when speaking after his murder, was performative as fuck. Like she too needs to always be driving engagement, rather than taking the time to actually honour the man she loved, she was rallying support for his message. Grief might make us do weird things, but ugh. Its exhausting listening to these people talk the way they do.
And I dont owe any of you a good attitude. We live in a time where the majority of people get all their opinions from headlines, and its the reason the world is seemingly as fucked as it is. All the muppets lamenting the popularity of Kirk and Trump and Musk and however else, while at the same time doing the very same thing.
My aggression, if you can even call it that, is at the utter state of discourse in social media, and the negative affect is it having on people ability to think for themselves. God forbid anyone puts in some effort, instead of just posting feelings…
And youre still aware that you know how to read, right? If theres a debate, and you want to be part of it, thats fine. But be part of it, dont just drop the same easily clickable comments that everyone else does, and then start moaning when you get called on it.
Why the fuck are you all so terrified of being wrong???
No, Im debating you. What Im also doing is taking what he said at face value, and not supplanting what he said with what I think he meant. No more “reading between the lines”. You hold people to account for the things that they say, not what you think they might say behind closed doors. Especially when it comes to someone is as miss quoted as Kirk is/was.
For example, it was pretty funny seeing Stephen King claim that Kirk had said that “gays should be stoned”, and then get noted to fuck because it wasnt true. But theres loads of people who do this all the time that never get noted, or when they do they ignore it in place of what the “feel”. For context, Kirk was commenting on something said by Ms Rachel(a youtuber) that was cherry picking bible verses as some kind of “gotcha”, using Leviticus 19(Love you neighbour as yourself), and Kirk said:
This was then widely reported as Kirk advocating for the stoning of gays(if you read between the lines). You begin to see the problem? Media today, both social and main stream, is more interested in getting clicks than it is telling us the truth. And nothing generates clicks quicker than outrage.
I have no doubts the man was a fanny. And when he did talk, he often did the same thing. Saying things to get the reaction that give him a platform. Even his widow just the other day, when speaking after his murder, was performative as fuck. Like she too needs to always be driving engagement, rather than taking the time to actually honour the man she loved, she was rallying support for his message. Grief might make us do weird things, but ugh. Its exhausting listening to these people talk the way they do.
He’s overtly racist which some mistake for nationalism.
So I type all that for the debate, and you just hand wave it away with a personal belief? Jesus fucking christ.
Im not the guy you replied to.
But you did reply to a “debate”, you know that right?
Do you think the aggression in your replies here makes people more inclined to respond in kind?
Nobody here owes you more than they feel like giving. You cannot expect people to match your energy just because.
And I dont owe any of you a good attitude. We live in a time where the majority of people get all their opinions from headlines, and its the reason the world is seemingly as fucked as it is. All the muppets lamenting the popularity of Kirk and Trump and Musk and however else, while at the same time doing the very same thing.
My aggression, if you can even call it that, is at the utter state of discourse in social media, and the negative affect is it having on people ability to think for themselves. God forbid anyone puts in some effort, instead of just posting feelings…
And you’re on the Internet. There’s at least a dozen of us on here. You know that, right?
And youre still aware that you know how to read, right? If theres a debate, and you want to be part of it, thats fine. But be part of it, dont just drop the same easily clickable comments that everyone else does, and then start moaning when you get called on it.
Why the fuck are you all so terrified of being wrong???