I get this is something marginalized folks must live with on a daily basis and none of this is surprising, but I’m a white cishet guy and this stuff is eye opening and (further) radicalizing to me.

The entire social response to Kirk getting merc’d is literally the can-excuse-1 can-excuse-2 meme. Down to bone.

White, cishet, male-dominated society (and the mainstream media that extends from it) has decided that, okay, maybe Kirk said some very pointed or occasionally untoward comments. But really, can any of those words compare to being willing to debate in the Marketplace of Ideas? Ok, maybe he was a bit racist. Maybe he didn’t care for trans folks. Sure, that’s all a bit rude. But he was willing to discuss his ideas and be civil about it (ok, maybe not civil, but he didn’t kill anyone over it), and in the end that’s all that really matters, right?

Politicians, the media, and a good chunk of society is basically saying how marginalized people may feel about all this is entirely irrelevant. Any sort of speech that is racist, sexist, or bigoted is excusable so long as the subject serves the broader neoliberal, white supremacist, settler project.

Marg bar Amrika.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We were all good until the one conservative guy who is constantly taking about how Palestinians are dogs and cat calling women all day decided he was gonna go to HR saying that the women in the office made him feel unsafe at work.

      Luckily he ended up getting fired once people had to make statements on the record about what he said.

      Of course, he’s saying it’s because he a Christian and being oppressed, but it’s because he’s a sexpest that praises violence against minorities and women while crying when it’s a white man.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 days ago

          He’s immediately trying the grift lol, getting Facebook chuds to send him money for lawyers. What’s funny is that this company is literally owned by Trumpers, but they know where their bread is buttered lol

          More instances of all this shit just being infighting on the right that we just have to live with.