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
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.
Wishful thinking. The average person does not even know who Charlie Kirk is. And now they’re watching their government and every normie institution either mythologize him or normalize him. The propaganda machine is working overtime to manufacture consent.
The war is being waged on the margins, creeping in slowly. You’re looking for a dam breaking moment, you will never notice it even when it happens.
I have a friend that had no idea who kirk was. His response was basically “why this guy and not trump or alex jones” I had to explain the whole groyper situation which is unfortunate because not knowing about nick fuentes is a blessing.