The "misquote" you opened with was truly not exactly rendered, but when Charlie said that 4 prominent and successful black women don't have brainpower, since they are on top that suggests to me that he MEANS no black women do or most or many of them don't. And then concluding with the idea that they stole positions from whites: God I hope this isn't considered "moderate". He's not a nice person. He shouldn't be shot, but he's pretty much a jerk. Society decided to give black folks a special break for a while, to try to help. We all take advantage of opportunities. Why shouldn't they have?
Matt: What do you think your hero Hunter would say?
I agree completely, they’ve tried to wash the stink off of this comment, but when Kirk says these black women had to ‘steal it’ from some deserving white person that is pretty damning. If it was such an innocuous comment, why are they ‘stealing it׳ and why from a white person? It’s also pretty telling that Taibbi thinks a lawsuit would prevail against someone drawing those conclusions. This from a supposed champion of free speech.
There are plenty of other disturbing comments by Kirk which explain why many are not celebrating his life, such as what you find on this clip:
Sad to see this spectacle —- Walt and Matt had a chance to bring the temperature down and instead they doubled down and beat a dead horse by dissecting cherry-picked posts of people who had been fired for their comments. How exactly is that helpful? And why not acknowledge that there was near unanimous condemnation on the Right and Left of Kirk’s murder? And Walt sounding like he’s had one too many, is now ranting about censoring the press and spinning half-baked conspiracy theories about Gork while Taibbi nods along or remains silent.
I see your point. I have made the same point referencing different people. I haven’t really seen what you are talking about with these two specifically, but I have seen it a lot in the wake of Kirk’s murder. I have noticed the relative excusing and lack of discussion regarding the burgeoning speech threats this administration is posing currently compared to the prior administration’s. I’m thinking it is because the censorship is primarily in favor of Israel which appears to be a sacred cow for both Matt and Walter. That being said I do appreciate a lot of work both have done over the years, however, it is remarkably hypocritical.
I loathe those comments by Kirk. How do we know the people who would have been hired instead of the three black women would have been white? Frankly, without affirmative action, if Universities just picked kids based on test scores, predominantly Asian Americans would likely be in majority at many Universities. The actual Kirk. quotes were arguably racist. I don’t like these comments at all. Those ignorant comments do NOT warrant an execution. However, they do warrant a discussion. I think the fact that DNC media can’t do something as basic as correctly printing a quote just reveals how bad DNC media has become. I have NO RESPECT FOR NYT and other allegedly respected papers that can’t even copy a quote correctly on paper, particularly since an intelligent person would argue what I just did: How do you know those 3 black women would not have been replaced by someone besides a white person? Completely illogical and certainly borderline racist.
“Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see."
"I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson.
"And what do you conclude from that, Watson?"
Watson thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?"
The "misquote" you opened with was truly not exactly rendered, but when Charlie said that 4 prominent and successful black women don't have brainpower, since they are on top that suggests to me that he MEANS no black women do or most or many of them don't. And then concluding with the idea that they stole positions from whites: God I hope this isn't considered "moderate". He's not a nice person. He shouldn't be shot, but he's pretty much a jerk. Society decided to give black folks a special break for a while, to try to help. We all take advantage of opportunities. Why shouldn't they have?
Matt: What do you think your hero Hunter would say?
I agree completely, they’ve tried to wash the stink off of this comment, but when Kirk says these black women had to ‘steal it’ from some deserving white person that is pretty damning. If it was such an innocuous comment, why are they ‘stealing it׳ and why from a white person? It’s also pretty telling that Taibbi thinks a lawsuit would prevail against someone drawing those conclusions. This from a supposed champion of free speech.
There are plenty of other disturbing comments by Kirk which explain why many are not celebrating his life, such as what you find on this clip:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GmKaG3cdK/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Sad to see this spectacle —- Walt and Matt had a chance to bring the temperature down and instead they doubled down and beat a dead horse by dissecting cherry-picked posts of people who had been fired for their comments. How exactly is that helpful? And why not acknowledge that there was near unanimous condemnation on the Right and Left of Kirk’s murder? And Walt sounding like he’s had one too many, is now ranting about censoring the press and spinning half-baked conspiracy theories about Gork while Taibbi nods along or remains silent.
I see your point. I have made the same point referencing different people. I haven’t really seen what you are talking about with these two specifically, but I have seen it a lot in the wake of Kirk’s murder. I have noticed the relative excusing and lack of discussion regarding the burgeoning speech threats this administration is posing currently compared to the prior administration’s. I’m thinking it is because the censorship is primarily in favor of Israel which appears to be a sacred cow for both Matt and Walter. That being said I do appreciate a lot of work both have done over the years, however, it is remarkably hypocritical.
I loathe those comments by Kirk. How do we know the people who would have been hired instead of the three black women would have been white? Frankly, without affirmative action, if Universities just picked kids based on test scores, predominantly Asian Americans would likely be in majority at many Universities. The actual Kirk. quotes were arguably racist. I don’t like these comments at all. Those ignorant comments do NOT warrant an execution. However, they do warrant a discussion. I think the fact that DNC media can’t do something as basic as correctly printing a quote just reveals how bad DNC media has become. I have NO RESPECT FOR NYT and other allegedly respected papers that can’t even copy a quote correctly on paper, particularly since an intelligent person would argue what I just did: How do you know those 3 black women would not have been replaced by someone besides a white person? Completely illogical and certainly borderline racist.
Might be both soulless and evil, but it’s still free speech. You get it all or you get none, that was literally Charlie Kirk’s base message
Did you see the articles in WSJ & others that banning commercials is a form of free speech???
The training of LLMs is obvious even to me, a person only vaguely aware of how AI works. Trust nothing you see popping up randomly on your feeds.
“Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see."
"I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson.
"And what do you conclude from that, Watson?"
Watson thinks for a moment. "Well," he says, "astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?"
"Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent!”