So I’ll start off saying that I struggle taking black and white positions on these things …wife says I have oppositional defiance disorder to which I reply “no I don’t”.
I listened to Charlie Kirk on Gavin’s Newsome podcast. I’ve seen some of the quotes attributed to him here and looked up the context.
http://ca .news.yahoo.com/fact-check...214400078.html
This quote is slightly mitigated . There a link at the bottom of the page that links to other quotes that don’t really offer any mitigation.
I don’t see him as a unredeemable ultra right wing piece of shit. I don’t agree on a lot or most of his positions but I also don’t see most of them being as extreme as presented .
The celebration of someone being killed seems to me to suggest more about polarization in today’s politics than anything else. The rights reaction included .
At the end of the day it seems the public personas of these guys are calculated/ presented to be polarizing . I doubt highly in real life they are this extreme . That to me is the real shame