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Originally Posted by rymack
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 |
See, and that's the problem. I bet a lot of these online culture warrior grifters don't even believe half the crap they spew out, but sitting on the extreme is what makes money and attracts attention/clicks, that's the fundamental problem here.
These people exist with these extreme opinions and play in dangerous arenas that attract the crazies, gives breath and legitimacy to these ridiculous ideologies, it's exactly what I hate about modern internet culture.
Everyone really needs to scale it back, every opinion doesn't need to be so hyperbolic all the damn time to garner engagement.