▲ | davesque 12 hours ago | |
> Crowder being hated by a huge percentage of the population, which was a quip that had no relevance The man makes a living by antagonizing people who don't hold his views, and that's not relevant to how effective he will be at making a reasonable argument? > The left is basically saying I hate Charlie Kirk he deserved to die, and by the way it was your own guy. No, the "left" is not saying this. You're assuming it. For any such over-the-top comment you find on Xitter, or wherever, one can easily find an equally over-the-top right-leaning comment. What does this say? That maybe social media isn't the best way to discover what the average person actually thinks. > He was dating a trans person, the bullets had markings bella ciao (that was also sung in disrespect at CK vigils by the way) and his dad and other family members have confirmed he was radicalized left. All relevant details that make it hard to pin this entirely on the far-right. But he was also raised in a MAGA, gun-toting family. That makes it hard to pin this entirely on the far-left. Did his personal background make it easier for him to resort to gun violence to make his point? Could it be that his conservative family are disgusted by his relationship with a transgender person, and might choose to cast his views as being "radical left" so as to avoid any embarrassment to themselves? Yes, all these things could be. And we may know more in the days to come. For now, nobody knows. And it's very hard for liberal-minded people to feel like emphasizing the shooter's left-leaning political views isn't a veiled call to retaliatory violence from political leaders that thrive off of conflict. |