It’s an obvious understatement/provocation to write “Dies at 31” in a headline about a man assassinated by rifle round to the neck.
The Times also leaned on the worn trope of alleging racist or anti-Semitic comments without elucidating them (“He tweeted relentlessly with a brash right-wing spin, including inflammatory comments about Jewish, gay and Black people”), a tendency that’s been common in coverage today...
Most professions and blue collar jobs work like this: The more experienced a person is at work, the better the pay. And with more experience and better pay, they produce better results.
Seems that doesn't necessarily apply to teaching.
Facebook - Heartland Institute 💡 Alex Epstein explains a simple but powerful truth: when evaluating any technology—whether it’s AI, medicine, or fossil fuels—you must weigh both the benefits and side effects.
Yet, most thinkers ignore the benefits of fossil fuels entirely.
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The new U.S. House Jan. 6 select subcommittee is putting on a full-court press to recover the documents, videos, transcripts, and other information its predecessor Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee either discarded or otherwise failed to turn over for two successive GOP-led Jan. 6 investigations.
You said: I've been looking for the words that Charlie Kirk has said/written that have made so many on the left applaud his murder.
Everything I've seen was simply not true.
He either never said it (it was made up by others) or it was taken out of context.
Do you know of any REAL statements that were "awful"?
ChatGPT said:
Here are real statements or positions by Charlie Kirk that many people (on the left or elsewhere) find “awful” or deeply objectionable. Some are controversial, some decontextualized, but all have enough evidence to show they actually occurred. I’ll try to present them fairly, with context where possible.
Some of Charlie Kirk’s controversial / criticized statements
He also called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “an awful person,” saying King is only revered because of “[one thing] he didn’t actually believe.” FactCheck.org+2The Standard+2
Jewish donors / Jewish money statements
After Oct 7, 2023 (the Hamas attack), Kirk said: “Jewish donors are finally realizing that they've spent decades subsidizing Jew hatred on campus.” He also argued that those donors had been “the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border neoliberal quasi‐Marxist policies … secular Jews” etc. Delaware Black+3FactCheck.org+3Adrian Cruce's Blog+3
Note: the exact phrase “Jewish money is ruining U.S. culture” might be a paraphrase, not a precise quote, but the views described are close to what he has said. Adrian Cruce's Blog+2FactCheck.org+2
Gun deaths “worth it” for protecting the Second Amendment
Kirk has said: “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” Many criticize this as morally insensitive, because it appears to accept loss of life as collateral damage. The Standard+2Delaware Black+2
Transgender / LGBTQ+ remarks
He said about Imane Khelif (an Algerian athlete) in the 2024 Olympics: “This entire ideology is pure evil,” after Khelif -- who identifies as a woman -- defeated a female boxer. Kirk argued that a “biological man” was competing unfairly. Advocate.com
On more general transgender issues, he has said things like: “The one issue I think that is so against our senses, so against the natural law … is the transgender thing happening in America right now.”Asianet Newsable
Denial or strong criticism of “white privilege” and DEI
He frequently dismisses white privilege, calling it a “racist lie,” and argues that DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) programs are unfair, reverse discriminatory, or ideological tools that undermine merit. Delaware Black+1
“Great Replacement” rhetoric
Kirk has been reported to express that the “Great Replacement” is not a theory but a reality, in the context of immigration and demographic change.
1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1984 - "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
"They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. There are calls for Kimmel to be fired. I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this."
Continued Carr, "The FCC could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact, a very important matter.
