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1490wayb · 56-60, M
PURE BULLSHIT!! he listened to opposing views and engaged in respectful debates with anyone. as have many of varying beliefs and philosophies
1490wayb · 56-60, M
@SunshineGirl or he pointed out the flaws in their logic and offered an alternative view to what they have been taught their short lives
Waveney · M
@1490wayb Except he didn't. He didn't budge one inch from his world view and was not interested in compromise. It was bullying with a smile.
Adrift · 61-69, F
@SunshineGirl They had the power to walk away and not participate in these debates.

justbob · 61-69, M
He was a messenger speaking truth to people who badly needed to hear it and engaging in respectful debate with people who did not agree with him. We need more people like him.
BohoBabe · M
@Waveney But we have to carry the flame.
@justbob you can't be serious.
@justbob Charlie Kirk couldn't stand word "empathy." Even though it's the heart of the Christian message.

BohoBabe · M
Then he forget to pay his neck bill, so it exploded.
Miram · 31-35, F
I just think that the fact that he was killed is a problem that should not get shadowed by the fact that he was a pos..or by the fact that people support pos that align with their views irrespective of their destructive behaviors ..

His killing is plenty problematic. To truly care about that would be to tend to the social and political factors that lead to it. Not just to reacte to lack of sympathy.

It is big cluster eff up that is incredibly convoluted in so many ways.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
He built his brand a lot like Ben Shapiro did. As a trained political operative going up against 19 year olds and producing clickbate.

However, at the Cambridge Union, the students had serious debate skill and he got crushed.
I agree with most of this but it predates current internet culture.

Evangelical "Christian nationalists" were teaching young people these tactics at least as far back as the 1990s. Social Media just gives them a bigger bullhorn.
Waveney · M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Oh I'm sure it does. But MAGA are desperately trying to claim he was there to debate honestly and to change minds - he was doing nothing of the sort, and even the younger conservatives are noting this.
@Waveney Oh absolutely.
@Waveney I just encountered this in high school too. The difference was their audience was one table in a high school cafeteria.
Pretzel · 70-79, M
Won't disagree.

But it isn't justification to kill someone either.
@Pretzel Nobody is saying it is.

But it is interesting that so many avoid the inconvenient truth that is ideology has killed and harmed far more people.

But because it can be deflected with abstraction nobody talks about it.

Just like how an insurance company signing death warrants daily is "market forces".
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
Charlie who?
Adrift · 61-69, F
I saw him as just another personality for entertainment.
Shock jocks, radio talk show personalities, he was nothing new.
RedBaron · M
This is not much of an insight. Many if not most celebrities are products of the internet and social media.
RedBaron · M
@Waveney No shit, Sherlock.
Waveney · M
@RedBaron If you don't like it, then stop responding, or block me. Either suits me.
RedBaron · M
@Waveney I just speak my mind. Sorry to bother you.

 
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