You write that this is happening organically following the initial big shared push — but actually I think the Kirk meme is still being pushed by large state players vested in crypto/Kirkcoin
“Others will observe that it’s a tough way to go out—your legacy being smeared and tarnished and abused.” Yes indeed it is,
It’s rough for the living loved ones who witness it as well.
perhaps those same people will find the grace to recall that observation the next time they encounter a post with a memorial or suicide note or news article reporting on the violent early death of trans person (often enough under 18 years old).
Ironically, the conditions which contributed to their deaths in no small part were propagated & mainstreamed by Kirk. (Transphobia’s not new, but it didn’t used to be all they fucking talked about.)
This is what people like Klein just don’t or won’t get. There are real life people and tremendous real life violence & suffering happening downstream of whatever ‘civil debate’ hate speech-laundering he has in mind when he says “Kirk did politics exactly right”.
While he and his cis het white male counterpart are busy ‘coming to the table’ over the rights of other people which he has no flesh & blood stake on the outcome
there’s a trans woman who never makes it home from the bar because the sum of it all is “these people are disposable. Use them as you wish , then take out the trash.”
I'd never heard of him before either, and was appalled by some of his quotes that were posted afterwards. As much as I don't like to disrespect the dead, I appreciate the rejection of his lionization.
"A thing is funny when — in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening — it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution." George Orwell
I"ve read many of your well considered, thoughtful articles. This is not one of them. It adds to division and polarization instead of seeing beyond it. In no discussion does name calling advance an argument.
You write that this is happening organically following the initial big shared push — but actually I think the Kirk meme is still being pushed by large state players vested in crypto/Kirkcoin
He wasn’t before?
“Others will observe that it’s a tough way to go out—your legacy being smeared and tarnished and abused.” Yes indeed it is,
It’s rough for the living loved ones who witness it as well.
perhaps those same people will find the grace to recall that observation the next time they encounter a post with a memorial or suicide note or news article reporting on the violent early death of trans person (often enough under 18 years old).
Ironically, the conditions which contributed to their deaths in no small part were propagated & mainstreamed by Kirk. (Transphobia’s not new, but it didn’t used to be all they fucking talked about.)
This is what people like Klein just don’t or won’t get. There are real life people and tremendous real life violence & suffering happening downstream of whatever ‘civil debate’ hate speech-laundering he has in mind when he says “Kirk did politics exactly right”.
While he and his cis het white male counterpart are busy ‘coming to the table’ over the rights of other people which he has no flesh & blood stake on the outcome
there’s a trans woman who never makes it home from the bar because the sum of it all is “these people are disposable. Use them as you wish , then take out the trash.”
I'd never heard of him before either, and was appalled by some of his quotes that were posted afterwards. As much as I don't like to disrespect the dead, I appreciate the rejection of his lionization.
"A thing is funny when — in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening — it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution." George Orwell
I"ve read many of your well considered, thoughtful articles. This is not one of them. It adds to division and polarization instead of seeing beyond it. In no discussion does name calling advance an argument.
You mean calling Charlie a fascist? He was a fascist.