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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGAs don't recognize fine distinction.
Just because I dont rend my clothing, I dont upend my life in unparalleled grief, I dont attend public vigils for Charlie Kirk, etc. doesnt mean that Im celebrating his death and how he died. He just lacked any significance in my life.
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MAGAs don't recognize fine distinction. (Original Post)
no_hypocrisy
Monday
OP
There is absolutely nothing wrong with toasting the end of a sick racist asshole. Prost!
Blues Heron
Monday
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How a person dies does not change or erase their legacy and history. Does not change who they were. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Monday
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Irish_Dem
(74,853 posts)1. They don't care at all what we do or don't do.
They just want an excuse to kill people.
Duncanpup
(15,131 posts)2. Well said.
Blues Heron
(7,568 posts)3. There is absolutely nothing wrong with toasting the end of a sick racist asshole. Prost!
no_hypocrisy
(53,080 posts)5. Agreed, but employing the logical fallacy of
Hasty Generalization is irksome and inappropriate. Those of us who dont/didnt worship Charlie Kirk shouldnt be appraised as monolithic.
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,407 posts)4. How a person dies does not change or erase their legacy and history. Does not change who they were. . . . nt
Kirk did not die saving a school kid from a school shooter. He was not heroic.
sop
(16,039 posts)6. The lunatic right's performative outpourings of grief are staged to call attention to themselves, not the deceased.
And mass media's disingenuous "grief policing" is motivated by pressure from corporate ownership to boost ratings.