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no_hypocrisy

(53,080 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:08 AM Monday

MAGAs don't recognize fine distinction.

Just because I don’t rend my clothing, I don’t upend my life in unparalleled grief, I don’t attend public vigils for Charlie Kirk, etc. doesn’t mean that I’m celebrating his death and how he died. He just lacked any significance in my life.

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no_hypocrisy

(53,080 posts)
5. Agreed, but employing the logical fallacy of
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:27 AM
Monday

Hasty Generalization is irksome and inappropriate. Those of us who don’t/didn’t worship Charlie Kirk shouldn’t 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
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:27 AM
Monday

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.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:33 AM
Monday

And mass media's disingenuous "grief policing" is motivated by pressure from corporate ownership to boost ratings.

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