Method Man said:
BearlySpeaking said:
Method Man said:
Realitybites said:
Looks like Clemson has stepped up to the plate as well.
"Clemson fires employee for Kirk posts. Two more removed from teaching duties
Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article312116755.html#storylink=cpy
All hail our Lord and Savior Charlie Kirk.
Did you publicly celebrate his murder for advocating for free speech in political debates?
To be honest....I don't care at all. I'm much more concerned about the Arizona St game tomorrow.
I'd never heard of Kirk before he got shot.
This epidemic of white on white crime and the assassination's attempts on Trump, Kirk and the politician from Minnesota is scary and a reflection of Trump's America.
These are dark times we are living in.
You think the assassination attempt against Trump was "a reflection of Trump's America?"
That's an interesting rhetorical statement.
"[It is] a reflection of Trump's America."
R(x, f(T)) It's a statement structure readily available to use for any topic.
You are reiterating the same claim a large number of people make about the Kirk assassination: that it was the victim's fault he was shot at.
It's true there is a certain way of thinking and speaking by many in this culture that makes this a darker time in our nation than usual. This way of being towards others/the world seemed to take off in 2020, and found its reflection in the multiple areas (CHAZ/Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, etc.) in the US that were not under state control at any level for anywhere from three weeks to one year. Even scarier than the white on white on crime is the FBI homicide stats from 2021 to 2023 for black on black murder/manslaughter, which surpassed even white on white murder/manslaughter for the total percentage. But I'm not sure why you focus on race if you are wanting to look at an overall national trend. Violent crime was much worse in 2020 and peaked in 2021. We have been coming down off that high ever since.
What is coming to the fore lately is directed political violence from the left. You mention the two assassination attempts against Trump and the murder of Kirk at a campus debate.
What is interesting about the mindset that has been growing for the past decade is that it reveals itself in its spite towards children if it can find a way to drape a political aura over them. For example, this summer we had the elementary school girls who were crushed and drowned in the Guadalupe river flood at a church camp. There were a surprising number, at least to me, of professionals who rejoiced at the deaths of these children and proclaimed on social media sentiments that basically meant those kids got what they had coming to them because they were Christians, Republicans, Texans, whatever group they wanted to focus their contempt on. Kirk was not the beginning of professionals getting fired for really ugly public behavior. People got "canceled" for the things they stated during this summer, like a pediatrician who was fired by Texas Children's Hospital. This mindset that rejoices in the death of children if a political meaning can be given to their deaths is a manifestation of this darkness in our culture.