David Strom:
You have to understand the fundamental principle of modern Critical Theory, which is that words are weapons, and using the wrong words, even if they are "true," is an act of violence. And, modern leftists believe, violence of this kind should be met with violence in the world. Shooting Charlie Kirk because he said the wrong things wasn't violence, but self-defense.
Yes, they see the world that way because, for them, the world is a construct of the mind. Believe something and it is true. Charlie, by persuading people to believe the "wrong" things, is a murderer.
That is why "deadnaming" is a "violent" act, denying men can become women is "genocide," and the killing of a lovely father and husband is worth celebrating. Charlie Kirk, in their eyes, is no different from killing Hitler.
It shouldn't shock you that randos on the internet celebrated Kirk's death, but it should shock everybody that teachers, professors, and Deans of colleges are. They are not random people, but ones who are in positions of responsibility who teach the next generation how to think and behave.
Doctors, nurses, teachers, and liberal politicians all jumped on the bandwagon of celebration, at least until the talking points went out. The most prominent Democrats tried to tamp down the celebrations by, for once, not celebrating the murder openly after Matthew Dowd stepped in it badly enough to get fired. But it takes a while for the activists to get the talking points--long enough that the line troops didn't get the message.
Also:
A civilization with an elite filled with people who not-so-secretly wish for half their fellow citizens to be dead cannot survive, and won't. These people control the levers of power, teach our children, care for us in our hospitals, and literally judge us from the bench.
Is it cancel culture to drive them out of polite society? No. It is self-defense.
# posted by Ranger @ 5:19 PM
