I picked up your book about civility. I'm pretty sure as an audible book and I really really really appreciate your angle on that topic. Also, I am committed to picking up an ember or a spark from Charlie Kirk's torch and I'm going to carry it forward and I was asking myself how am I gonna do this? I live in a midnight blue part of Washington state on an island where people routinely assume when they make nasty statements about how they wish the president was dead or how they're happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered. They say it with the full assumption that everyone in the range of hearing is in complete agreement with them. I also Personally know dozens and dozens of people who are good Americans, who are conservative and real Christians who absolutely walk on ice and keep their mouth shut and say nothing because the silence of being a bystander is the only thing that protects them from the vicious bullies in our community. So I decided that the spark I'm going to pick up is the concept of turning point, everything about what Charlie Kirk did is Lars what I do when I engaged with my community on social media. I'm one of the very few people in the Island who will actually speak up honestly and respectfully, and not be bothered by the haters,and I'm interested in talking to you about the idea of creating a turning point movement for people in their 40s and 50s on up.
You had no empathy for Melissa Hortman or Gabby Giffords.
Your tears and empathy for Kirk are nothing but endorsement and an attempt to demonize the left for what was in fact a far-right wing shooting. The shooter was raised in a Republican, Christian home and was associated with Groypers.
Empathy without judgment is just sentimentality in disguise. > After a man broke into the home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) in 2022 and struck her husband in the head with a hammer, Kirk urged his listeners to post bail for the attacker. He called George Floyd a “scumbag” and described passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 as “a huge mistake." - “Reject feminism,” Kirk urged Taylor Swift, in a video that has garnered 7.5 million views on TikTok. “Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” - Kirk has built a career on confusing cruelty for courage and covering it with a smile.
Thank you for defending civility even when it is under assault. We are all tempted to act as if civility is something to be celebrated if it means asking our opponents to keep quiet. Your work, and these events, help us to see that civility demands sacrifice. Civility makes sense only if there is something more important than my own physical and emotional comfort. If I truly believe in truth and justice, then disagreement is an opportunity to learn, teach, or achieve reconciliation. Will I sacrifice my ego and serenity for these goods, or vice versa? The choice is difficult for all of us but we must support each other in making the right one.
Alexandra,
I picked up your book about civility. I'm pretty sure as an audible book and I really really really appreciate your angle on that topic. Also, I am committed to picking up an ember or a spark from Charlie Kirk's torch and I'm going to carry it forward and I was asking myself how am I gonna do this? I live in a midnight blue part of Washington state on an island where people routinely assume when they make nasty statements about how they wish the president was dead or how they're happy that Charlie Kirk was murdered. They say it with the full assumption that everyone in the range of hearing is in complete agreement with them. I also Personally know dozens and dozens of people who are good Americans, who are conservative and real Christians who absolutely walk on ice and keep their mouth shut and say nothing because the silence of being a bystander is the only thing that protects them from the vicious bullies in our community. So I decided that the spark I'm going to pick up is the concept of turning point, everything about what Charlie Kirk did is Lars what I do when I engaged with my community on social media. I'm one of the very few people in the Island who will actually speak up honestly and respectfully, and not be bothered by the haters,and I'm interested in talking to you about the idea of creating a turning point movement for people in their 40s and 50s on up.
I'm not buying this nonsense.
You had no empathy for Melissa Hortman or Gabby Giffords.
Your tears and empathy for Kirk are nothing but endorsement and an attempt to demonize the left for what was in fact a far-right wing shooting. The shooter was raised in a Republican, Christian home and was associated with Groypers.
Empathy without judgment is just sentimentality in disguise. > After a man broke into the home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) in 2022 and struck her husband in the head with a hammer, Kirk urged his listeners to post bail for the attacker. He called George Floyd a “scumbag” and described passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 as “a huge mistake." - “Reject feminism,” Kirk urged Taylor Swift, in a video that has garnered 7.5 million views on TikTok. “Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” - Kirk has built a career on confusing cruelty for courage and covering it with a smile.
Thank you for defending civility even when it is under assault. We are all tempted to act as if civility is something to be celebrated if it means asking our opponents to keep quiet. Your work, and these events, help us to see that civility demands sacrifice. Civility makes sense only if there is something more important than my own physical and emotional comfort. If I truly believe in truth and justice, then disagreement is an opportunity to learn, teach, or achieve reconciliation. Will I sacrifice my ego and serenity for these goods, or vice versa? The choice is difficult for all of us but we must support each other in making the right one.
Well said.
Unfollowed. All this talk over somebody who literally had no respect for anyone who wasn’t white and/or male.