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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 92 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is how we counteract the current attempt to canonize him: remind people of what he actually said. Apparently calling him "divisive" is enough to get you fired from a TV gig. But we can't deny what he said, in his own words.

But imagine a statue of Charlie Kirk, placed prominently on the National Mall, with an inspirational quote like:

"If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because affirmative action?"

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 43 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Because he’s never spoken to a moronic white woman on a customer service call?! How is he even certain of the race of people he’s talking to on the phone? It couldn’t possibly be that there are morons in every facet and stage of life, regardless of race, could it?! Even in, say, the hate speech-fueled public speaking industry?!?! How was this tiny-faced rage-muppet able to live debate anyone?

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He's the kind of evil dipshit who would have legislated to pay people as close to zero-per-hour as possible, hired people at that hourly slavery rate, and then bitch that they weren't dedicated workers.

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

God himself could have descended from heaven, after spontaneously deciding to give a shit about humanity, and touched Kirk's forehead endowing him with all knowledge in the universe, and after Kirk's tiny mind finished exploding, his hateful racist mouth would still manage to sputter out "yeah but DEI is unfair to Rich White Men!"