• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Children getting shot in schools so often we’re numb, but when one guy who told us to be numb about it gets shot and you’re not sad, you’re fired.

    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      He just apologized for saying that Kirk called for the stoning of gays, which wasn’t technically true.

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          13 days ago

          “And it says, by the way, Ms. Rachel, might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters”

          I dont get it, he literally advocated for stoning gays, calling it “God’s perfect law”

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            13 days ago

            No no. He was, “just saying,” not advocating. Completely different.

            I for one “just say” things all the time even though I don’t mean them. It’s a bit like Tourette’s really.

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        13 days ago

        I hated Kirk as much as the next Lemmy user but I think he’s right to apologize. He parroted a technically-incorrect statement and the right thing to do is to acknowledge it. The world has become wayyyy too ok with “close enough” and “sounds true” attacks.

        As soon as a rumor starts, a meme is “made” with every applicable template. I watched it happen real time in the comments of a now-deleted misinformation post about the Kirk shooting. Those memes are surely still circulating despite being proven false and 99% of people aren’t gonna fact check.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Nazis extremely dislike it when you call out their hate.

    All you have to do to piss off a nazi is to point out the last few things that they did. They’re not grounded in reality at all. That’s why they’re so dangerous.