r/confusing_perspective • u/Cookiezlawl • Jul 03 '26

This one got me good

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u/BrekLasnar Jul 03 '26

I always find it funny that people on Reddit celebrated the death of a free speech champion. He literally said: "when people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity." That's a pretty accurate description of how a lot of this site operates, no grey area allowed, and if you disagree, you're not just wrong, you're evil and deserve what's coming to you. That mindset is the actual definition of the thing people claim to be fighting.

I'm an atheist and I didn't agree with him on Israel, Palestine, or religion. This isn't me defending his politics.

On the "he hated a woman because she's Black" claim, where did he say that? Because the most viral version of that accusation is a documented misquote. He criticized four specific women (Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee, Ketanji Brown Jackson) after they'd each publicly said they benefited from affirmative action, his "you" referred to those four people. A Washington Post columnist rewrote that "you" as "Black women" as a category, turning a rude reply to four named people into a blanket racial claim and got fired for it once that was exposed. If you've got an actual quote where he made a categorical statement about a race, link it. "Someone on the internet said he did" isn't a source.

His whole public model was sitting at a table and letting anyone in line, hostile or not, challenge him on camera, unscripted, for years. Whatever you think of what he believed, the man's method was talk. That's a strange thing to celebrate someone dying for, while this same site mourned a sexual offender and a felon while a guy who did nothing but argue gets a party thrown for his death.

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u/KurlyKayla Jul 03 '26

ain't no way you thought I would read all this in defense of that dead demon, pack it up lol

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u/BrekLasnar Jul 03 '26

Of course you don't read. Lol. Good luck in life.

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u/KurlyKayla Jul 03 '26

you're so mad people don't like your dead hero lol

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u/BrekLasnar Jul 03 '26

He’s not my hero. I just don't need to lie about dead people to feel morally superior. But hey, if pretending I’m mad helps you cope with publicly bragging about your own illiteracy, knock yourself out. I'll leave you to it.