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Nope. You changed the nature of the point. I said "at institutions of higher learning." Influencers nowadays can be anyone--professors, the Kardashians, and anyone with a microphone and an audience. Like Kirk. How much of his content is consumed at universities? My guess is a lot based on what I read here.

That's part of the point here. Nearly everyone has said things that are objectionable. The Kirk stuff might be the most objectionable. Or it might not be. It's certainly the most recent, and it's certainly pervasive. But I wonder if we're going to establish a thought police and speech police how many people are going to get swept up in it. I don't know where he's employed. But JD seems to be calling for the private sector to act on comments like his. So should Don Jr. be terminated from whatever private sector position he might hold?

Nobody said you did. Don Jr. did, or at least indicated that he found the assault funny. The thread isn't about you. It's about him.

Nope. I don't. You project that. Or want to think that. Or something else. Point is, the "liberal" viewpoint historically was predominant at institutions of higher learning. But maybe that has started to change in the past several years. And, if the "liberal" viewpoint previously was a problem, then t's fair to ask why the "conservative" viewpoint that apparently now is much more prevalent on campus and on line somehow is not seen the same was as the former viewpoint.

Life is a matter of degree. So what I take from this is not fatal = funny, but fatal = right wing wokism?

So you acknowledge that he could have manipulated young people in a way similar to that of which you accuse the "libs" of doing?

Yeah he's gotta leave if he said that at that time. No doubt.

OK. So what about people cheering the assault of Paul Pelosi? It is not the same because he did not die? Or because you share the viewpoints of Don Jr., and disagree with those of Paul Pelosi?

They may well be. But they obviously listened to Kirk based on what I've read here. So perhaps it is that you're, shall we say, a bit hypocritical and selective in focusing on the "libs" influencing impressionable and inexperienced college students.

I'd be a lot more confident of that were it not for the whitewashing of J6. I'll add that it's hard to persecute hyperbole by engaging in hyperbole.

Me neither. I don't care what the private sector does on its own volition. I'm troubled by the federal government bullying/pushing the private sector to act a certain way, though. It's reverse wokism, if you will.

Totally agree. I thought it was early to make the point, but Woke is now a "Right" issue.

Agreed. So why cancel all of those people?

So they all supported or joked about a violent felony assault perpetrated against the husband of the former Speaker of the House?

Also, how do you know that college students pay more attention to faculty than they do to, say, online videos and podcasts? Because you know you'd land on the previous question. It's nice to have a boogeyman. But it's hard to ignore that Kirk had reach, that he had schlock, and that he might have done the same thing that you're accusing the "lib" professors to have done.

All I did was ask a question. There's nothing partisan about that. Care to answer it?

Same with Kirk. We're cancelling people about that. But why not Pelosi? Is it because he didn't die? Or is it because his viewpoint doesn't align with yours?

Again, you undermine it. And it's interesting that the guy who searches a message board to find quotes about and from Internet randos chastises someone else for an obsession.

Did they get the same from schlock (prove me wrong, based on the assumption that I'm right) from people like Charlie Kirk?

There we go. That's how it works.

Applying JD's logic with respect to the Kirk murder to the Pelosi assault, the answer obviously is yes. What say you?

Likewise in your biased opinion. We agree to disagree. See how this works?

I'm not arguing about the fatties. It's a problem.

They tried to undo 200+ years of law and order. That's pretty bad, too. Which one is worse? From an historical perspective, easily and obviously J6 insurrectionists.

That's the thread. So much for knocking down inflation.