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Consequence culture is making martyrs (unherd.com)
1 point by binning 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I had trouble getting past the opening of this article:

>Felker-Martin made two celebratory Bluesky posts. “Thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch,” read one. “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Kirk,” read another.

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>That made Felker-Martin one of the many Americans to have been fired or disciplined for being insufficiently respectful towards Kirk.

"insufficiently respectful" is NOT how I would describe those tweets.

Celebrating political violence, or some similar phrase is how I would describe it.

The rest of the article falls into the typical "the left" and "the right" type arguments, more and more often I find those to just be stereotypes that people imagine and argue with, but have little basis in reality.




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