when he died he was doing exactly what we ask people to do on campus: Show up. Debate. Talk. Engage peacefully, even when emotions run high,”
In no way do I believe what happened to him was ok. He did not deserve that, but I'm also not ok with re-writing history just bc so many seem to want us to.
Kirk was never engaging or debating. He was using his influence to control the narrative by providing misleading information with no factual evidence and no intention of changing the narrative he was trying to control or even acknowledging any evidence that countered it.
It's what abusive individuals and authoritarians always do.
Pretty sure David French is a conservative, but it seems like he and Ezra Klein are attempting to do the same. Using the NYT as a perceived liberal platform to control the narrative, regardless of the facts. It's exactly how state controlled media sounds in Russia, and it's all that will remain if we keep allowing it to happen.
It deserves to be called out. Just know when people get sick of listening to it, t's not bc Ezra Klein was "cancelled by the intolerant left who eventually eat their own." (Although, I have no doubt he'll probably pivot to a pundit position on Fox News to help provide their narrative that they're also presenting a "balanced" argument).
It's bc people are simply looking to you to keep them informed, not to tell them how to think and feel regardless of facts. Inevitably, they will smell bullshit no matter how you try to dress it up.
Eventually people just get sick of being gaslit, and either they move on rather than continuing to trust someone they know can't be trusted or they slip into the Fox News mindset that this is just normal and their only option bc all news exists to spread the narrative of the people that control it.
“I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness,” Klein continued.
Ok, he was clearly a bought and paid for piece of shit who existed to spread disinformation and now so are you. You suck, Ezra and David French. Different opinions don't mean it's ok to help dictators create their own reality or rewrite history.