I’m trying to envision what it would look like for conservatives to stop being like this. What sort of thing might need to happen for them to wake up get over this ridiculous persecution complex they’ve built up.
If you’d asked me a couple weeks ago I’d have thought that having one of their own gunned down by another one of their own would do it. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Instead they’ve run in the opposite direction and with the Kirk shooting, they seem to be using one singular data point to say the shooter is from the left. So far we’ve heard his roommate is trans. From there it all sounds like speculation. Were they in a romantic relationship? Did they ever talk about Kirk at all? We have no facts to answer with yet but some people are more than happy to pretend their opinions about it matter. All while ignoring the multiple data points that suggest he’s more right wing, possibly very far right instead. The two halloween costumes. Being raised in a gun culture by a right wing family.
I don’t know what will eventually derail this nonsense but I suspect it will be a bit like the Epstein files and Trump. Something absurd that they should have seem coming a long ways off but act suddenly surprised about. And it’ll include something extremely hypocritical like not caring that Trump is directly implicated but more that he isn’t letting them know which Democrats they can hate on over it.
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We’ve seen with the fundagelicals for the past 40 years that some people are simply not happy unless they’re being persecuted--and if no actual persecution is happening, they’ll make up persecution out of thin air.
As I’ve said previously, I’ve been in a particularly intense email debate with a Dutch friend who joined a megachurch (started in the USA, metastasized to other countries), who got the ball rolling by emailing me that Christians in the USA are being hunted. She then went on to compare Kirk to JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. (something I found shockingly offensive). She’s no scholar of US history; she’s being fed these outrageous lies. She’s also been adamant about how Kirk’s first amendment rights were violated, forcing me to try to educate her that the first amendment says the government can’t censor a citizen’s speech. Other people have the right to object or not give a platform to someone. Then I introduced the actual violation of the Constitution--of course, as usual, perpetrated by Trump and his misadministration--in ordering companies to fire people whose speech Trump didn’t like.
She won’t get it. She refuses to. She just repeats over and over again that Christians are being hunted and no Christian is safe in the USA. I’ve concluded she loves the frisson down her spine imagining how persecuted Christians are.
I’m trying to envision what it would look like for conservatives to stop being like this. What sort of thing might need to happen for them to wake up get over this ridiculous persecution complex they’ve built up.
If you’d asked me a couple weeks ago I’d have thought that having one of their own gunned down by another one of their own would do it. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Instead they’ve run in the opposite direction and with the Kirk shooting, they seem to be using one singular data point to say the shooter is from the left. So far we’ve heard his roommate is trans. From there it all sounds like speculation. Were they in a romantic relationship? Did they ever talk about Kirk at all? We have no facts to answer with yet but some people are more than happy to pretend their opinions about it matter. All while ignoring the multiple data points that suggest he’s more right wing, possibly very far right instead. The two halloween costumes. Being raised in a gun culture by a right wing family.
I don’t know what will eventually derail this nonsense but I suspect it will be a bit like the Epstein files and Trump. Something absurd that they should have seem coming a long ways off but act suddenly surprised about. And it’ll include something extremely hypocritical like not caring that Trump is directly implicated but more that he isn’t letting them know which Democrats they can hate on over it.
We’ve seen with the fundagelicals for the past 40 years that some people are simply not happy unless they’re being persecuted--and if no actual persecution is happening, they’ll make up persecution out of thin air.
As I’ve said previously, I’ve been in a particularly intense email debate with a Dutch friend who joined a megachurch (started in the USA, metastasized to other countries), who got the ball rolling by emailing me that Christians in the USA are being hunted. She then went on to compare Kirk to JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. (something I found shockingly offensive). She’s no scholar of US history; she’s being fed these outrageous lies. She’s also been adamant about how Kirk’s first amendment rights were violated, forcing me to try to educate her that the first amendment says the government can’t censor a citizen’s speech. Other people have the right to object or not give a platform to someone. Then I introduced the actual violation of the Constitution--of course, as usual, perpetrated by Trump and his misadministration--in ordering companies to fire people whose speech Trump didn’t like.
She won’t get it. She refuses to. She just repeats over and over again that Christians are being hunted and no Christian is safe in the USA. I’ve concluded she loves the frisson down her spine imagining how persecuted Christians are.