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This is the correct reaction to have. It's a good excuse for me to shoe horn in shoe0nHead's reaction that went semi-viral and for many people put into words exactly what they were feeling. And something about it seems especially poignant in the style of a sleep deprived, unedited, 1000 word run on sentence. It ends with
The last few days have been the clearest demonstration of evil I've ever witnessed. Teachers, doctors, lawyers, federal employees, friends, family all jubilant that a man different from me in the smallest of degrees was publicly executed, and his wife, not very different from my wife, and his children, about the same age as my child, are now widowed and fatherless. And they cheer. To bounce it back to shoe
And if it happened to you, they'd go over everything you ever said online, and cherry pick the worst of it, or the worst of it they could take out of context. And then tens of millions of people would receive their talking points and go around repeating how you deserved to die because you said "X". Did you actually say "X"? Did you actually say "X" in they way they thought you said "X"? Doesn't matter.
I've been beating the drum for over a year, and occasionally got in some mod trouble, that the left is roiling up their base to pogrom the right. Can there be any more doubt? Teachers are celebrating the murder of an innocent father and husband, publicly, under their real name, and we leave our children with them 40 hours a week. I keep seeing people push back "How do we know he was radicalized at college?" Now we don't have the ironclad chain of evidence to show. But we can plainly see that even in the moment he's shot, the crowd at that college is cheering. Sure looks like a radicalizing environment to me. Makes me wonder what the fuck they've been teaching there.
Why do you care so much? It’s just some crazy teachers, doctors, lawyers, federal employees, friends, family on campus, bro.
Also: first time? It was basically in the Paleolithic era when Sam Hyde said “these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny.” I think anthropologists even found a cave painting in Spain of this quote depicted with stick figures.
The same teachers who do things like celebrate the murder of a law-abiding white conservative father will then act incredulous that some large subset of white conservative fathers is against things like drag queens interacting with their children in school. Surely white conservative fathers have no probable cause to think progressive teachers don’t have their children’s best interests in mind?
I don’t know anything about shoe0nhead beyond what’s been discussed here, that Tweet of hers, and from a brief Googling. However, for a SJW-critical economic leftist internet personality, it strikes me that it takes a certain amount of blindness, naivete, or willful obliviousness to have not at least wondered earlier that if—as a white mother of a white child—she’s at best a situationally useful idiot ally to the left and an enemy by default (except when there’s potentially a greater enemy at hand: white men).
I was gritting my teeth somewhat skimming her Tweet, due to the lack of capitalization (who does she think she is, hbd chick?), run-on-sentences, and general wall-of-textiness, but I powered through (I know, I know, what a heroic act of Emotional Labor). Interestingly, much of her stream-of-consciousness sounds like her independently arriving at the viral Tweet that “If you call yourself leftist, you can get away with embracing non-socialist economic positions, and won’t be kicked out of the club by peers. You can not get away with not affirming black worship, trannyism, and replacement migration. Therefore, that is what leftism is”:
Better late than never, I suppose.
It can move them all right, albeit contrary to the direction for which shoe0nhead might hope. As The Motte has discussed before, many people have an instinctual disgust reaction to seeing a white mother with white children, even with father not pictured. I suspect white mother and children with white-father-not-pictured-due-to-a-minor-case-of-murdered will not be an exception here.
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I do not think it is because being a father means nothing to them. Rather that, because Kirk is their enemy, he is worse for being a father - either he created more evil children or his innocent children were forced to live with an evil father.
A relative expressed that at least Kirk couldn't force his daughter to not have an abortion from rape.
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I went and read all her tweets over the last few days. I really think the assassination genuinely shifted her political views and view of the current political climate. She seems quite distressed about the whole thing. Some of this would be because she is also a moderate influencer with a fairly large platform, who is married with kids. Many in that position (some on the left too) feel very vulnerable right now.
I think there's a large amount of people like shoe that thought a lot of the spicy takes and fascist labeling from the far left was just rhetorical larping. Now however it seems the radicals actually did drink the koolaid and see even moderate right wing influencers as goose stepping Hugo Boss enjoyers.
She was always an economic-left / cultural-righ type. I don't think her views changed much at all outside of coming to certain unflattering conclusions about the state of the contemporary left.
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