She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk
She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-black-women/
So it’s as bad as it sounds, if not worse, as he’s specifically speaking about accomplished people of color. I’m starting to think this Charlie Kirk guy wasn’t particularly kind.
Lemmy is friggin’ hilarious. I get modded down for stating a fact. You post a snopes link which supports exactly what I said and you get modded UP.
I can’t know why you were downvoted. I generally don’t downvote and didn’t in this case. But were I to speculate…
You pointed out a distinction without a difference. And the way you defended yourself preemptively makes you sound like you knew very well you were being pedantic and what the result would be. It doesn’t contribute anything of value to the conversation and leaves one with the impression you disagree it was outrageous to fire her — else why issue a meaningless “correction”?
I don’t know why you did that, but I strongly suspect your downvotes are related to that thought-process.
Yeah - I’ve been around the internet before. You say “A” and you get 30 responses immediately for not saying “B”.
You don’t think I would have been accused of defending Kirk? Have you just created an account on social media for the first time?
Mate, I don’t really care. I responded with the idea that you were frustrated in good faith and just struggling with a bout of well-intentioned 'tism. I’ve been there before so I could relate.
Also, welcome to the internet has been cringe for over twenty years, and I’ve been here since social media was alt.rec.your.mom.
Of course you got accused for defending Kirk because there is no fathomable point to your post other than being disagreeable. The qualitative difference between what was said and your correction is nil. You knew what would happen, your preemptive protestations did nothing but make it clear you knew what you were doing and chose violence. But somehow “Lemmy” is the problem and not your comment.
Well, have it your way. I’m moving on.
I mean - I’m not frustrated - more amused than anything else. My hypothesis is that nobody actually read the snopes link and just assumed it said something otherwise. 🤷
Definitely disagree here. They were clearly just trying to emphasize the importance of being correct, since being incorrect gives conservatives a way to argue against your point, even if it’s stupid and flimsy, it can be seized on.
There is no actual difference between “Black women” and “You [black women]”. Anyone who feels it is arguable isn’t worth the effort to engage them because they aren’t coming at the conversation from a place of good faith anyway.
Tell that to the Republican who now can accurately claim a misquote happened. You don’t need to convince me.
You could try working on using neutral tone if you want more internet points here.
Oh yeah. If I just posted that the quote was bad I surely wouldn’t be currently defending myself against accusations of “supporting Nazis”.
“Quote was bad” is going to get less internet points than “Quote was incorrect.”
“Bad” is tonally different from “incorrect” because of the added value judgement.