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The man the right is idolizing, in his own words.
May 19, 2023: “Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.”
July 13, 2023 (referring to Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Shirley Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson): “You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
2023: “The philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.”
2023: Jews control “not just the colleges — it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.”
January 3, 2024: “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?”
January 23, 2024: “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.”
March 1, 2024: “The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.”
April 1, 2024: “We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.”
June 11, 2024 (on stoning gay people to death): It is “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”
April, 2025: “Large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America."
August 22, 2025: “America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.”
August 26, 2025: “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”
September 8, 2025: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”
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There is no such thing as an illegal human being
"Wait!"
'Why are you doing this'
'how did you get into my home'?
"please don't'
yammer yammer nag nag.
From Sweden to Austin.....
Let Freedom Ring (for those who want it. Not my style by a longshot)
No. of Recommendations: 18
You had better be very careful. There’s nothing that angers the Charlie Kirk fans than quoting Charlie Kirk at them.
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When a hate-filled uneducated white man murders another hate-filled uneducated white man, how many Black female journalists have to be fired?...
Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired from the Bezos owned Washington Post for accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women.
https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-...
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Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired from the Bezos owned Washington Post for accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women.
Saw that earlier in the day. She was the last remaining. black person on the editorial/op.ed. staff. Now she’s gone.
It only confirms my choice made last fall to drop my subscription.
I once appreciated WaPo’s “Democracy dies in darkness.”
Now I see those words as Bezos’ actual plan.
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Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired from the Bezos owned Washington Post for accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women.Well, whether it's an accurate quote is a contested issue. His supporters are strenuously arguing that it wasn't. But I don't think
that's why she got fired. I think the more likely reason are these quotes:
One of her posts read, “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.”
In another, she wrote that she refused to “tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence.”https://www.thedailybeast.com/bezos-washington-pos...Or as she put it in her substack, "They rushed to fire me without even a conversation — claiming disparagement on race. "
Attiah didn't get the memo. The
WaPo doesn't want their employees making comments singling out "white men" as a racial and gender category, especially if they're going to imply that they are less deserving of something than other groups by virtue of their race and gender. In the next few years, a
lot of heat is going to be directed towards people who talk about white men (or white people generally) in ways that indicate hostility or resentment or even "less-than-ness" about them or their place in society. Conservatives have the whip hand now, and they're going to use it against folks who categorize white men and white people this way. Probably with the same fervor and lack of prior warning/grace that they feel they were treated in prior cultural shifts on talking about race and racism.
Attiah failed to notice that the world had changed. Many institutions will be implementing a new definition of what it means to be racist, and it will include posts like the above. The day where it was generally okay to say these sorts of things about white men are over, in many places. There will be few (if any) "conversations" with people that are newly considered racist. Rather, we'll the same sort of summary firings that attended prior attitudinal shifts about past behavior that is newly considered unacceptable by TPTB.
Watch your tongues when publishing to the entirety of the English-speaking world, kids!
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This is the quote, but I think Al has the better take.
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social .
"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
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Great response Al thanks!
A couple of quick mentions:
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Well, whether it's an accurate quote is a contested issue. His supporters are strenuously arguing that it wasn't.It is an accurate quote...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-bla...2)
Watch your tongues when publishing to the entirety of the English-speaking world, kids!You can actually say anything you like about Women, Black Folks, Jewish Folks, Minorities, as was proven by Charlie Kirk, (kinda?) but you sure as heck better watch your tongue when talking about christian white men.
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It is an accurate quote...
It's not.
From your post, here is the entire quote (from your link), with the altered word in bold:
If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us! They're coming out and they're saying, "I'm only here because of affirmative action."
Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
Charlie Kirk did not utter the sentence "Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously." He said "You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously." Attiah revised the quote.
Now, you can revise a quote to replace personal pronouns with the objects they are referring to - especially if what you're excerpting cannot be understood without doing so. Words like "it," "them," "you," "he" or "she" can be replaced with the actual names/objects being referred to. However, if you do that, you want to do two things.
First, you want to provide some indication to the reader that the language you're using is not what the speaker literally said. So, for example, either:
"[Black women] do not have the brain processing power...." or
Black women "do not have the brain processing power...."
In both the above, the quoter has made it clear that the original speaker did not use the words "Black women" as part of the actual sentence. That alerts the reader to the change made by the quoter (and makes it pretty clear that you're replacing a pronoun).
Second - and super importantly - you should never do this if there's any ambiguity about what the speaker is referring to with the pronoun, without some additional clarification. In the original quote, there are (at least) four different categories of people that Kirk could have meant when saying "You" in "you do not have the brain processing power":
1) The four individuals he mentioned;
2) Black women who gain from affirmative action, and then admit to it unprompted;
3) Black women who gain from affirmative action; or
4) Black women.
Attiah chose #4 - and it was misleading to do so. Not because that's an indefensible reading of the quote. It's certainly a plausible reading of what Kirk meant when he said that sentence. But it's not the only plausible reading, and it's probably not the most likely reading. It might very well be what he meant, but it's definitely not what he said - and that's definitely not appropriate when quoting.
You can actually say anything you like about Women, Black Folks, Jewish Folks, Minorities, as was proven by Charlie Kirk, (kinda?) but you sure as heck better watch your tongue when talking about christian white men.
I don't think that's true necessarily true. There's tons of places that Charlie Kirk would not have been able to work at (or even walk in the door at) based on his past statements; and similarly, there's probably a bunch of places that will welcome Attiah as an employee despite her comments.
But I think the writing on the wall is pretty clear. Conservatives have been agitating forever against the belief that, as my daughter has told me, "you can't be racist against white people." Academic analysis of racism in sociology is grounded in considerations of power - one needs both racial prejudice and the ability to act on/enforce it. Individual acts of racial prejudice can be committed against white people, but "racism" cannot properly be understood to embrace actions against white people, and certainly not when discussing sociological issues or talking about racial issues at the cultural or societal level (as Attiah did).
As I said upthread, conservatives are now in charge of a lot of institutions, and that sociological reading of racism is going out the window at those places. They don't agree with it, and now they don't have to follow it. It will now be just as racist to talk about white people as a group if it would be racist to talk about black or brown people as a group in that context.
It's going to be quite a dislocation for people who have grown accustomed to being able to talk about racial matters in a certain way. It's going to be very difficult for those who have a lot of public statements about race using language or phrasing that the New Powers That Be are going to now categorize as racist.
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You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.
It (the term "You" quoted above) could also refer to Attiah. And he missed it completely.
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OR you could've not helped the Right take power.
But hey, "WAPO"! is back.
