Many people are dangerously deluded by the idea that words, especially from figures like Kirk, are just empty opinions floating in the air, detached from real-world consequences. In reality, rhetoric is one of the most powerful tools of influence: it shapes public…+
…opinion, normalizes violence, and provides ideological cover for oppression. When someone with a massive platform repeatedly vilifies Palestinians and other marginalized groups, it does not exist in a vacuum; it strengthens the political will of those in power, justifies…+
…the machinery of war and occupation, and fuels grassroots hostility that directly translates into discrimination, surveillance, and even bloodshed. And just because you get to consume him as a short clip in your endless doom scroll does not mean he is harmless…+
…or neutral. That distance does not erase the fact that for others, his words materialize as bombs over their heads, checkpoints at every turn, or the daily suffocation of systemic vilification. To then reduce him to “just another father and husband” is not some humane…+
…perspective, it is a dangerous moral evasion that erases the real harm he enables.
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