"I forgive my husband's killer, but we need to send him to god immediately for eternal forgiveness."

I hope Charlie's killer gets killed by firing squad.

Jimmy's Back.

SUuck on that.

He went away for programming reasons... brain programming

Meep morp Trump is the best... God is good... Trump is the best

I am happy for you, bro.

Cheers,

So in 2014 LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, was banned for life from the NBA and forced to sell his team due to racist remarks he made - those remarks were widely condemned and everyone at the time said it was clearly racist.

What did he say that got him banned?

Those two statements were enough to get him banned for life from the NBA yet 11 years later we have a huge catalog of Charlie Kirk saying many things of a similar nature but folks like Hehe will go around saying he's not a racist and just misunderstood.

Was Donald Sterling wronged? Should Sterling have been allowed to keep his NBA team? Was Donald Sterling just misunderstood?

Supa there is no point trying to rationalize some people's arguments in favor of the hateful crap Charlie Kirk spewed.

There has long been a history of attempting to normalize anti-black ideologies and sentiments within the US. Charlie Kirk was a standard bearer of that goal. That normalization has come so far from 11 years ago that here we are arguing with people to "prove" Charlie Kirk's words were racist in the first place.

This just shows you how Trump, and this whole MAGA movement has been so successful in moving the narrative and proverbial goal post in such a short amount of time.

The schism on this whole thing is even more apparent in the NFL, another sports analogy.

When players were kneeling back in 2016, players were suspended, the outright outrage on the right was palpable with cries of "keeping politics out of sports".

Less then a decade later, teams are jumping on board (or perhaps forced) to assign a moment of silence to commemorate a racist political podcaster in a league full of black dudes. The teams that did not participate are being attacked online by government officials within the Trump admin, and Trump himself.

Funny times we're in.

Things have shifted so far right it’s a completely different spectrum now. If anyone would have been saying that shit in 2015 at a college campus they’d get knocked the fuck out by the third person they said it to at the very latest. Now you have half the population not only justifying it, but treating it as the second coming (or third?) of Jesus. It’s really embarrassing, as I think millennials and Gen Z will be the first generations which will be MORE racist than the previous generation.
Oh but the CONTEXT of saying the civil rights act was a mistake! THE CONTEXT ITS NOT RACIST

They went so extreme in 2016 that nothing seems extreme anymore. And on top of that they've built a cult around it

Bromigo, I agree with you.

Also just LOL @ Charlie having only a high school education. He uses so many boomer arguments during his debates.

I still don't think he deserved to die the way he did. That was a pretty sad moment for America. The symbolism of shooting someone you disagree with during a college debate at a public campus with an audience. Pretty bad look, brah

My understanding from a friend who is a pilot (co pilot?) is that you start on the bottom rung ( in his case flying for pacific coastal etc) and need a lot of experience to move up to the larger airlines . As is the case in many industries..like just because you go to cooking school doesn’t give you the experience to be an exec or even sous chef. You need the real world experience as well as the technical qualifications.
Wasn’t there at some point on here someone involved in the airline industry ( pilot maybe)? Be interesting to hear from his/her perspective ( I realize this was only a cherry picked scenario by Kirk in this situation trying to create a wedge issue).

Lastly I have a friend who is a crown prosecutor and we were discussing the idea of him becoming a judge . He’s white / male. When I asked him what the prospects of that happening was he said “ well I’m not really the right demographic etc of what they are looking for”. Or something along those lines .
He went on to say they were trying to diversify the roster of judges to include more Indigenous , women , etc ( anything besides white men and to some extent white women).

I was a little annoyed on his behalf because I thought he is/was qualified and being not seen as a good candidate because he’s white seemed unfair. To his credit he mentioned he was totally ok w it . We talked about how important representation is in places like the legal system. And while I understand it and ultimately agree with it I still find it hard to square that circle sometimes .

What the crux of the issue is with Charlie Kirk is his false assumption / assertion that you have to drop qualifications in order to achieve representational hires. It’s not true in technical aspects like pilots and not true in more esoteric things like Judges. The judges they are hiring now are every bit as qualified as my friend . They’ve just also have the bonus of bringing with them representation which is an important qualification in the legal ( and health ) system .

I mean that and that it’s a dog whistle ( whether or not he meant it that way).

Good on your friend for his take on this - depending on the domain/sector a white male may be genuinely disadvantaged due to DEI in that the rebalancing is so aggressive that new candidates are negatively impacted but on the whole, the diversification efforts are just rebalancing an existing injustice - ie, white males were so over-represented for so long that what's happening isn't bias for minorities but equalisation.

In software development we were seeing women be ~35% university graduates (depends on the decade you look at) but we'd somehow only end up with 25% of intermediate developers being women and then something like 10% of mangers being women. So when tech companies say we want 35-40% of their devs to be women, they're really just trying to get to the numbers that they see coming out of school.

What I've learned from pilots in my family is that to get the hours a lot of them start out flying bush planes to places almost nobody has heard of. Pacific Coastal would've been a big upgrade over the stuff they were doing lol. If someone has made it to where they're piloting for any major airline they've got a lot of experience and they're a solid pilot.

What exactly did he say that's polarizing? Again, don't cherrypick fragments of his speech. Give the full context. You might not agree with his ideas, but it's neither polarizing nor dividing.

Far too often I see lefties being completely ignorant about what the actual world is.

Why is racism/sexism or whatever not an issue in countries like Japan, China, Brazil... etc? Is it because they don't have discrimination over there? No. It's just they don't take it much of an issue other than personal belief/opinions.

Here we have the entire MSM making such a big deal out of it. I'm not saying that racism is ok and we should tolerate it. No. But it should NEVER be used as an excuse to force believes upon others.

Just because I don't agree with Muslims religion doesn't mean I discriminate against them. Just because Kirk said he didn't agree with TQ+ doesn't mean that he discriminate against them. Just because the society is done taking refugees doesn't mean that we discriminate them. Just because we don't want them to be praying to Allah or whoever in the middle of the street doesn't mean we are religiophobia.

It's a difference in opinions. While we respect each others' belief, it doesn't mean I need to take your belief as mine. It's always "agree to disagree". But these newcomers to Canada/Europe/US... they don't want you to disagree. If you don't agree to their ideology, you are discriminating against them. WTF is that? Here is Canada. If you don't want to adapt to the Canadian value, either go somewhere where your value is shared or learn to accept that there can be other values besides your own.

This is shocking, even from you.

Japan is on a whole anti muslim tirade.. you know why? They're tired of these migrants taking over their culture and rightfully so.

Aren't these people supposed to assimilate to Canadian values? Like the rest of you immigrants on this goddamn website (myself included).

No racism in Japan you say?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ds-immigration

LOL @ no racism in Japan... holy shit man you ever sat down with a Japanese resident and heard them go off about "fucking mainlanders" buying up property surrounding Tokyo or turning some distrcits into "little China" or all the "no gaijin" establishments around the city. I had Japanese gf's in the past and heard them say this stuff on the reg and can only assume it's gotten worse in the last 10 years.

Nevermind sexism? The fact my ex-gf had to sign a contract with her employer that if they promoted her, she promised not to get pregnant? That she was encouraged to not get married or if she did not to wear a ring so that they could use her to act suggestively to other company's higher ups when they're trying to do favourable business with them? The numebr of times a manager asked her for sexual favours if she wanted a good review? And this was no fucking small company either, we're talking Deloitte & Touche Tokyo here.

I love Japan but man anyone saying there's no racism or sexism issues there is getting their info from a FUCKED UP land of denial.

It's not a public issue because they're AFRAID to challenge the patriarchy en masse... they're AFRAID of mass cultural change in a culture designed to punish/ostracize people who don't stay in line. That's not a trait to be admired in another country. As for the racism well you just can't understand Japanese because they talk about that shit non-stop all the time, quite loudly and easily.

What a bizarre head shaker of a take.

japan not racist.. ya tell that to my ancestors who lived through japanese occupation lol

Every time Hehe opens his mouth he reveals himself to be an even worse person than we all thought.

@bcrdukes ... there are real racist and there are pretend racist.

Leave hehaw alone !!! He’s a rich human

You see what money does to people ?!!!!!?

It’s very easy to not acknowledge racism and sexism when you’re racist and sexist.