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The Shift After Charlie Kirk

posted 1 month ago by ApexVeritas on scored.co (+0 / -0 / )

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I've been noticing a big shift in attitude on the right after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Right wingers have realized that it doesn't matter how moderate they are, how much they debate, how many points of logic they may win over their opponents, how much they capitulate on any number of issues, how nice they are...they'll (the moderate normies) get murdered too, and our enemies will call us every name in the book (racist, Nazi, etc.) and dance on our graves.

This feels like a "screw it" scenario, where a whole lot of normies on the right are done being nice, are embracing the names the left calls us, unironically, and have entirely stopped being nice or fighting fair. There's even large groups of right wingers, even normies, who are ready for violence. Essentially, the moderate/mainstream/normie position is dead, and it died with Charlie Kirk.

I've been experiencing this in my own life, too, even at work, hearing conversations I'd never thought I'd hear from political normies. For example, hearing people talking about, and be disgusted by, the murder of Iryna Zarutska, even though that story was extremely censored.

I'm curious, have y'all noticed anything similar in your own lives?

detransthrowaway on scored.co

1 month ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / )

It's too early for me to definitively say "It's happening" but I agree in that the moderate right was murdered that day. A once-in-a-lifetime event has shifted the paths of millions of Americans. Undoubtedly its consequences and ripple effects will be outstanding, but in the short term it's unusually quiet. The last time this happened (1968, with Dr. King) the Holy Week Riots left lasting damage so strong that there supposedly remain sections of Baltimore to this day that have never been repaired. I've seen almost nothing major, which I would wager is because of the sheer amount of current events. Britain just had its largest protest ever. Nepal burned for a few days. The National Guard is policing major cities. I could go on. My point is that the public is overwhelmed. We don't know what to take action against. It may be a push into chaos, or it could be waiting for us to become normalized to the stress we are being put under.

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