The only reason this idea was ever advanced was wishful thinking by people who wanted to have their cake and eat it too. People who wanted to be glad Kirk is gone without the ‘guilt’ of acknowledging that political violence can be a force for good or that ‘their side’ is capable of it.
This was immediately obvious to anybody who wasn’t actively wishing they could wash their hands of it politically. ‘Oh he dressed up as a gopnik for halloween once, and I found this pepe version of a gopnik, pepe is a groyper meme therefore he must be a groyper’
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The only reason this idea was ever advanced was wishful thinking by people who wanted to have their cake and eat it too. People who wanted to be glad Kirk is gone without the ‘guilt’ of acknowledging that political violence can be a force for good or that ‘their side’ is capable of it.
This was immediately obvious to anybody who wasn’t actively wishing they could wash their hands of it politically. ‘Oh he dressed up as a gopnik for halloween once, and I found this pepe version of a gopnik, pepe is a groyper meme therefore he must be a groyper’