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    Affirmative action or not, Michelle graduated cum laude from Princeton after she got in. She had the same coursework as everyone else.

    Charlie Kirk was unable to complete community college, and has no real college degree.

    However, he does have a fake Honorary Doctorate from Liberty University in 2019 because he hated the libs hard enough.

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    My favorite thing about Charlie Kirk is that, regardless of your political standing, nobody can tell if any still image of him actually has a correctly sized face.

    My least favorite thing about him is his continued existence.

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      People are slowly leaving twitter, which was his forum to rage bait. Now it’s just an army of bots and idiots that agree with him. There’s a reason Nazis can never keep to themselves, cuz if they did it would be like 10 people.

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      It’s good to know what each side of the aisle is talking about. Sometimes it is pretty stupid, but they believe it.

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      “Loud mouth community college dropout critiques cum laude Princeton grad for not being smart enough”

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    Did Huffpost shrink his face with photoshop or does he normally look like some kind of cursed sock puppet

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      “Arrest this person, they said something I don’t like!”

      Dude’s a certified sexist and racist douche and deserves to be ridiculed for what he says, but I’ll defend freedom of speech. Doesn’t mean he has freedom of consequence, but he can say whatever he wants.

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          Sadly, it is not. Hate speech is just speech in America, protected by the first amendment like any other form of speech.

          Furthermore, there are zero laws that outlaw racism, because the people writing the laws have historically been the racists. They aren’t going to outlaw their own words.

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      For PRISON?? Over a racist statement? That’s mental. I think he’s a fucking racist moron but I’ll defend his ability to speak freely.

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        Then we need to educate people better. Once you hit the point where the hegemony decides idiots are more useful to their goals it begins to breakdown. The People are left stupid and vulnerable and they begin to cling to any mouthpiece that is loud enough. A vicious cycle initiates where hatred and fear are the only offspring. If we aren’t going to take education seriously we need to watch what statements people are gravitating towards. Least we wind up with the common man investing in evil ideology.

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          I completely agree, and wherever you live I hope that you vote on improving public education for your state. I certainly do in mine, and we’re represented by people who share that mindset as well. The problem is there’s a high chance you live in one of these places too whereas many other states have declining public education standards and the voting base doesn’t seem to care, or actively distrusts education unfortunately.

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          No… No it’s not. I’m not sure where you’re getting your law books from.

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            Racism is not a crime in America then? Can I just travel over there and go throw around racial slurs?

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              Hate crimes are what you’re thinking of here. Racism is awful but it’s not illegal. Saying racist things and verbally harassing, threatening, or abusing people are two very different things.

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      As racist and stupid this statement is, it’s not reason enough for prison. Putting people in prison for saying something mean or dumb is the exact kind of thing the GOP would want to be able to do to anyone they deem “too woke”. Let’s not lower ourselves to their way of thinking.

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        Here in Brazil we had a politician who accidentally slipped a racist anecdote, he was forced to resign.

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          If he were a Democrat and he said something like that he’d be forced to resign too, but for the GOP (at least the fringes), this is pretty on brand.

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    When Obama was elected, I remember someone telling me, “they’ll never get over this, it will break their brains.” They weren’t wrong.