Okay, what the actual fuck is “the Kirkiversary”? Apparently, we’ve reached the point on the internet where the anniversary of someone’s murder is being turned into a fucking joke. For those who somehow haven’t encountered it, “Kirkiversary” or “Kirkversary” has been circulating online as a meme surrounding the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death. People haveContinue reading “The Kirkiversary Is Not Funny”
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The Laugh Reacts: What Watching the Left Defend a Rich Kid Taught Me About Tribalism
I want to start with the moment that actually broke something open for me, which was not some grand political betrayal or a policy fight, it was small, almost embarrassingly small, it was a string of laugh react emojis under a comment I made pointing out that Luigi Mangione grew up wealthy, went to oneContinue reading “The Laugh Reacts: What Watching the Left Defend a Rich Kid Taught Me About Tribalism”
When Compassion Becomes Conditional: The Violence of Selective Empathy in America
Empathy and compassion should be the foundation of any society that hopes to thrive. They are not luxuries to be extended only to friends or allies, but necessities for the survival of a diverse and fractured nation. Yet in America today, these values are increasingly treated as conditional, given only to those who pass certainContinue reading “When Compassion Becomes Conditional: The Violence of Selective Empathy in America”