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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I really don't get how people can see what Charlie Kirk has said and celebrate this man's message. Our country is already fallen to idiocy.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

They don't see what he said. Most of the probably haven't actually listened to him or even thought about him before this.

But even if they had listened to him in the past, or looked him up now, the grounding bias of "he's a good person"/"he's on our side" has been established. That's a bias that's nearly intractable.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 8 points 3 hours ago

It's because to them the only thing that mattered was his in-group status. He was a "great Christian", not because he followed Jesus, but simply because he identified as such and did it loudly.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

He was willing to die for his beliefs and he did, I say based