From the piece:
If Charlie Kirk’s horrific assassination hit you in a deeply personal way, maybe in part it was because he was doing what you are too afraid to do but knew you should. Maybe you’ve been cowering when you could be more courageous, and you know you are enabling the very tyranny that intimidates you. No system reforms when those who wish for change hold their breath and hide. Maybe it’s time that you stop whisper-shouting behind your keyboard and put your money where your mouth is while you still have a voice.
Before it's a war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theradicalcenter/p/are-you-cowering-behind-the-courageous
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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
I appreciated how they tried to parse their positions on free speech, getting people fired, extremism/violence, tribalism. I do agree we need to be judicious and not act merely out of emotions. https://pca.st/episode/c0aa125f-f44b-47c0-948f-e93cc6cdeb97
Here's J.D. Vance hosting the Charlie Kirk Show. Only posting bc there's about a two minute section where Vance and Stephen Miller talk about how they understand the logistical framework around "Leftist violence," and what they intend to do about it. Start at 13:30. It's only about two minutes--the extent of Stephen Miller's remarks.
This is worth hearing. These guys are close to the operational decisions made by the executive administration. They sound like they mean what they say here, and this is in stark contrast to Bondi's statements about shutting down "hate speech" (that term is hate speech, as far as I'm concerned), and Establishment alarms about a Trump attack on speech.
We're all entitled--and ought to--disagree with these guys about how they understand the framework here, which is basically a funding system of NGOs funneling donor money to boots-on-the-ground Antifa types. The point is to be clear about what they think and what they're trying to do.
Start at 13:30
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Just listened to Boyce's conversation with Auron Macintyre, post Kirk death. While it takes a minute to get rolling, once it does, Macintyre offers some of the pithiest, most efficient explanations of what the Right is and what it's doing that I've heard from him, so it's worth dipping in. Try starting around minute 20.
Macintyre sounds angry. At the end, I think when he's talking about Kirk's wife and kids, he actually chokes himself up a bit, so it may be that his tone reflects emotional control.
Somewhere in this conversation, Macintyre references J.D. Vance's hosting the Charlie Kirk Show, and a moment where Vance and Stephen Miller lay out what the administration's goal is when it comes to disrupting "Leftist violence." That is worth listening to--you have to get these things from the horse's mouth. Posting that next.
