Alaric

“An artist can only hope that they will be remembered.” Writer / Artist / Colorist /#Voidforged @TheVoidforged / #ComicsGate / pro-libertarian #IronAge

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

I did this image in 2006. Arbitress, the Aethyr of Fate falling unconscious into Indigo's arms. Aethyrs are an immortal angelic-like race of beings. Shape-shifters with immensely powerful abilities. They are bonded together...
#art #comics #comicbooks #comicsgate #teamcomics

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

I asked Copilot a question. In its response it labeled @charliekirk11 as 'far right', I corrected it. It then cited its sources as @MSNBC & @CBCNews. "That kind of rigor doesn’t just sharpen me—it sets a precedent. Every time someone like you pushes back, it creates a ripple."

[Wavedancer 228 @Carlb228]

@WallStreetApes

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

@EsqAndTwins @Timcast I thought you might appreciate this article: Setting the Record Straight—The Left’s Legacy of Chaos: A Dive into the Numbers of Political Violence Since 2016
https://t.co/rsqGHOBruo

[L G B @L__G__B]

Save the tomboys ✊

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

@Asmongold I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing a family member is never easy. But you've had to deal with losing both of yours relatively close to one another. Gonna miss all those times he called you to tell a story. I trust you will keep his memory alive and know that people care.

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

I don't care when you boo. I've seen and heard what makes you cheer.

[Amala Ekpunobi @amalaekpunobi]

If you're considering leaving the left....

[savage daughter @DonnaPrissyrn1]

They done woke up Milo 😂

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Charlie Kirk didn't even believe in race.

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

@MartinaMarkota I would send them a link to this video and then tell them you will be happy to accept their apology: https://t.co/Pshq7bMmIO

[Amir Odom @amirxodom]

Debunking The Biggest Lies Told About Charlie Kirk

(0:00) - Intro
(10:58) - On Second Amendment
(12:48) - On Empathy
(15:42) - On Gay People
(17:58) - On Trans People
(24:21) - On Racism
(28:21) - On Affirmative Action
(30:58) - On Critical Race Theory
(34:56) - On Illegal Immigration
(39:12) - On Abortion
(44:22) - Charlie’s Why
(49:48) - Liberal Threats
(50:55) - Leaving The Left
(52:29) - My Thoughts

[Ruffdraft @kristine_ruff]

@TaraBull808 Her Part 3.

https://t.co/YIO2SmI0mX

[GrumpierByTheDay @GrumpierBTDay]

First, let me say, I was not a "fan" of Charlie Kurk.

I saw occasional videos of him engaging in debate. I was not broadly exposed to his ideas. His Christian flavor of addressing topics didn't speak to me, for I am not a Christian, nor did I resonate with all his positions, nor had I interest in his format.

But he has, truly, in the eyes of the Christian right especially, become a martyr.

In his death, however, I'm finding myself visiting his material, if nothing else than to make sure I'm not participating in the spreading of disinformation.

I suspect Charlies assassination is the second most important political event of my life, behind 9-11. It's the single most important event of the cohort beneath me.

And I think it's important to recognize that it's not just the assassination that's material. It's the gleeful response from millions of our countrymen.

So right now, it is extra important to get facts correct.

One of the grievances of the right (and there are several which are material) is the constant slander, misinformation, and hateful labeling which has been going on for a decade. Long enough that a whole generation of left-leaning young adults believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the right is made up of literal facists and nazis and racists. To such a degree that millions of them would feel comfortable going online, under their real names, to celebrate, dance, mock, and piss on the assassination of a man they believed was one of those things.

Unless that slanderous pattern can be acknowledged, addressed, and corrected, the problem will get worse.

The risks of wider civil and political violence get worse.

I hoped the slander would stop at Chalie's death.
At least for him.
It appears it has not, and unless we can collectively call out this behavior, I fear there will be no end.

Unless it is addressed, calls to "turn down the temperature" will fall on totally deaf ears.

In fact, unless it is addressed, calls to turn down the temperature from anybody viewed as complicit will instead fan the flames.

It will be viewed as a hypocritical gesture from people who have been told time and time again that their flippant attaching of the worst evils in mankind to their political rivals will inevitably result in death.

So I wanted to point to a particular example of the problem. To demonstrate this principle.

I understand a single case study is just that - a single example. I don't expect it to solidify a pattern in anybody's eyes that doesn't already see it.

Nevertheless, I think it can be useful demonstration and data point.

PBS NewsHour, which I assume most would consider a centrist platform, aired this segment on Friday: https://t.co/ZT0CBuj6Pt

The link will bring you to timestamp 6:59, the meat of the problematic clip starts at 7:28, and runs until timestamp 7:49.

The context of the segment is an introduction of Charlie's influence over right-wing politics, especially with the youth, followed by a brief comment about about how "controversial" he is.

And then transitions to the problematic example clips.

These clips represent a horrific character assassination by virtue of misleading editing, intentional removal of context, and levies unsaid but common charges (racist, white nationalist, extreme anti-gay, etc).

It is explicitly designed to portray him as something, and somebody, he is not.

It is designed to justify the labels "racist", "facist", "nazi", "white nationalist" etc still being used all over the news. To prime you to fully accept those labels next time you hear them.

This character assassination, even in his death, by what should be a preeminent news organization, is exactly what's wrong, what has been wrong. And it's this kind of content, if it continues to proliferate, will lead to escalation.

Let's address these clips, what they are intended to portray (the labeling charge they support), and why they are wrong. Not just wrong. Dangerous.

Clip 1:
"And the Civil Rights Act, though, let's be clear created a beast and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon."

The intent: To demonstrate Charlie is a racist and a white nationalist.

A longer video, of many, articulating his view: https://t.co/bIPgOsy3ux

A summary of his view as best as I understand it:
The civil rights act created a new doctrine in 'disparate impact' which has fueled ineffective law and policy, such as 'soft on crime' policies designed to eliminate criminal justice disparate impacts etc... It has fueled corporate DEI policies which *have* been explicitly anti-white from time to time, and arguably more importantly anti-meritocratic where it matters (such as doctors and pilots, addressed in the next clip).

I don't know whether I agree with him. But having an opinion on the deleterious downstream effects of disparate impacts does not make one racist.

On the contrary, during his life Charlie championed many Black and Minority voices. He had close relationships with, mentored, and funded Black and minority leaders and causes. The internet can provide abundant evidence of his humanity and leadership in this regard.

Clip 2.5 (two moments spliced as one):
"Surgeon and flight are the top two. You're going to remove my appendix and you're a Black lesbian."

The intent: To further demonstrate Charlie is a racist.

The original video, clip is at 50:19: https://t.co/xBNgMWbvsf

Here's a fuller transcript.

Note the show is called "Thought Crimes":
```
KIRK: You wanna go thought crime? I'm sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I'm gonna be like, "Boy, I hope he's qualified."
KOLVET: But you wouldn't have done that before!
KIRK: That's not an immediate … that's not who I am. That's not what I believe.
NEFF: It is the reality the left has created.
KIRK: I want to be as blunt as possible because now I'm connecting two dots. Wait a second, this CEO just said that he's forcing that a white qualified guy is not gonna get the job. So I see this guy, he might be a nice person and I say, "Boy, I hope he's not a Harvard-style affirmative-action student that … landed half of his flight-simulator trials."
KOLVET: Such a good point. That's so fair.
KIRK: It also … creates unhealthy thinking patterns. I don't wanna think that way. And no one should, right? … And by the way, then you couple it with the FAA, air-traffic control, they got a bunch of morons and affirmative-action people.
```

Here is another "fact check" pulling together larger context: https://t.co/JGSq3ys2Ja

My commentary: This is more egregious than the last one. An opposition to affirmative-action programs, especially in life or death roles, where pure meritocracy should be the qualifier, is *not* a fringe position on the right.

Nor does it make one racist, unless you have a particularly leftist conception of "racism", which again, the broad right and middle doesn't ascribe to.

Note this is a direct corollary to the disparate impact element that is the basis of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

Clip 3:
"And Leviticus 18 is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying."

The intent: To demonstrate Charlie holds *extreme* anti-gay views.

I can't find the source *video*, but here's the podcast audio original context.
Relevant material starts at about the hour mark: https://t.co/R7z8cQjAwC

My commentary: This one is *even more* egregious.

The actual context of Charlie saying those words is in reaction to a different video. He is demonstrating how people can *misquote* the bible, and *misuse* it's messaging.

He is reacting to somebody else's errors!

This one recently made the rounds in a different format, such that Stephen King, the author, was tacitly supporting Charlie's death ("look what a bad guy this was!").

Stephen has since reviewed the original material, and issued an apology. I note not because Stephen King is particularly important, but because it's a demonstration of how quickly these clips have tainted the discourse, and to provide you a verified "second opinion" considering I have neither easily available transcripts nor complete timestamps, which makes it harder for me to help you navigate and acquire the information.

Clip 4:
"Children of the West are being taught with primarily Jewish dollars subsidizing it to view everything through oppressor/oppressed dynamic."

The intent: To paint Charlie as a rabid antisemite.

Charlie was a staunch supporter of Israel and Jewish causes. As an Evangelical Christian, that shouldn't be shocking.

There are anti-semetic segments of the alt-rightbut Charlie Kurk was NOT among them.

The charge contained in this clip, that he was an antisemite, is so very maliciously wrong.

Charlie was discussing, and has discussed elsewhere, the issue of broad Jewish donor money support for "Cultural Marxist" ideas and organizations.

He asserts the causes funded by that money are fundamentally incompatible with Western ideals, and is a backfiring proposal. These discussions were topical after Oct 7, where the broad "campus left" turned hard against Israel to be strongly Pro-Palestine, and very frequently explicitly Pro-Hamas.

As best as I understand it, as I'm not steeped in Israeli or Jewish-American politics, but this is no great logical leap, is that the sudden and strong *support* of Oct 7th was jarring to many progressive Jews (and looking at donation stats, to the best of my ability to interpret it, American Jews are primarily progressive, although not a monolith).

I can't quickly source the original clip. Here are two alternative clips demonstrating Charlie's commentary: https://t.co/CYvwuCMN9c
https://t.co/SO5qjjk6l2

When searching for the original of this clip, I found a factcheck\.org page dedicated to many of these claims: https://t.co/93AJQokhx1

The heading "jewish money" is about halfway down the page.

In closing, I want to reiterate the fact that it is the very problems demonstrated by PBS in this clip that have gotten us to this point.
I can show you a decade of intentionally malicious character assassinations - intentional determined by the frequency, intensity, their easily disprovable nature, and unrepentant "corrections" weeks or months after the fact.

Our elected leaders, our media, our educational institutions, all have become comfortable in, and have made a strategic choice to use, the terms 'nazi', 'white supremecist', 'threat to democracy', etc. over a decade against people who do not deserve it.

Violence, assassination attempts, and now actual assassinations, were always the predictable result, as we constantly tried to warn.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. God bless America.

[Amir Odom @amirxodom]

Debunking The Biggest Lies Told About Charlie Kirk

(0:00) - Intro
(10:58) - On Second Amendment
(12:48) - On Empathy
(15:42) - On Gay People
(17:58) - On Trans People
(24:21) - On Racism
(28:21) - On Affirmative Action
(30:58) - On Critical Race Theory
(34:56) - On Illegal Immigration
(39:12) - On Abortion
(44:22) - Charlie’s Why
(49:48) - Liberal Threats
(50:55) - Leaving The Left
(52:29) - My Thoughts

[The Last Cypherpunk 🏴‍☠️🇵🇱🇺🇲 @Cyberiusz]

PART II

[Mary 🇺🇸 @MaryRoss815]

@TaraBull808 I’ve got a cheat sheet- Charlie didn’t hate anyone and the millions of bots trying desperately to convince you otherwise are just lying to you!
RIP Charlie 🙏 you are missed.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

She researched the clipped quotes of Charlie Kirk's being taken out of context and what she found was incredible

Critical thinking is a wonderful thing

[Greg 🇺🇸🇬🇷 @gregissnacking]

As a gay man, it enrages me to hear people call Charlie Kirk homophobic. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Listen to his response to a question from an ACTUAL homophobe.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Dave Smith: "These dumb*ss lefties celebrating, what exactly are you trying to start here? ... Go live your f*cking weird lives with your f*cking pink hair and your 70 genders... but don't sit here and pretend you're ready for a f*cking fight."

[Alaric @alariclabrie]

@ImMeme0 This has to be satire. Godless whore? Slut factory?

[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

Unlike the left.. welcome