The New York Times Magazine posted a 2,500-word essay, likely bound for the next print edition of the Sunday magazine, by far-left Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones: “What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed.” Hannah-Jones was the force behind the paper’s discredited revisionist history The 1619 Project, which tied the founding of America to slavery.
The headline deck to this callous piece, another failed and personally obnoxious attempt at ideological revisionism:
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views.
And like her 1619 Project, it’s full of misstatements.
She led with an anecdote about a leftist friend's petulant refusal to let his 11-year-old daughter grieve after hearing about Kirk's murder in front of his wife and daughter.
As a Christian, Durant also felt he had to address Kirk’s version of Christianity, which condemned and disparaged people who are gay and transgender. Kirk once posted, “The pride and trans movements have always been about grooming kids.” And, in another instance, he had pointed to a passage in the Bible that said men who lay with other men “shall be stoned to death,” saying it “affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”
But as author Stephen King found out after a reckless post on the topic, Kirk wasn’t arguing that the United States should copy the passages in Leviticus into law but was quoting “the Bible as part of an argument about how others selectively choose quotations,” according to the liberal fact-checkers at Snopes.
A couple of years ago, Angel Jones, now a professor at a university in Maryland whose work focuses on educational inequality, joined the hundreds of professors across the country who found themselves on the list.
This headline from the blog Legal Insurrection gets more to the point: Professor Demands Black Faculty Get Paid Leave to Deal With ‘Racial Battle Fatigue.’
The next day, Jones went to the class she taught on misinformation and disinformation and showed her students a short Instagram video she had made in response. In the video, she says that while she does not celebrate Kirk’s death, she also refuses to mourn him. “I cannot have empathy for him losing his life when he put mine at risk and the lives of so many other educators just because we dared to advocate for social justice,” she says in the video, “because we dared to do our jobs.”
Her “job” as a professor is to spread leftist propaganda? The author explained sympathetically that Jones was so nervous about the reaction of a “white male student in her class” about her lack of empathy that she “switched her classes to virtual for the week.”
The past few weeks have filled Ash Lazarus Orr with a similar sense of foreboding. Orr has been at the forefront of resisting efforts to target transgender Americans, including as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit brought by the A.C.L.U. against a Trump administration’s policy that would prevent transgender people from having their chosen gender on their passports.
While Orr was never named by Kirk, they say Kirk’s rhetoric helped fuel an environment that makes transgender Americans vulnerable to violence and that has paved the way for the removal of their civil rights....
The inalienable right to lie about your sex on your passport?
Hannah-Jones kept finding radicals to quote, like anti-Israel UCLA history professor Robin D.G. Kelley, on the pro-Israel Canary Mission’s watch list for his affiliation with radical anti-Israel campus groups.
Kelley pointed to the fact that Trump was widely condemned during his first term when he called the white supremacists who rallied in Charlottesville, Va., “very fine people.” Now, Democrats and political centrists were lining up to honor a man who promoted the same Great Replacement Theory that served as the rallying cry for that march….
Regarding Charlotteville (take it away again, Snopes), Trump went on to say that “I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.” But these days who expects a supposed historian to tell the truth when the liberal lie goes unchallenged by corporate media?
