Look, your blanket stereotype of "liberal atheists" is bullshit and it's just bad as some atheists who say that everything about Christianity is awful.
Democrats are anti-Christian? Please. We just think there's room for more than one color and one religion.
I'd sooner be shot in the head than vote for Trump.
If he wins, you'll see myriad atrocities committed in the name of Jesus. The Christian nationalists are playing for keeps. Educate yourself.
I'm not a far left voter. I'm a pragmatist. That's how I reconcile issues when possible. But thank you for your diagnosis.
This Trump devotee is the GOP candidate for Governor of North Carolina and he thinks some people need killing. I will not support these bastards.
Man, the young turks sure have polarized since the last time I watched a video from them a decade or so ago, or maybe I'm just forgetting.
I got a little curious and actually watched, below is what I could find of the evidence that the video quoted from. Figured I'd summarize to save you all a watch.
First, here are the fullest quotes I could find of the speech being discussed:
“We now find ourselves struggling with people who have evil intent.
You know, there was a time in which we used to meet evil on the battlefield. Guess what we did to it: we killed it! We didn’t quibble about it. We didn’t argue about it. We didn’t fight about it. We killed it!
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, what’d we do? We flew to Japan and we killed the Japanese army and navy. We didn’t even quibble about it. I didn’t start this fight. You did.
You wanted to be left alone. you should have left me alone. We didn’t argue and capitulate and talk about well, maybe we shouldn’t fight the Nazis that hard. No, they’re bad. Kill them!
Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to.
Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”
and a bit later (still the same context?) :
“When you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled. Or those boys in blue and have them go handle it.”
Source:
https://ncnewsline.com/2024/07/05/lt-gov-mark-robinson-at-nc-church-meeting-some-folks-need-killing/
The video commentators say that this is all thinly veiled code for a call for (extrajudicial?) violence, and a fantasy about committing said violence. They say that the audience gets the
real message, and is getting all worked up by it.
Finally, they bring up several snippets of social media posts from him and use them as support to claim he's a holocaust denier.
First post with the bit they quoted in bold:
"The center and leftist leaning Weimar Republic put heavy gun ownership restrictions on German citizens long before the Nazis took power. This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash. Repeating that hogwash makes the conservative argument against the current attempts by liberal Marxist to push Unconstitutional gun control measures in this Nation look FOOLISH."
Second quote with the video's bit in bold again:
"There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the '6 million Jews' they murdered. There is also a REASON those same liberals DO NOT FILL the airwaves with programs about the Communist and the 100+ million PEOPLE they murdered throughout the 20th century."
The video's quibble is that he put '6 million Jews' in quotes.
Source:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/11/mark-robinson-hitler-holocaust/
Decide for yourselves if you think the quotes support the video's positions. Personally, I don't think I'll be watching TYT again.
