While I don’t have any time for him, and the world is a better place without him, the point of those screencaps is the claim that some portion of the (US) population had a totally sanitised view of him, that didn’t include all the reasons we detest him.
Their point is that “The few bits of him that people heard about were plenty enough to know exactly what kind of a person he was.” isn’t true (supposedly, I’m skeptical). Supposedly there is a group of people in a bubble that only saw Kirk preaching kindness and light and none of the awful stuff.
Sounds hard for me to believe but that’s the claim (which you aren’t addressing).
Many rightwing Christians live in a sanitized bubble on social media so they won’t see the racist content from Kirk because they avoid other “edgy” content so the algorithms do not supply this content.
While I don’t have any time for him, and the world is a better place without him, the point of those screencaps is the claim that some portion of the (US) population had a totally sanitised view of him, that didn’t include all the reasons we detest him.
Their point is that “The few bits of him that people heard about were plenty enough to know exactly what kind of a person he was.” isn’t true (supposedly, I’m skeptical). Supposedly there is a group of people in a bubble that only saw Kirk preaching kindness and light and none of the awful stuff.
Sounds hard for me to believe but that’s the claim (which you aren’t addressing).
Many rightwing Christians live in a sanitized bubble on social media so they won’t see the racist content from Kirk because they avoid other “edgy” content so the algorithms do not supply this content.