• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”

    Was he wrong?

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      3 hours ago

      No but he wasn’t let go because of that remark.

      He was let go for this

      “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this.”

      That’s what kicked of the uproar by snowflake Republicans and their Pearl clutching.

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      5 hours ago

      wow. so his “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” line lost him his job?

      tucker Carlson did so much worse for years and was lauded for it. I guess because it was aligned with the networks priorities…