Charlie Kirk Discovers There’s No Safe Space From Stupidity
In a stunning development that surprised absolutely nobody who has ever spent five minutes on social media, conservative pundit Charlie Kirk has discovered that the internet is not, in fact, a safe space for his particular brand of discourse. The Tyler Robinson Method, as it’s now being called in Berlin’s intellectual circles, represents a revolutionary approach to public debate: actually expecting people to make sense.
Kirk, who built his career on the foundation that college campuses are oppressive thought-police zones, apparently never considered that his own rhetoric might face scrutiny in the digital public square. The Robinson Method simply involves pointing out when someone’s argument has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese left out during a Berlin summer.
What makes this particularly delicious is the irony. For years, Kirk has championed the marketplace of ideas, insisting that the best arguments win through vigorous debate. Apparently, he assumed his arguments would be doing the winning. The Robinson approachwhich some German media theorists are comparing to Socratic dialogue, if Socrates had access to Twitter and a really good fact-checkersimply takes people at their word and examines whether their logic holds up.
The methodology is devastatingly simple: listen to what someone says, check if it makes any sense, and then ask follow-up questions. It’s the kind of basic intellectual rigor that would make any Berlin university professor weep with joy, and apparently, it’s Kirk’s kryptonite.
What’s particularly amusing to observers in Germany, where robust political debate is considered a national pastime, is watching American conservatives discover that “free speech” means other people get to respond to your speech. With their own speech. Using facts and logic. The horror.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/tyler-robinson/
SOURCE: Bohiney Magazine (Öko Angebot)
AUTHOR: angebot@bohiney.com
Tyler Robinson’s Discourse Revolution