Ingrid WALSH

It’s very, very important to me, given the post I have, to say: I see you. But also: This dude was wrong.

I’m all for unifying, I’m all for bridging gaps, but not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity. I just can’t.

If you think it is OK to dehumanize people, then conversation between you and me is probably not possible.

Welcome to Black America. That’s our history.

I guess what I want from you is I want you to take as seriously people who are in the tent and who are vulnerable and afraid. And if you have to convince them of something that’s extremely, extremely uncomfortable, or tell them that you’re taking a position that is extremely uncomfortable, I just think you owe them a little more.

Political violence is the norm for the Black experience in this country. It just is.

if you ask me what the truth of his life was — and the truth of his public life — I would have to tell you it’s hate. I’d have to tell you it is the usage of hate and the harnessing of hate toward political ends.

And I think Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger.

Taking political positions that’ll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn’t want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

The assumption embedded in this style of operating—encapsulated by Silicon Valley’s famous “move fast and break things” ethos—is that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. A certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for creating the future.