Starting this Wednesday, there will be a new weekly feature tentatively named “Charlie’s Voice.’
The goal is to produce a persuasive article to carry Charlie Kirk’s voice forward.
The guidelines are something like this:
- Take a left-leaning stance, position, or statement at face value.
- Listen to the statement/argument as if a single person were presenting it to you, face-to-face.
- Extract from the statement/argument the actual points of the person presenting.
- Using persuasive language, present your counterargument in such a way that it brings that person closer to our ideals and goals.
- Maintain neutral language, no gotcha phrases, no barbed zingers.
I do not expect this to be easy, which is why I’m asking for help from you.
Submissions go to info@troglodite.com. We’d prefer a Google Doc, LibreOffice document, or a Word document. Submissions will be edited for grammar and may be sent back with red pen if more than grammar changes are required.
Please include the byline you wish to have your article published under.
Examples
If you want to write on these topics, feel free; I’m putting them out here now because I will be working on something for Wednesday.
President Trump is a felon.
Example response:
You are correct; Donald Trump was convicted in a New York state court of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
If there are 34 counts, does this mean that Trump was convicted of 34 different crimes? The court says yes; maybe you won’t agree with the court.
Over the course of nine months, Trump signed 9 checks to Michael Cohen. The checks were normal checks with a memo line. The prosecution claimed that the text on the memo line was fraudulent, resulting in 9 different counts. Because that memo line was repeated in a ledger, each entry in the ledger became another count.
The prosecution decided that there were 4 counts for each check that Trump wrote, leading to the 34 count number. All of which were for the payment of one bill.
This would be similar to you buying a new set of golf clubs on credit, then writing a check once a month to pay off the bill, but instead of writing “New golf clubs,” you wrote “Entertainment.”
The prosecutor’s argument was that anything apart from “hush payment” was fraudulent.
There will be more, of course; this is just the start.
I look forward to your submissions.
“President Trump is a felon”
That is a great example.
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Diversity is our strength.
What about diversity makes it our strength? What I hear from people advocating that position is that when we hear from different voices, different cultures, different backgrounds, we often identify solutions we were not seeing because our own background was blinding us to it. I agree, is some instances, that is true, and hearing from diverse backgrounds can open our eyes to different perspectives.
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But, how does that make it a “strength?” Does your grocery store make a higher profit if they have a diverse workforce? Is the produce fresher? Will an IT company provide better programming because their staff is from several different nations? How does that improve the coding? Can you identify any industry that is hampered by a lack of diversity?
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Tell me, when the head coach of your favorite sportsball team is selecting their starting line up, do you really think anyone is looking at their backgrounds? When a band is getting together, do you really think anyone says the drummer must be of a different heritage than the bassist? Whenever skills matter, whenever experience makes a different, everyone will select the most qualified, not the most diverse.
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So, tell me how it is a strength?
its a “strength” to weak minded people who use it to appease a guilty conscience…
its also called reverse discrimination..
and racist..
Someone once said to me that DEI was necessary until a debt was paid off. They did not have any answer to what debt, who owed it, and to whom. But, in their world, committing an injustice apparently erases a previous injustice.
“President Trump hates immigrants.”
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No, President Trump hates criminals. Enter the country illegally, and you are a criminal.
’nuff said