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October 2, 2025 43 mins

There's an ask, since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, for a return to "civility" in our political discourse. I'm here to tell you that "civility" is a luxury for only the privileged, and it's more obvious now than ever.

When Elon Musk is calling for the shuttering of the Southern Poverty Law Center and he and FBI director Kash Patel see the Anti-Defamation League as a hate group, they're looking to silence arbiters of bias and hatred instead of the amplifiers of bias and hatred. Does that warrant our "civility?"

Sadly, the ADL caved! I mean, wasn't that Musk and Patel's intent?

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo tried "civility" with Musk, and was told directly by Musk to "piss off." Is that "civility?"

Roxanne Gay, New York Times contributing opinion writer - a bisexual black woman - says "civility is a fantasy." AJC op/ed writer David Plazas says "civility" isn't enough; that we need to show each other "mutual respect."

So how does one respect people who pathologically lie to perpetuate a political movement hell-bent on the continuation of marginalizing an American majority to the benefit of the long-empowered white conservative patriarchy?

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