Erika Kirk, sign language and Calibri

Erika Kirk has repeated the usual defense of her murdered husband Charlie’s racist and sexist comments: they were taken out of context! In the articles I’ve seen about her recent CBS interview she doesn’t provide any context; in one case she says she doesn’t know it. But her husband was a wonderful human being who didn’t have a bigoted bone in his body, so the context has to be wrong!

(On a side note, the interview was a turkey as far as attracting advertisers and eyeballs)

That’s arguing backwards from the conclusion she wants (Kirk was an angel!) to rewrite the facts. The context for his claim he feels unsafe when he sees a black airline pilot was that airlines are hiring unqualified POC because of DEI, but that’s an assumption, not a fact. As I’ve said before, if it was legal to discriminate against blacks and women in hiring, people who make this argument would never wonder if some unqualified white person had got the job. Nor does Kirk’s calls to crush feminism or claims Democrat men are all low testosterone benefit from context.

That put me in mind of another Kirk oddity: “Can we please just do away with giving half the screen during these emergency briefings to the sign language interpreters?” Apparently the context for that is that the Felon doesn’t like having sign language interpreters when he speaks because it’s bad for his image. I would guess the context for the Felon’s decision is some kind of bigotry against the disabled — as witness Marco Rubio declaring the Biden State Department using Calibri font (supposedly easier for people with visual disabilities) was DEI crap and they’re switching back to Times New Roman.

Which explains, I think, why they’re losing support: I can’t imagine that even among the most loyal Republicans, anyone who’s not directly affected will be thrilled by this typeface policy or the opposition to ASL interpreters. A number of people might get even more pissed. But they just can’t help themselves.