How Do You Spell Hate? T-E-X-A-S.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Edwin Eisendrath

This is where all holocausts begin. The notion that some people are destined to rule and others to be ruled. The idea that maybe those others are not people at all.

“I’m glad he’s dead.” That’s what Donald Trump said asked about the passing of Robert Mueller. Mueller was a revered public servant whose final job was to look into Russia’s attempt to interfere in the 2016 election. Trump’s remark was ugly, but he suffered no consequence for it.

“Charlie Kirk was going to hell.” That’s what Ellie Fischer, a law student at Texas Tech and founder of the school’s NAACP chapter is reported to have said. The school investigated and issued a formal reprimand. The investigation wasn’t a one-off. In the weeks after Kirk’s assassination, the Texas Education Agency opened investigations into more than 100 school districts looking for inappropriate comments about the murdered agitator.

Texas law requires every college campus in the state to erect a statue of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was an effective MAGA propagandist, making it safe for a new generation of Americans to engage in racist, homophobic, and antisemitic hate. The law requires each statue to be 8 feet tall. Kirk must be shown with “an aura of destiny and posture of defiance.”

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/how-do-you-spell-hate-t-e-x-a-s

[pfitz59]

1. Is this a bad joke?

Right next to the statue of Trump?

[Igel]

9. Yes, actually, it is.

But the satire was lost on a lot of people. As satire often is if you're not in the right mindset for it. (So I've seen a lot of left satire taken as completely true. When it obviously wasn't.)

https://spacexmania.com/texas-state-announces-all-college-campuses-to-have-charlie-kirks-statue-hes-our-hero/

September 16, 2025 by Alex Bruno

Categories: Satire

In a move that has shocked academics, delighted conservatives, and thoroughly confused sculptors, the State of Texas announced this week that all public college campuses will be required to erect statues of late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

1. The state legislature hasn't been in session since before Kirk's murder. So no law could be passed.

2. The original claim wasn't "State of Texas" but "Texas State."

So it started as a bad joke, and now the bad joke's become the people that think this is an actual bit of reality that's true.

[wcmagumba]

2. Texas was pretty much that way 40 years ago when I lived there for a year, I decided to leave...

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Same here.

I lasted a bit longer (3 years), but stopped at the border when I left to piss on TX on my way out. Never been back.

[Joinfortmill]

3. Excuse me, but FUCK TEXAS.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. TexASS sucks.

[area51]

6. The Charlie Kirk statue claim sounds like something the nazis wanted,

but didn't get, according to snopes AI.

[JustKay]

7. I'm in Texas, trust me, it's bad! But there are pockets of sanity and kindness.

I'm in Fort Worth, TX (Tarrant County). I am a liberal, surrounded by Trumpers. Many of them are hard-core Trumpers. The 32% that still cling to their great orange god are mostly living here! Trump flags on trucks are a pretty common sight.

Although in 2020, Tarrant County voted for Joe Biden, Donald Trump won in 2024, which goes to show that misogyny is still alive and well in Texas.

And of course, the Republican-led state government includes some of the most controversial and repugnant figures in modern Texas politics. Think Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and Greg Abbott.

But in 2026, a Democrat (Taylor Rehmet) flipped a longtime Republican Senate seat in Tarrant County. He won about 57% to 43% in a district that had been Republican for decades.

And the church I attend (United Church of Christ) has a minister who's gay and black. We love everyone who walks in the door.

Even in the rain, more than a thousand people showed up in downtown Fort Worth for the latest ‘No Kings’ protest—that was encouraging to see. So it can get hostile and scary here sometimes, but Fort Worth is my home. I wasn't born here, but I've been here for 30+ years. And I'm not going to let the haters win.

[wcmagumba]

8. That's good, I lived in the heavily gay (at that time) Oaklawn area...though I am a cis guy I liked living there...

Worst part was I lived right under the Love Field landing approach so it could get kind of noisy...I go used to it...

[Scruffy1]

10. I live in El Paso.

I lived in Minnesota for many moons before I moved here. El Paso is the least racist place I've ever been in. Our last Mayor was a Jewish immigrant from Mexico and our current one is African American from El Paso. The way I look at it we are more a part of New Mexico. The whole problem isn't with Texans in general, but the "news" media. El Paso is the safest city I have ever lived in but the media has everyone convinced it's somehow dangerous on the border. I remember before the election the media was saying there was going to be a big rush at the border. I spent the 50 cents, walked across the bridge and found right away the homeless camps and the big tent city were empty in Juarez. Not one of the press bothered. Remember the Venezuelan gangs? Disappeared as soon as the election was over. Until we have a way to beat the TV set we will struggle. It's not just Fox, it's all of it including NPR.