Every once in a while, you will see somebody commit a “Kinsley gaffe.” This is Named after Michael Kinsley, who rose to fame as a writer for The New Republic and as a TV commentator.
A Kinsley gaffe is simple to understand: It’s when a person, usually a politician, accidentally tells you what they think when they didn’t intend to.
A great example of a Kinsley gaffe popped up that I thought I would share because it says the quiet part out loud: the climate change extremists want you dead. It is summed up in the meme:
It is not an exaggeration to say this. It simply is true. There is a Malthusian strain in the Left and has been for a very long time. And it’s not just the mistaken notion that human population will outstrip the ability of the Earth to sustain us, which is the minimal claim they make; there is a strain of this thought that outright argues that human beings are…
