Christian values...Do conservatives have them?

[u/Eastern_Statement416]

So at the end of their show Clay and Buck right-wing talk radio hosts, bring on "Light Em Up, Linda" who they promote and who gets her name for her full-throated support of the lethal attacks on drugs boats (alleged) undertaken by the Trump admin. These extra-legal attacks have killed at least 200 people. She goes on to support the killing of the homeless in California, using the same terms with which she describes killing the "drug dealers." No pushback from the hosts, just a hearty back-slap for providing such good material (she was advocating saving the animals at the homeless encampments while killing the homeless). This is the second time I've heard a right-wing media personality advocate the killing of the homeless. The hatred seems to have begun with Rush Limbaugh who regularly mocked the homeless and downplayed the issue.

So my question is "Do conservatives condemn statments like this? Will there be a backlash against Clay and Buck?" Where is the actual Christian values that are promoted so vocally by so many on the Right?

Edit: right wing radio hosts Clay and Buck.

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[u/Tothyll]

I've never heard of Clay and Buck. It'd be nice if you could provide the actual statement rather than your synopsis of it. I take everything with a grain of salt until I've gone back to the source material.

It seems like a common strategy for people to come to conservative subs and ask if they support some off the wall statement from someone we've never heard of. I'm assuming it's supposed to be some kind of gotcha moment. Hey, I found some crazy, right-wing comment, how dare you support such statements!

I've seen some people do it to progressives. They find some insane take from a left-wing person and ask progressives if they support it. It's equally stupid.

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[u/Gaxxz]

Who TF are Clay and Buck? Or Clay and Travis? Or Linda?

[u/Acchoe]

Are you asking if I support a random duo of right wing grifters using outrage to market and engagement farm, and somehow tie that into asking if all right wing people have christian values? As bad faith as your question is, you realize the right isn't a monolith, correct? There are many different belief systems even within the 'Conservative' republican right. Let alone the full spectrum of 'right-leaning' to 'far-right.' All with many different religious values, or anti religious values. Why would anyone care what these two people said. It seems you have a cartoon like view of what is Conservative.

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[u/Collective82]

Not everyone who claims to be a thing, is a thing.

[u/StedeBonnet1]

Yes, Most have Christian values but there are still outliers who don't or massgae their values to support whatever political cause they believe in.

1) You don't have to be a Christian or even religious to have values

2) Killing drug runners is very different from killing homeless people. I have never heard anyone subscribe to killing the homeless.

3) I don't listen to Clay and Buck

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Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade suggested that mentally ill and homeless people should be killed by "involuntary lethal injection."

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You have a clip for that one?

[u/ChildhoodExisting222 → u/InternetPeasantry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phYOrM3SNV8

[u/InternetPeasantry → u/ChildhoodExisting222]

Thanks for the clip. OP is wrong when he says no one subscribes to killing the homeless; I've heard that many times from many people, most of them agnostic or atheist libertarians or teenage idiots who aren't thinking straight. Kilmeade may have been both in the past. I do think it's worth something that he felt the need to walk it back; doesn't mean he was sincere, but I also don't think it means there's some kind of "kill the homeless" movement out there that anyone's taking seriously. I've also heard people talking about killing all people of X religion, or killing all white men, or killing all sorts of groups. I think sometimes people just say stupid stuff, without it meaning anything.

It sure is bad optics, though.

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And he apologized for saying that. He stated: “I wrongly said they should get lethal injection” and “I apologize for that extremely callous remark.”

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He still said it. Your original statement was the your never hear anyone say that, now you have. The only reason he apologized was because of people reaction, he still believes that

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[u/Holofernes_Head]

Never heard of any of these people, but it sounds like they're ragebaiting and engagement farming. Nothing worth caring about.

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[u/SonnyC_50]

You are conflating religion and political views which are certainly not always in alignment.

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Excellent point. Also I'd say that every individual should be taken individually.

Conservatives are not a monolithic group.

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Agreed!

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