Roxane Gay

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Pod Save America · Roxane Gay on the Myth of Civility · 5 Oct 2025 podcast

The punishment for having odious beliefs is not death.

And so what happened there was a travesty.

But it would be a travesty for anyone to be killed.

Anytime someone loses their life, especially in some misguided attempt to do whatever that killer was trying to do, we have to resist it.

I just don't believe politicians when they're offering that resistance, because it seems so disingenuous.

And the speed with which they came out with those statements, my God.

But it is what it is.

I accept it for what it is.

But I...

I'm not going to mourn someone who wouldn't spit to put me out if I was on fire.

But I think it's criminal what happened to him.

And I also feel like the discourse has gotten so far afield from sanity

Murder is bad.

And just... Full stop.

It's just murder is bad.

And the fact that we don't even have that common ground as just a people anymore breaks my heart.

But murder is not only bad when someone is on stage and is killed by an assassin.

Murder is bad when police...

you know, kill an unarmed Black person or an unarmed person of any race.

It's bad when a husband murders his wife because divorce is just too much effort or because he believes he has a right to do so.

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