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Chris Kyle Fans Express American Exceptionalism Through Sexual Violence

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie Martin are joined by journalist Rania Khalek about how Abby got doxxed and bombarded with rape and death threats for wearing a "F*ck Chris Kyle" shirt, and why so called "freedom" lovers express American Exceptionalism through sexual violence. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/abbymartin twitter.com/raniakhalek twitter.com/fluorescentgrey

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0:00.0

The The

0:23.6

The Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

0:46.5

This is Robbie Martin.

0:47.8

And this is Abby Martin.

0:50.3

So it's been a really insane couple of days, Robbie.

0:55.7

You don't say.

0:56.9

You don't say.

0:58.9

So really quick backstory to anyone who hasn't been paying attention to what's been going on.

1:07.0

About two or three weeks ago, I went on the Joe Rogan podcast.

1:11.9

I've called out American sniper multiple times.

1:14.5

I've called Patriot porn, a celebration of psychopathy, called Chris Kyle a coward.

1:20.8

Because when you're just sniping a bunch of people from, you know, rooftops in Iraq, I just don't see that as really brave.

1:28.8

So I called out a bunch of shit on Joe Rogan's podcast.

1:30.9

And then my friend Leo, who hosts a really cool shop in Santa Barbara, made a fuck Chris Kyle

1:39.9

shirt, a little one-off.

1:41.4

And I wore it and took a little photo of it and posted on my private

1:44.5

Instagram account and my personal Facebook page. It was like an airbrush shirt. Yeah, it was like an

1:49.2

airbrush like like magic mountain fairground. Yeah. Yeah. And and that was the end of it. And

1:55.4

and then all of the sudden about a week went by and basically a hate campaign started where all these like Chris Kyle fans found the shirt and just made it viral.

2:10.7

I will give a little bit of a pretense of this conversation to say that my boyfriend is a veteran.

2:16.3

He was in the first battalion that

2:19.0

went into Iraq to invade. I have many friends that are veterans. I really care about veterans

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