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::: spoiler unsolicited sermon Coming from another Christian, you didn't really say anything wrong and his example isn't appropriate. It's one thing for someone to do something wrong to you and for you to forgive them (or decide to hold a grudge), it's a different thing entirely to identify the oppressive dynamic happening to other people and situate yourself accordingly. If you hold any marginalized identity yourself, then there is a sense in which Kirk's actions were harmful to you individually and, from your friend's perspective, you would have to let go of that grudge to forgive him. But only thinking that way is a very liberal (and therefore the default in our bourgeois society) way to think; clearly our feelings about what happens on the news are a lot more about the societal forces at play, the contradictions in which we may identify an oppressor and the oppressed, are much bigger than our personal grievances about instances of harm we've been dealt. There's a concept in Liberation Theology of collective sin, and it's inherently tied to that distinction between the harm that individuals are capable of, versus the harm that entire systems may inflict.
Anyway, if I was there, I would interject when your friend said you weren't very intelligent to say that the proposition that it's a Christian's task to forgive the collective sin committed by an entire society is misguided; at least, it's a very 21st century neoliberal version of Christianity to think that when the TV/internet man dies you have to say a prayer for him and never speak ill of him or even feel negatively. The kind of forgiveness he's talking about is fantastical and individualistic. It's the negative peace which is the absence of tension which MLK Jr. spoke about. Actual forgiveness comes as the result of a whole community working to heal the wounds that were inflicted, that's the mercy you're supposed to show each other.