The whole white washing someone after they died is the most insane thing that society has decided upon. As soon as someone is dead, society says that all their sins are forgiven and we should not speak ill of them.
When someone dies, they don’t magically stop being racist, sexist, transphobic, Nazi shit bag. Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit in life and still a piece of shit in death.
The man actually dared anyone. He was proved wrong.
This is ridiculous, and another reason the Left lost the Presidential elections. Charlie was not a “racist” nor did he preach about hatred and division. He simply wanted to debate people on politics and beliefs.
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Yeah we literally just had the mobster in chief order a hit on 11 random civilians in a boat. If you believe in the sanctity of human life, isn’t that 11 times as bad? Yet the media hasn’t even bothered to report their names.
No war but a class war.
The Grim Reaper did some cleaning.
Nah, im not gonna condemn this. He fucked around and found out. We are at a point in the U.S. where polite discourse doesn’t get you anywhere anymore.
Once you start advocating for putting people in camps, and wanting to harm people for just existing, I stop caring about what happens to you as a person.
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I find it hard to condemn this act of physical violence when Charlie Kirk was so willing to engage in acts of emotional and violence.
Although, having watched some of the things Mr Kirk said, I think the man might have had some mental health issues (dude was convinced angels and demons were influencing polotics), and I do consider myself a advocate for the mentally ill. So, in that framework I have say “This was the tragic result of a mentally ill man being miss treated by a society that does not value mental health enough”.
Mental health issues isn’t an excuse for being a piece of shit though. You can have mental health issues and also be the nicest person in the world. This guy spewed hatred and violent rhetoric everywhere he went.
Being a nazi is not a mental health issue.
Violence, politically motivated or otherwise, in unacceptable and has no place in our society.
That said, if it had to happen to someone, which even he believed was worthwhile, then…
intolerance cannot be tolerated!
Those that promote violence and end up violated, deserve it.
We can condemn political violence and this hideous murder
Doesn’t matter. The Reichstag has burned. The Maine has sunk. Things are well and truly fucked, and most of the people around here are celebrating.
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If he were here I’m sure he would encourage us to not let politics hijack the narrative and remind us that some gun deaths are a small price to pay for 2nd amendment rights
It’s what he would have wanted.
Its pretty funny that the do-nothing democrat clickbait websites like Common Dreams and Jacobin and Mother Jones are running this “we all have to cry for the nazi boy” rhetoric just because they know its good rage-click slop.
Just fuck off with this shit, idk why the kayfabe marks find this entertaining
THANKYOU. His views were vile, his behaviour was repugnant, and no doubt the world is better without him. That doesn’t mean it’s ok to kill someone because their views are awful!! I’m horrified seeing how many people think it’s ok to do this
He would have been happy to kill trans people.
Yeah extrajudicial execution has no place in this world! (except for when, for example, trump wants to do it to venezuelans, or something like that. then its a good thing instead of a bad thing)
Soo… who is disenfranchising these Nazis? Who is systematically taking away their resources? Because it looks to me like they keep getting stronger, and I don’t know what else will stop them other than fear of death.
Don’t forget, fascists ultimately want to horrifically murder anyone who doesn’t blindly obey them. So if it must be either civilized people or them… sorry Charlie, you gotta go.
Or did you want to wait and sacrifice a few dozen more innocent people so we could have yet more incontrovertible truth that fascist ideologies always lead to fascist outcomes?
Would I overwhelmingly prefer he was deplatformed for his hate, ridiculed out of every spotlight, or censured through judicial means? Absolutely. ‘Vigilante justice’ on its own is no justice at all. But if this is a trolley problem, I know for a fact where I’m putting the switch. Do you?
In case you’re not familiar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It’s okay to kill Nazis. Because it’s not just views. They are spreading violent rhetoric. He spread the white replacement and white genocide bullshit. He spread COVID misinformation. He said blacks were better off before the signing of the Civil Rights act.
He was a dangerous fascist mouthpiece. And now he’s not.
Nazi lives don’t matter.
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He literally thought empathy was a new and made up concept.
It’s worse, he didn’t think it was new. He knew it was a thing, and he was spreading the Evangelical (Christofascist) “The Sin of Empathy” rhetoric.
One example: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-enticing-sin-of-empathy
I hadn’t heard of that, thanks.
Regardless of what he may have actually thought this is what he publicly stated:
“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.”
