The white Christian nationalist provocateur was not an promoter of civil discourse. He preached hatred, bigotry and division
Charlie Kirk appears in Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix in December 2024.
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Charles James Kirk, 31, died on Wednesday from a shot to his neck at the University University event, just as he tried to reject the issue of mass pictures, believing that they are largely functioning from violence in a gang. He died with a clean price 12 million dollarsWhich he did, supporting the horrific and fanatical views in the name of the promotion of Christian nationalism. The Foundation for its empire was the group he founded and led, Turning Point USA, which is the key level of refurbishing the youth movement. Kirk was able to launch a turning point at the age of 18, as he received money from Bill Montgomery Teaism Member, right donor Foster Faise and his own father, also a prolific right -wing donor. He was a non -reflective racist, a transfobus, a homophobes and a mysogin, who often embraced his fanaticism in biblical poems because there was no other way to pretend it is morally correct. He had children like many vile people.
I need to say all this because we live in a culture where manners are often more evaluated than the truth. That is why in a positive light, in a positive light, in a positive light, and he was doubted that he was not white, Christian, and man. California Governor Gavin New Yorkd has made a project Kirk as healthy democratic exercises: “The best way to honor Charlie-to tighten his work: to interact with each other, through ideology, through a lively discourse. This determines both “discourse” and “good blow”.
It is not necessary to participate in this whitewashed company, and the refusal of joining does not make anyone a bad person. This choice is written by a necrologist that begins “Joseph Gebbels was gifted with a marketer and a loving father for six children.”
Many of the notable defense of Kirk and his heritage rely on the idea that it is acceptable to distribute hated ideas that advocate the persecution of perceived enemies while you put them in a debate. It’s just a cool privilege. Man who said“Black women do not have the strength of brain processing, which should be taken seriously. You have to steal a white man slot,” said it, putting on a beautiful shirt and tie on a podcast rather than a rural Walmart. It doesn’t make it less racist.
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It is true that we Can’t Know what was in the heart of Charlie Kirk Because we are not telepathic. But we can make reasonable conclusions, relying on the things he said and did publicly because we are not stupid either. He built a great following and acquired true political power, saying these things young people, the president and his servants, to deep pocket donors, and there are too many people who were ready to assume that he was able to do so through a combination of natural charisma and good old work. Speaking of and referring to the late Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who is black, he said: “We are very obvious to us, you are not smart enough to be able to get it yourself. To match his own ideology.
This is what makes the climb especially to see him that he rejected as a warrior of the free speech. He created a list of professors who clearly developed to dismiss academicians who dared to talk about the usual range of literal themes – all to do, in particular with a race or gender. He also suggested a standard right -hand complaint about left -wing ideological processing at US universities, even when he went to university tours, trying to invest young people into his cruel rights Christian nationalist worldview.
If we refuse to talk about the dead, it is because we have sympathy for the living. In this regard, I regret the children of Kirk. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, it was little to soften the damage he caused to children of other people. I can only hope for their children that they have examples for imitation that will teach them, what incorrectly earn income from the degumanization of people from the one who they are.
When asked about the mass pictures, he replied: “I think it’s worth it. I think it is worth having costs, unfortunately, some weapons death every year so we can have a second amendment.” Kirk may not have believed that his own life would be interrupted by weapons, but, like the rest, he witnessed countless school shots. When he said that “some weapons’ deaths are acceptable, he certainly knew that he lived in a country where the death he considered acceptable to include children, some of whom were his own age. There is no virtue in the care of their own children; This is the minimum requirement for the effective upbringing of children. The virtue is to care for the safety and well -being of children you don’t know.
On this front, I am quite sure that Kirk did not care about my child. My baby lives in Brooklyn, in a progressive family. His mother works and has no marriage, where she is considered to be inferior to her husband or demanded to obey him, because Kirk brazenly told Taylor Swift what she should do by learning of her engagement. (“Disband feminism,” he said. “You’re not responsible. my neighbors eat pets. It is also recommended that you believe that, just because of the non-white immigrants, they “replaced” white people-as they are also black, they are dangerous. “It happens all the time in the Urban American,” he said, “the Negro walks go for pleasure to target white people, it’s a fact.”
I do not believe that anyone should kill from my views, but it is because I do not believe that people need to be killed as a whole, no matter who they are and what they did. I am against the death penalty, control over the pistol and believe that war is a failure of humanity, not a necessary by a by -product. Kirk was in order with the murder while the people needed died.
Some of the people who have a pickup insist that all its toxicity was acceptable because at least it was open for discussion – the bar is so low that you will have to delve into the Marianne trench to get to it. And he certainly paid him a lip service. “We record it all so that we put (this) on the Internet so that people can see these ideas,” he said about his own broadcast operation. “When people stop talking, this is when you get violence. It is then a civil war because you start thinking that the other side is so evil and they lose humanity.”
But Kirk’s actions undermine this concept every day. All his business said that the other side was evil and degumanized them. The debate was just performances, and he could not have an entertaining public struggle without the opposition. The turning point did not work to unite people; It worked to bring to a country where everyone who was not a white Christian nationalist was not welcomed. I will not celebrate his death, but I also do not have to celebrate his life.
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