Tornado Alley (PROG)

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"Unlike some here I am playing catch up on this person’s life. I understand now he had said some very controversial to some things that are upsetting. I understand that now."

I see. So... you're just talking out of your ass?
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Charlie Kirk traumatized and terrorized dozens of educators, politicians and journalists, if not more. He whipped up mobs to fill their inboxes with racist invective, and the most vile threats of violence.

Here's a quote that I saved... I can't remember who it was that wrote it though.

It is always sad when people are this young and die the way he did, so publicly, in front of his loved ones, and as vulnerable as he seemed as he died. In this case, he made his own bed of thorns and hate and he is going to have to lay on it forever.

Yes, Charlie Kirk falling over backwards with blood spurting out of his throat, looked like a vulnerable human being. I have to caution myself and steel my nerves not to think of that in that way. Hitler himself, who was said to be quite charming in person, would have looked that vulnerable and that human in that moment. Adolf Eichmann, who never killed anyone, would have looked like that. So would the Klansman who haul hung black men and women from trees in their front yards, or the young man who massacred Mexican shoppers at the Cielo Vista Mall. The man who slaughtered black people in Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York. Derek Chauvin would have looked vulnerable and human in that moment.

The man who told millions of his followers that Jews were importing foreigners to replace white "real" Americans, that he "hoped" a black airline pilot was qualified, that any black men or women in positions of authority had "stolen" white men's jobs, that his god demanded that gay people be murdered, the man that thought mass incarceration was a solution to homelessness... is not worthy of my consideration, or any feelings I may have had for his humanity. The man who stated that school children being murdered was an acceptable price to pay so that we could all carry guns, the man who stated that "empathy" was a damaging made up notion is not worthy of empathy himself.

Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, "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."
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-charlie-kirk-once-001900786.html

Charlie Kirk is an object lesson in what happens when other people think the same way as Charlie Kirk.

Fuck Charlie Kirk.