Excellent. Excerpt to end -- "[...] Kirk sold the idea that good guys with guns deter the bad. At Utah Valley, guards and police were present, but a single distant shooter still felled him. No slogan, no escort, no microphone could shield him from the violence he insisted society should accept as normal.
His admirers may attempt to cast him as a martyr.
But martyrdom requires a cause greater than the self.
One of Kirk’s main causes was the very gun culture that killed him.
There is no redemption here, only circularity, a man consumed by the same absolutism he preached. It is the kind of circularity Karl Popper warned about.
Karl Popper cautioned that tolerating intolerance corrodes the open society. Kirk is now a case study. He exploited freedoms of speech and assembly to spread a politics hostile to tolerance itself. He trivialized the dead, inflamed division, normalized contempt. His violent end is not anomaly but outcome.
Charlie Kirk lived by intolerance and died by violence bred by the very intolerance he preached.
To mourn him honestly is not to romanticize him, or to soften what he stood for, but to say clearly: his death was the wages of his own ideology. Anything less would be dishonesty.
I write bluntly because euphemism is its own form of contempt.
Where Kirk’s intolerance mocked the suffering of others, my refusal to soften language is born of a different tradition, the Scandinavian insistence that truth, however cold, is owed to the living.
In societies that value honesty over flattery, empathy is not expressed through sentimentality but through clarity: by naming cruelty as cruelty, violence as violence, lies as lies. Kirk wielded rhetoric to excuse death. I wield bluntness to refuse that excuse. That difference is not cosmetic. It is the line between cynicism and humanism."
mtvashleybrooke Edited•2h - Charlie Kirk’s Top 11 Most Heinous Statements & Remarks (documented & reported):
1. Said gun deaths are “unfortunately worth it” to preserve the Second Amendment. 2. Called transgender identity a mental disease, needing “brain treatment.” 3. Refused to use people’s correct pronouns: “I will not call a man a woman.” 4. Demanded a nationwide ban on gender-affirming care. 5. Quoted scripture about homosexuality as an “abomination” deserving death. 6. Called Martin Luther King Jr. a “myth” and said the Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake.” 7. Promoted the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory. 8. Spread COVID-19 misinformation likening masks and vaccine mandates to “medical apartheid.” 9. Suggested mass incarceration as a fix for the housing crisis. 10. Advocated for public, televised executions even for children to watch. 11. Dismissed Black competence and made demeaning statements about Black women: He claimed that Michelle Obama and other supporters of affirmative action “lacked the brain processing power” to understand arguments on those policies ?. He also made undermining comments toward Black pilots, saying, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ’Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” ?.
Kirk had his own security on top of other security arranged because of his divisive and abrasively intolerant nature.
Have heard the shot came from the top of a building some distance away. Guessing it would be a good shooter, even possibly an expert who took the shot.
And understand Kirk had far-right enemies, as well as people on the left.
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