He preached hatred and division on social medias, he regretted the civil rights granted to Black people in 1960, he opposed abortion even for raped women and defended the carrying of weapons, not giving a damn about mass killings. How could I cry ? Charlie Kirk took seven grams of lead to his neck, for no other reason than Donald Trump has a much better security service. Angel-Face is the first casualty – not a victim, even less « a martyr for truth and freedom » as Trump said – of the coming slowly civil war. And it’s not the « radical left rhetoric », which is inaudible (leftists bought a social network and no one noticed ?) which is to blame.
With his nice looking face he was the greatest contributor to desensitised all the naive youth of this country, and to deflowered her ideologically at the same time. That’s why it becomes so natural for his public to make an homophobic or a racist comment without bad conscience. History before 9/11 is Antiquity and can’t be attractive when it’s teached by crumbling professors : « With Charlie, it’s was so… so.. It was Charlie ! »
My moto is usually : an attack on elected officials is an attack on American democracy itself. But Kirk was not elected. He was a (very bad) influencer on social media, selling caps and making right-wing doctrinal conventions. Propaganda without brain. Unlike for the assassination of Melissa Hortman (in june), the reaction of Donald Trump was huge for Charlie Kirk. It’s very shoking, but it can be explained by the lost of his greatest support among the country’s naive youth.
Ironically, just before he died, Kirk was speaking at a Turning Point USA panel discussion on mass shootings and gun violence. Not to call for a gun ban, but for more repression. « Do you know how many transgender Americans have been involved in mass shootings in the last 10 years? » ask someone in the public. Kirk replied, « Too many. »
Actually : only one, a few days before in Minneapolis (two sorrowful children killed). But the trumpetists want to use this crime to desarm all transgenders, by excluding them as mentally ill from their constitutional right of caring a weapon. One can also draw a target on their backs. What to do with such stupidity ?
Note : the shooter could not be located and reached by the editorial team for comment on his action.
Wenesday 12/09 : A friend of family’s shooter (what kind of friend is this ?) has denounced a suspect named Tyler Robinson, 22, who now encountered death penalty. Tyler Robinson was leaving as a couple with someone who was in gender transition. He got fed up with Kirk’s homophobic attacks on his friend. He killed Kirk for it. United States is a wonderful country : when you disagree with someone, you take your gun.
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* « Put your sword back in its place » Jesus said to [Peter] « for all who draw the sword will die by the sword » (Matthew 26, 52).
Or also Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil (1886). “When your gaze penetrates for a long time into the depths of an abyss, the abyss also penetrates into you.”