I’ve largely refrained from commenting on The Assassination of Charlie Kirk By The Coward Robert Ford (wait, this should be Tyler Robinson). I oppose murder, and the killer was apprehended, and will be punished. It should be simple, but I know it’s not.
It will surprise no one that I disagree strongly with the agenda Kirk advanced during his career as a soapbox orator funded by oligarchs, which to my mind is Christian-nationalistic and fundamentally bigoted. The manner by which Kirk advanced this agenda was sloppily idealized before he was murdered, and his death only stands to romanticize it even further.
To me, Kirk was a proto-vaudevillian in the service of authoritarianism, and those praising the late rabblerouser for the purported excellence of his debating techniques have done so because to them, in the absence of greater depth, it’s about whatever they perceive at the moment to be “winning” against the libtards.
As we’re now compelled to state the obvio ......
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