this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2025
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Charlie Kirk Memorial
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Let's remember Charlie Kirk for who he was.
"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage." -Charlie Kirk
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You can disagree with Kirk on just about everything but he was a big supporter of debating ideas & free speech. The more you celebrate murdering people for their speech, the more damage I feel you're doing to hurt the causes you otherwise support.
So you're saying I should limit my speech whilst discussing the death of Kirk?
I never said that. I said I think people are doing damage by celebrating him getting murdered for speech you'd otherwise care about. Not that I think that is right, that you shouldn't have free speech, even ugly speech, but that I believe they'll use things like this to promote their fascism. I think it is dumb for that reason. I also think if you're celebrating people getting murdered for their ideas, especially those that actually did value free speech, that it appears you don't really care about free speech at all & that you support your own form of fascism.
He promoted hate to MAGA. MAGA shot him in the neck.
There is a sort of beauty in that.