All those lauding Kirk for exercising his 1st Amendment right to free speech better be equally laudatory of those of us exercising ours to say he was a fascist who nobody should be honoring in any way at all.
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@heidilifeldman The best orbituary I read: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
This is the way we should talk about him.
This is the way we should talk about him.
@heidilifeldman I was hoping for an analogy with the 2nd Amendment, but you're right.
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Who are you talking about?
@heidilifeldman He was an influencer, not a politician, and that is what seems to have touched a nerve with the press. It feels different, an ‘inflection point’ to commentators because he was like them. One of their own rather than a classroom full of little children. Still as those on the right are so fond of saying now is not the time.
@heidilifeldman The 1A doesn’t protect him from getting shot, unless the government did it. The criminal law covers murder, not the 1A. Despite how twisted an interpretation it has become.
@heidilifeldman From a university ranked by FIRE to be among the top 15 (https://rankings.thefire.org/state/tennessee?demo=all&year=2025 ) campuses in the #UnitedStates that support #FreeSpeech. 👉 https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-death-mtsu-assistant-dean-fired-comments/86090129007/
@heidilifeldman Well said but these are crazy times.
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This might be a fun project: Take everything that Kirk said about trans and gay people, and repeat it with "Charlie Kirk" substituted for "gay" or "trans people".
@heidilifeldman You already knew that's not how it would go.
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