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Here's a thread of commentators noting and pushing back against the attempt of journalists and others to whitewash Charlie Kirk's legacy:
"I also find it bizarre and frankly insulting that much of the coverage of this—again, bad—event is asking us to pretend that Kirk stood for civil disagreement and engagement and that we as a nation must come together to mourn him."
~ Emily Tamkin
"To pretend that Kirk was this other, more civil person is to do two things. First, it is to lie, and to pretend that homophobia and racism and antisemitism and sexism are tolerance. They are not. But second, it is to put conditions on our denouncements of violence. I don’t need Kirk to have been good to think that it was bad he was shot."
#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #homophobia #racism #sexism #fascism
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"Voltaire once said, 'To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe only the truth.' That’s what Voltaire said. So to honor Voltaire, we’re going to tell the truth about this person who is no longer with us. ...
His life’s work was to put other people in harm’s way and to make life more miserable for other people who were not like him."
~ Greg Olear
#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-damnatio-memoriae-video
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