We're not going to get to 'unity' by pretending the murdered racist bigoted demagogue was merely making political points

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1. You're dead on...

...and making a martyr out of this type of person is how this kind of abhorrence gets further normalized and given legitimacy.

We can all agree political violence has no place in the U.S., but the way the media has swarmed in to become the clean-up crew for Kirk is nearly mind blowing. Our country today is being led by a cabal of people who believe in white primacy, who've made no secret about it, and who know they can count on the media to throw doubt on that in favor of calling it some brand of "conservativism".

It's not.

There's no blood on anyone's hands for calling fascist "Fascists", Nazi's "Nazis", racists "racist", and so on. If the media is waiting for all racists in this country to self-identify, and make life easier on their lazy asses, they're in for a long wait. Charlie Kirk, like Steven Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump, was an unrepentant bigot. Regardless of how that makes you feel, because his weapons were simply words, he didn't merit the death penalty from some freak who wanted to be judge and jury, but the circumstances of his death also don't transform him into a reasonable person. He was selling racism and lies to a target audience who's youth and lack of worldliness make them particularly susceptible to easy answers for complex issues. Bringing hate to college campuses and cloaking it in a patina of "the exchange of ideas" isn't brave, it's insidious. In the same way we can't condone political violence, we shouldn't condone bigotry, but we do these days when it has a pleasant enough face, or a loud enough yelp.