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I've been following what's happening in the US with the murder of Charlie Kirk

🕑 Added 2025-09-15 17:50:51 +0000 UTC

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Jordan

I think it's because your country doesn't have a shared framework that keeps it together. It's an external perspective but it doesn't seem like the Human Rights framework is working very well at conciliating the differences among people. As soon as something happens, everyone turns on everyone and starts pointing the finger towards someone. If you compare this to Islamic countries, that you might not like from your binary moral perspective, Islam under the law is capable of closing the ranks without dissolving in internal fighting. The law is clear and binds the community. It also looks like you have a lot of unresolved grievances going on.

Dara Pressley

I believe the problem with your argument is that we don't live in tribes. We live in one very large country of many many mixed tribes. Where two tribes -- through the structure of the country -- suppress the rights of the others. By those two, I mean the oligarchs and the supremest that they get to do their bidding through much manipulations. I wish it was as simple as tribalism. But it's not about how one person feels or thinks, it is systematically embedded into the fabric of this country. Like, why, the moment after this happened... why were black people immediately threatened by Kirk's followers. When black people had absolutely nothing to do with what happened. They even went as far sending bomb threats to black colleges! This wasn't the first time. Every time people like Kirk have been hurt in the history of the US, black people are attacked. And every time the story comes to light -- black people had nothing to do with the initial incident. This just has to stop. Personally, I don't care about what happened to Kirk. I'm not celebrating his murder -- but I'm also not sorry. He did a lot of damage in his time. And his hate came back to him from a person who thought his hate wasn't strong enough. If those hateful people want to eat each other up -- fine by me. Leave me and my people out of it.

Jordan

I think I'll print your comment and hang it in my bedroom.

Terry Lasagna

I find Kirk’s ideas abhorrent and worthy of robust critique. That said: celebrating his murder is a moral failure. Condemning speech as harmful is one thing; converting that condemnation into jubilation at a life ended is another entirely. We don’t have to be friends with those we oppose, but if our rhetoric pretends a universal commitment to human worth.. or to free expression.. we must be honest when our actions contradict those claims. The easiest way to hand power to the most monstrous storytellers is to answer blood with applause. Violence begets a cycle of martyrdom, and martyr narratives are how wars are escalated. If we want political change, aim at argument, exposure, legal and social pressure, not rejoicing in death. That is both strategically stupid and morally bankrupt.


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