Charlie Kirk’s Death and the Cost of Political Hate Speech
I've personally been having a harder time with this than I thought I would and just need to take a break from the gaming stuff. Charlie Kirk is dead. Thirty-one years old. A husband. A father. Someone who believed in freedom of speech, freedom of life, and the idea that disagreement doesn’t have to mean destruction. And now he’s gone. Not because he was violent. Not because he called for violence. He never did. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y2Xq5mPLAcw Video: Charlie Kirk Remembered | #CharlieKirk | ReportAFK He’s gone because our culture has been drunk on venom for years, cheering as it calls conservatives, Republicans, and Trump supporters “Nazis,” “fascists,” “racists,” “transphobes,” and whatever other left-leaning buzzwords that strip people of their humanity. We act like words don’t matter, like “it’s just Twitter” or “they’re only memes.” But words lay the groundwork for action. […]
