Yes, One more Kirk thread, but from an angle most here and elsewhere seem to be ignoring. I've posted what is said about Kirk (but drowned out in the deification and more of CK):
"Trump has ordered flags across the country to be lowered to half-staff in Kirk’s honor, but he wasn’t a statesman like John F. Kennedy, or a moral leader like Martin Luther King Jr. (whom Kirk called “not a good person”). I won’t pretend that I believe America just lost a great man. In the long history of American political assassinations, Kirk belongs in the company of charismatic provocateurs such as Huey Long and Malcolm X."
Dante has almost always been able to keep most controversial things that take over the public's attention in perspective. Charlie Kirk has a history. It's out there. He was who he was regardless of what people are claiming he was about.
How are you processing Kirk’s sudden and violent death?
“I did get choked up when I got the notification of his death. I first thought — I got a report earlier about him being shot — ‘my God, this could be bad.’ So getting choked up was about his widow and his children. I have two young children around the same age.
It was also being deeply sad about our nation. Again, to have someone assassinated in this fashion on a college campus is just tragic, and because I was targeted by Turning Point for writing an op-ed about gun violence and not having guns on campus, and for Charlie to be assassinated by a gun on campus is beyond ironic.
“My tears were for him and for his wife, but I think his death is a national moment, a line we have crossed, that is deeply sad."
Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist” tracks professors that some students see as leftist. A man on that list has spent years researching the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk, and is now worried about what Kirk’s death may mean for debate in the United States.
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