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I’ll be honest with you. Until Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I had never heard of him. Didn’t know he existed. Since then I’ve discovered he was American conservative. I’ve also learnt that he was a Christian who believed strongly in his faith. I’ve listened to a few things he’s said and found myself mostly in agreement. In fact there’s been at least one thing that I’ve even said myself.
But the part that really stood out to me was his willingness to go into the lion’s den: universities, colleges – campuses filled with young people taught to see conservatives as the enemy. He didn’t just go quietly, either. He went there, face to face, with audiences who mocked, jeered and wrote him off before he even spoke. And yet, more often than you’d expect, he walked away with their respect. He didn’t shy away from the battlefield: he walked right in to it and people listened. Some of them even changed their minds. No wonder the left hated him. To them, someone like Charlie was more dangerous than a politician – because he was persuasive.
No wonder the left hated him.
Reaction from the left
Disgusting. Grossly insensitive. Appalling. I don’t have the words…If you had told me that the left would react like this to someone being murdered in front of his family I wouldn’t have believed you.
Actually, I would have said maybe, possibly, had it been Trump: TDS and all that. But to see it applied to a man like Charlie Kirk, someone who posed questions on campuses and built his arguments in debate? That’s left me stunned.
Put up or shut up
Of course, the left wasted no time in dragging out its greatest hits: the endless accusations, the labels and the attempts to frame Charlie as a ‘bad’ person who somehow deserved it. Have they been able to back up any of their accusations? Of course not. Every time they’ve been challenged they’ve come up with nothing. Ask them to put a particular quote in context? Good luck with that.
Free speech
I’m finding it quite amusing how the left has suddenly discovered free speech. And as usual they have no idea what it means. Free speech is to do with the individual and the state, not the individual and private businesses.
The other thing that needs to be remembered is that the US has every right to not let in someone. If I said something like “If you talk shit, you get banged,” referring to Charlie Kirk, I would expect to have my visa revoked. I mean, how stupid can you get?
Cancel culture
Now, the left want to call what’s happening in the aftermath ‘cancel culture’, but I think the comparison only goes so far. With the left, you could be cancelled because you told a risqué joke ten years ago. But people on the left are finding themselves being fired because they are proving themselves to be horrible people. Would you employ someone who danced and celebrated the assassination of someone, even if you didn’t like the person who was assassinated?
These people have caused actual harm – to their employers, to public trust and to basic decency. The consequences are on them.
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel didn’t get fired because he told a joke: he got fired because he lied. He spread disinformation and he used his platform to spread disinformation, deliberately or recklessly and in doing so he harmed his employer and the people who trusted him.
Sam Stubbs
What can I say? Would you trust someone with such poor judgement with your money? Any person with an ounce of wisdom would have kept their mouth shut by now. But not Stubbs. Still posting. Still reckless. Still blind to the damage he’s causing to his own reputation and the very business he co-founded. There’s no doubt that he should resign. His credibility is gone.
Here’s a question I would like to ask him: ‘If it had been a junior employee, say someone fresh out of university, who made the post, would you keep him? Would you give him support? Would you tell him that he made a mistake, a big mistake, but still just a mistake?’ Of course not.
Right now the left is showing everyone exactly who they are. And for that we can thank Charlie.
