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What is Charlie Kirk's legacy (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 day ago by PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Charlie Kirk's murder is a shock to me and prior to that I really have not thought about him for months (he apparently shared a stage with Hassan piker), of course the south Park parody.

I have ran into a few of Kirk's supporters and apparently his legacy is his family and his apparently endless college debates that get rephrased as "debated an entire generation" and governors.

To me, it seems like Kirk was just a content creator.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm comfortable with the comparison. If you insist on mythologizing the Nazis as a singular historical phenomenon, you will never recognize them anywhere else. Kirk professed Christianity, while mocking and condemning empathy as "new-age" and damaging. He called for the marginalization, incarceration and even murder of trans people. He was a cheerleader for the large scale paramilitary occupations of major cities. There are many examples of Kirk not simply "having conservative opinions", but being paid handsomely by billionaires to amplify and normalize these messages of hate. That you think of him as someone "who was just right wing" illustrates the success he had in bringing his evil views into mainstream discourse.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. I have no idea how awful he is and I have no intention search myself. They should cheer for the 22 yr old like Luigi M.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

Looks like the shooter was also a fascist (groyper Nazi), so I'm not really cheering for him, but I am glad Charlie's dead.