I appreciate this articulation of a distinction I felt but I was having trouble formalising. I thought the comments about Thatcher were in poor taste but not fundamentally harmful.
With Kirk, I am even sympathetic to those the "reaped what he sowed" variety of comments, because they are at least not unambiguously in favour of political violence (and from the non-US, non-pro-gun point of view there is a sad but also delicious irony in a gun rights advocate who argued that occasional deaths were a price worth paying himself paying that very same awful price himself)—but I am appalled by those who openly celebrate the murder of another human in any circumstances (save perhaps a very narrow exception for those who present a clear and immediate danger of doing the same or worse to others).
Charlie Kirk might have been a reprehensible shill for a harmful and destructive political movement, but no sane person should be pleased to see people being gunned down for their beliefs.
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I appreciate this articulation of a distinction I felt but I was having trouble formalising. I thought the comments about Thatcher were in poor taste but not fundamentally harmful.
With Kirk, I am even sympathetic to those the "reaped what he sowed" variety of comments, because they are at least not unambiguously in favour of political violence (and from the non-US, non-pro-gun point of view there is a sad but also delicious irony in a gun rights advocate who argued that occasional deaths were a price worth paying himself paying that very same awful price himself)—but I am appalled by those who openly celebrate the murder of another human in any circumstances (save perhaps a very narrow exception for those who present a clear and immediate danger of doing the same or worse to others).
Charlie Kirk might have been a reprehensible shill for a harmful and destructive political movement, but no sane person should be pleased to see people being gunned down for their beliefs.
As they say: send not for whom the bell tolls.
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