@Motorod There’s also a conflation that’s happening, such that failing to condemn Kirk’s death AND to mourn him without referring to or quoting his actual words is equivalent to celebration and endorsement of murder, whereas calling for the officers who caused or failed to stop Floyd’s death to be tried for it means lionization of Floyd.

Using performative/real/socially coerced moral outrage to get opponents on the burdensome defensive is how these people’s views dominate.