NonilexSep 28, 2025

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What the Public Memory of #CharlieKirk Revealed

For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the #mainstreaming of formerly #extremist views.

By Nikole Hannah-Jones

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU8.xYGk.f_VTKCpgv7OH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexSep 28, 2025
The day #CharlieKirk was killed, Dominic Durant’s 11yo daughter came home from her middle school in Tulsa, OK, & told her father that her friends had been very upset about his death, & that they felt she should be upset, too. “I’m sad,” she said, tears in her eyes.
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Durant struggled with how to respond. He, too, had been appalled by the act of violence. But his young daughter did not know much about #Kirk, & he worried she would look him up on YouTube & come across the many ugly assertions the right-wing activist had made about #Black Americans like them.
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@Nonilex
Tough situation as a parent because social groups police displays of emotion.

As a psychopath, I really don't care that Kirk got murdered, and it's annoying that people expect one to feel upset. From what I know of him, he was a jerk, incited violence, and made money from incitement.

The fact that he espoused the very thing that killed him amuses me.

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