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Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

I feel bad for his kids, actually.

They’ll likely be raised to think their father was a martyr, so the poor things (like 1 and 3 years) will probably grow up in the alt-right-o-sphere where their dad was a martyr to the cause.

That’s very sad. They’ll likely won’t have had a chance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I do too... But I wouldn't say they don't stand a chance

    Their dad got shot while encouraging gun violence. That might instill some strong opinions in them

    The kind of strong opinions that will likely be buried and come out later in therapy

    But it could go either way

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Depends. I expect his wife is just as alt-right-addled as he was, which might mean she’ll raise them to be little Nazis. I guess they might break out of that, and I hope so, but being raised alt-right with a prominent martyr to the cause as your father could seriously fuck you up. Don’t forget they’re very rich, so they’re insulated from the real world.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean you might be right, but I imagine the martyr thing could go either way

    Just putting myself in their shoes, it probably won't feel nice having their dad constantly praised for doing what they saw him die doing

    Plus, Charlie Kirk was more hated than loved. There's no putting them so deep in a bubble that they aren't confronted with that fact

    Kids tend to either follow or reject their parents beliefs... I'm not sure what this kind of trauma does to that, but I'll bet it'll make it more extreme

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    For their sake, I hope you’re right.

    e: and, putting myself in their shoes as a child whose father was both prominent and absent (though not dead), I idolised him well into my 30s. Raising a teen boy finally disabused me of his sainthood. He’s still the most remarkable man I’ve ever met, but he’s also fallible.
    If he’d been dead, I may never have been forced to accept he’s human.

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