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What is Charlie Kirk's legacy (lemmings.world)
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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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[+] -15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I feel like comparing a person who was just right wing to someone so disgusting and reprehensible is disingenuous and waters down have vile the Nazi regime was

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 1 year ago* (2 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.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Most Nazis were "regular people" until the opportunity came for them to commit atrocities.

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I did not say Charlie Kirk was just a 'regular person"

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know. You're excusing him but I'm telling you that even people you would consider to be better than Kirk ended up as Nazis when the opportunity arose.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 1 year ago

    Ok I appreciate the idea some political act alot more moderate then there actually beliefs like, that does happen alot when politicians stray the centrist line

    I just don't think its fair to compare charlie to Himmler over the idea that Charlie could of became extremely far right wing if he gained more power

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Most Nazis were "regular people" "just right wing" until the opportunity came for them to commit atrocities.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The nazi party was far right authortarians, not just simply right wing, to say they were just right wing is disingenuous

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