I wasn't trying to suggest you were defending him and I apologize if it came off that way. My point was mainly that, while celebrating violence isn't a good look in polite society, it isn't morally abjectionable in an objective way and I won't fault people for it. Just as I wouldn't criticize a rape victim for celebrating their abusors death. While not as direct or severe as rape (hopefully), many people on this site were victimized by his rhetoric. Even if they weren't directly, maybe someone they loved was.

To add to this, I also think that the reason so many of us in the west abhor this behavior is because we have state sanctioned and state monopolized violence. It is acceptable to celebrate this violence because it is done under the authority of the state, they are allowed to be violent to us and to foreign peoples and we are allowed to celebrate that. Many of us do because that violence is beneficial to them. People celebrate police and military violence all the time. What's horrifying, what we are taught to be horrified by, is violence done by us against the interest of the state. This cannot be acceptably celebrated. Maybe we shouldn't let it be so scary to us. Maybe that mentality is incredibly beneficial to the people who control our lives.

Violence is a tool, it isn't good or evil. Sometimes violence is deeply liberating and I think it's okay to celebrate that. Independance days are a very common holiday and many of them were won through violence.

As an aside though, I do condemn the murder of charlie kirk. Not because it was violent and murder but because it was adventurism and deeply irresponsible. Individual acts of violence like this, while gratifying, have proven to be detrimental to liberatory movments.

I hope this helps you understand my perspective

I'm not going to presume to know what a black man assassinated by white supremacists would think about his people still being murdered and treated as second class citizens for the color of their skin, and resurgence of racism in America just shy of 60 years after his tragic killing. Though I'd have to think he'd be appalled at how controversial it is to call for a swift end to those perpetrating it.

What I do know is Kirk is quoted saying that black people had unsufficent brain power to hold positions of leadership in society and that the civil rights movement was a mistake.

The fact that you think both of these people and their viewpoints deserve equal defense and respect says a lot more about you than it does me.

I don't feel joy or whatever, but I don't think it's a big deal if people do. Hell, I'd have celebrated Hitler dying, so to me it's a matter of where you draw the line. Drawing the line where a nazi deserves respect is silly imo.

All that said, again, the vast majority of people didn't celebrate, we just refused to say we feel sad, because we don't.