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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
My 2 cents on this is that regardless of how awful of a person anyone may have considered him to be, him being murdered was not a good thing and shouldn’t be celebrated.
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I don't agree.
As long as Charlie Kirk had a platform, someone somewhere was going to die because of far-right violence. The only real question was "who?"
"Charlie Kirk himself" is by far the best answer that question.
There is no reality where someone like him has a platform and no one is attacked by the far-right lunatics inspired by him and people like him being allowed a platform, which is why free-speech absolutism is a fundamentally amoral position.
Sure, in a perfect world he would have been de-platformed and/or put in jail, but that's not the world we live in, and in this world him dying at the hands of another far-right wacko is a good thing.
(It also will likely spread fear and suspicion inside the far-right, which is good.)
(Edited for brevity and clarity.)