hey ive seen your posts about trevor & charlie kirk and i just wanted to say that telling people to "re-learn empathy" right now is a statement that's probably going to rub folks the wrong way. so many people have been victimized by kirk's politics, especially his staunch defense of the second amendment which is what ultimately killed him. he had no empathy for the victims of gun violence. he said verbatim "I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage". he goes on to talk about sympathy, but he doesn't seem to have any sympathy for gun violence victims when he says "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights". these statements are why people are mad (among many other things!!!) and why people are disappointed in trevor for supporting the kind of man who can make these statements. i understand that it's tragic when families are broken apart in such a violent way, but kirk has encouraged and supported the breaking apart of so many families with his politics, both due to gun violence in the united states and his defense of israel's actions against palestine.
i think what's important to remember here is that you don't need to defend trevor zegras. he is allowed to do and say what he wants and other people are allowed to react to it how they will, and you're still allowed to like him (because he is a person, and people are flawed)!! i hope you don't read this in an accusatory or condescending tone because that's not how this was intended—just wanted to say that wasting your energy on this isn't worth it. there is valid grounds for people to be upset at him and if you disagree that's fine! but yeah. there is a wider picture here than the tragedy of one man's death, and there's so much endless nuance about it all
i appreciate you staying respectful and educated through your whole ask! i’m aware that the posts probably rubbed some people the wrong way, but at the end of the day, he wasn’t a killer, a child molester, etc. he wasn’t somebody that we as human beings would or should have trouble having empathy for. he was someone who spoke his opinion. he didn’t commit acts of violence (or even directly incite it) or anything like that. he said a lot of shit that people didn’t like, but those were words. and he’s now dead. words don’t really justify the killing of someone. people can be mad at charlie kirk all they want, but it becomes a different situation when innocent children lose their father, when a wife loses her husband, when parents lose their son, and when so many people are traumatized by having to see what they saw on that Utah campus. people joking about his death and acting like trevor is basically hitler himself for saying RIP are a true representation of how we’ve lost our humanity.
