Hell yeah my last post was about this, and hell yeah I'm basically repeating myself days later.
Because "politics aside, he's a good person" is still a phrase that irritates me more than any of the other things people commonly say about this. If someone was ACTUALLY a good person you wouldn't have to start your sentence off with "____ ASIDE". That aside is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
Again, I know it's supposed to be asking the other political side to ignore politics for this, but to me, with the way it was worded it just felt like an omission of guilt. "Yeah, his political views were harmful and hateful, but hey... He loves his family. At least he was nice to me: the cishet, white person, that holds the same beliefs as him... OwO."
I'm glad you had a good relationship with him, and should Tyler Robinson be guilty then I'm glad his family at least gets some justice from this. That's amazing for you, but plenty of families do not get that, because their loved one wasn't influential enough for people to care like they do for Charlie Kirk.
Kirk's last words sentence will always be "Including or not including gang violence?"
Before that, his second to last sentence was "Too many." when asked about how many trans shooters there have been in the last decade.
But you want me to ignore his politics, why? If the victim was a minority Kirk would've found a way to make their death political. If the shooter was a minority Kirk would've found a way to make the murder political, even when it wasn't. Most of the people asking us to ignore his political beliefs share the same viewpoints he does. They like to spit on the names of black people who die to police brutality, they like to mock trans suicide rates, they scoff when you mention Palestinian citizens dying in a genocide at the hands of Israel. God forbid you do the same to them.














