Charlie Kirk was a bad person. That's all. He was a selfish, apathetic person who's core beliefs were rooted in his own superiority to others. He was not some apolitical guy who just loved a good, open, good-faith debate on equal ground with a similarly skilled debate opponent. He liked to try to humiliate 18 year olds at college campuses and talk down to people he deemed less worthy of respect or dignity than himself.
He called the idea of empathy a "new age term that does more harm than good" and regularly spread rhetoric related to Great Replacement Theory, the idea that women are biologically not fit to operate in society at the same caliber as men, and that all Muslims are a threat to "western civilization."
He invoked the events of 9/11 to make a case for why he believed Zohran Mamdani should be barred from or otherwise prevented from becoming mayor of New York, drawing a connecting line between all Muslims, such as men like Zohran Mamdani, and Al Qaeda.
He frequently and repeatedly stated that Israel was taking no disproportionate action and was fully within its rights to do what it is doing. He said often, with his full chest, that Israel was not starving or killing civilians. Bibi has been among first to make a statement about Kirk's death.
I don't pretend to be happy, relieved, or amused by his killing, but I also cannot pretend to be extremely sorry about it. How could I bring myself to feel sorrow for someone who never once expressed sorrow for anyone unlike himself? How can I feel empathy for someone who never expressed empathy for people he couldn't relate to? How can I mourn someone who never mourned for those he felt superior to? Why do I have to shed tears for a man who would have never done the same for someone he opposed?
