Meme - The ArchCast: ""But what about free speech!" Mewls the communist as the boot they have been begging for finally arrives."
Rolling Stone: "People Are Losing Their Jobs for Criticizing Slain ‘Free Speech’ Advocate Charlie Kirk"
Rolling Stone: "Why Cancel Culture Is Good for Democracy"
Weird. Left wingers used to tell us that free speech just meant the government couldn't jail you for what you said, and that private parties exercising their freedom of association to not employ people was good
Meme - Pericles @PerryALPHA: "Leftists aren't getting fired for celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder, they're just "opting to get fired""
"Thousands of workers are opting to get fired, rather than take the vaccine"
Meme - Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "His cult of a party wanted to cancel Disney because they didn't agree with banning the word gay."
Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "Boycott everything affiliated with ABC and Disney. Pass it on."
Meme - *Mental Gymnastics*
"He killed a right-wing activist. He left antifascist slogans as a calling card. The shooter is an antifascist"
"He made a gamer reference! All gamers are right-wing! His parents said he was "political," that could mean groyper! This is a right-wing false flag! "If you're reading this you're gay?" Sounds christofascist to me.... "Bella Ciao" could mean anything. His parents are MAGA! I bet it's O9A"
Meme - Paul Barfoot: *fake photo of Tyler Robinson wearing MAGA shirt*
Reising J Jake: "real photo *original photo*
Liberate-America: "Paul Barfoot wow, you look so stupid now. Do you apologize for being a fool? Come on... show you're a man and Say it"
Adam Lowe: "fake photo"
Even in the second half of October I saw left wingers still spouting the fake news about Tyler Robinson being MAGA, but the narrative is more important than facts anyway
Meme - *Say the line Bart!*
"SAY THE FULL QUOTE"
"BUT IT IS VERY EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS. SYMPATHY. PREFER MORE THAN EMPATHY. THAT'S A SEPARATE TOPIC FOR A DIFFERENT TIME"
*Cheering classroom*
Meme - Leftists: "Charlie Kirk said he can't stand the word empathy, therefore he was a terrible person"
"why don't you read the entire quote where he goes on to say he prefers the word sympathy?"
Leftists: "I don't want the entire quote. I just want to hate Charlie Kirk"
The reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder reveals a terrifying truth about the Left - "The truth is that political murder is not a problem only of the last few years. It’s forgotten now, but in the late 19th century Europe suffered a wave of anarchist and nihilist terrorism, now largely expunged from popular memory. Anarchists killed a president of France (Carnot, 1894), a king of Italy (Umberto I, 1900), and an empress of Austria-Hungary (Elisabeth, 1898). Random bombings in public places in Europe and the US killed many entirely innocent people. These events even inspired a great novel, Conrad’s The Secret Agent, based on the failed attempt by the French anarchist Martial Bourdin to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. But you don’t have to go back that far. We all remember the Kennedy assassinations, but we have largely forgotten the wave of political murder in the late 1960s and 70s. The Weather Underground in the US, that targeted the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the American judiciary. The far-Left Red Brigades in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered Aldo Moro, a former prime minister. The Red Army Faction, the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany, who killed US servicemen, lawyers, policemen, and prominent business people. And of course here at home we had the gangster IRA, which murdered four MPs and came close to killing the PM herself... It is that it’s on the Left that it seems you find most of those ready to equivocate about Charlie Kirk’s murder, to say that somehow “he had it coming”, or even “I didn’t agree with him but he didn’t deserve to be killed” (as if some lower-level sanction, perhaps a beating or gagging on social media, might have been justified). I’m not saying it never happens, but in general people on the right don’t celebrate the murder of their political opponents. Why should this be? The answer, in my view anyway, is that there’s an intellectual virus of sympathy for violence on the Islamo-gauchiste far-Left that goes back quite a long way, a history of supporting and glorifying so-called revolutionary resistance, via Frantz Fanon from Mao to Che Guevara to the Shining Path to Hamas, a view that has seeped into broader Leftist culture, We all know the consequences in real life. Yes, there are exceptions, but it appears to me that a Left-wing mob has a propensity to violence which a Right-wing demonstration does not. No-one expects American cities to be burned down by the Right in reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder as they were after the killing of George Floyd. You don’t find pro-Israel groups wrecking RAF jets or intimidating opponents on election night. To my belief, no-one is frightened by last week’s anti-abortion March for Life in London, but Antifa, or the fringe to the trans movement, are genuinely scary (and if you doubt the latter, read Kathleen Stock on X this week). Too much of the modern Left plays along with this. It is after all they who say “words are violence” or who talk about the structural violence of colonialism or capitalism, language chosen to help justify a violent response. It is they who casually refer to moderate opponents as far-Right, fascists, or even Nazis. And – see Alastair Campbell’s embarrassing apology for asserting that Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gay people to death – it is they who are quick to think the worst of their opponents. It needs to stop."
Charlie Kirk’s killing proves identitarian Leftism is an explicitly violent ideology - "Humanities students now study the works of the likes of Frantz Fanon, the Algerian post-colonialist who suggested that violence could serve as a “cleansing force” that helps the colonised process their subjugation. From this therapeutic perspective, violence loses its negative connotations. It is reframed as an act of self-care, which, in course, dehumanises its victims. For the Left, capitalism and colonialism are tied together, so Fanon’s advocacy for cathartic and violent expression of Algerian identity against the French is readily adaptable to whoever or whatever they perceive to be oppressing them today. They have internalised the sensibility of victimisation, and from this identitarian perspective the so-called victims of the system are thought thoroughly justified in embracing the politics of violence. Just look at their response to the callous cruelty of Kirk’s murder, and observe how the conservative activist has been cast into the role of a non-person and how others are fair game to be targeted. One TikTok post stated, “We need to find people with better aim”, implying that other conservative figures too should be murdered. Others have actively incited people to have a go at killing prominent Right-wing personalities. The podcaster Joe Rogan, the commentator Ben Shapiro and Harry Potter author JK Rowling were just some of the individuals designated as suitable targets of political violence. Listen to Charlotte Hayes, the progressive TikToker, calling on her two-hundred thousand followers to “kill them all!”. And such statements were not just confined to the online world. Spray-painted graffiti saying “Kill All Charlie Kirks” at Seattle Central College illustrates the febrile celebration of violence the student community, just as rap due Bob Vylan’s mocking of Kirk’s killing on Saturday did for Left-wing music fans. One of the tragic consequences of the politicisation of identity is that it renders differences and disputes very personal. Unlike the traditional ideological arguments about competing policies and visions of the world, the politicisation of identity leads to the projection of negative sentiments and hatred towards people holding opposite views. It is principally directed at individuals who are not like them. Smartly dressed Charlie Kirk, a young father of two children, with strong religious beliefs personified someone that in the eyes of Left-wing activists is OK to hate. When they chant “Kill them all” what they really mean is that it is OK to slaughter those who are on the wrong side of the cultural divide. Their unrestrained hatred seamlessly leads to the dehumanisation of their victims. See, for example, the way sections of the Left reacted to the barbaric murders Hamas committed three years ago in Israel on October 7. Their self-satisfied endorsement of this massacre indicates just how much they have become distanced from the norms of civilised democratic behaviour. Or look at the murder of Brian Thompson, the 50-year-old CEO of UnitedHeathcare... We must wise-up to the fact that reactions such as these are not the actions of a few infantile or radicalised individuals, it is baked into the modern Leftist world-view."
Do Australian conservative students feel safe? | The Spectator Australia - "The day the news broke, it was all anyone could talk about. In one of my classes that day, a student asked the teacher what they thought about Charlie Kirk being murdered. While there’s no official transcript of the teacher’s exact words, it was essentially along the lines of, ‘I think it’s great. He kind of deserved it.’ Then, another student spoke up – half-joking, half-testing the boundary. ‘What about Trump? Should he be assassinated too?’ Again, the teacher shrugged and said something along the lines of, ‘Yeah, I hope so. The world would be better off.’ This is deeply concerning. It wasn’t just an inappropriate comment. It was a teacher, an adult, a person in power, endorsing violence. They were expressing joy that someone had been murdered and wishing the same fate on another. And in that moment, two issues became clear. Firstly, the teacher should not have made any political statement at all. Classrooms are not platforms for personal ideology. As noted by the Senate Education and Employment Committee, teachers are expected to remain impartial and avoid letting personal beliefs influence students’ learning or treatment. This is a larger issue in itself, as evidenced by other moments I’ve experienced this year – like when one teacher made our class line up in order of whether we preferred Trump or Obama (the teacher later said they aim to have everyone on the Obama side by the end of the year), or when another continuously casually referred to Trump as a ‘Nazi’ (which I found ironic, considering Trump is a strong supporter of Israel)... Secondly, when an adult in authority says a political figure ‘deserved’ to die, or that they ‘hope’ another is killed, the classroom boundary shifts. The comment does not stay theoretical. It normalises violence as a legitimate endpoint of political disagreement. It replaces debate with elimination. One of the first phrases to appear on my school’s website is their declaration of offering an education where students uphold moral values. I can only wonder what morals ‘murdering people you don’t like’ aligns with. Teachers are not just content-delivery systems. They are role models, whether they want to be or not. Their words carry extra weight because grades, references, and daily approval sit behind them. When a teacher signals that murder is an acceptable outcome for the ‘wrong’ politics, students hear two messages:
To those who oppose the targeted figures: your anger has permission to escalate; murder is sometimes okay and a good thing.
To those who share the targeted ideology: you are not safe here. The adult in charge would prefer certain people like you to be dead.
A student in that second group could reasonably think, ‘If my teacher wants someone of my ideology dead, how am I safe in this room? Will my marks suffer if I speak up? Will my classmates pile on because the teacher set the tone?’ Even if no mark is ever changed, the chilling effect is real. Silence becomes self-defence. That is not education. That is intimidation by ambience. Cultures are built from countless moments where adults either raise the standard or lower it. Every time authority figures treat violent talk as witty or righteous, they sand down the taboo. They make extremity feel normal. For a tiny, unstable minority, ‘normal’ becomes action. That is why leaders across politics denounce violence even against opponents they despise: not because they’ve suddenly turned into friends, but because they understand that permission is contagious. Open political discussion is healthy – when done properly. As a politically active student, I’ve found the best teachers are the ones who keep the centre steady, invite competing views, and create a space where disagreement sharpens you, not silences you. But what I experienced in that lesson is different. Hoping someone is assassinated is not ‘joining the debate’. It is the opposite of debate... Schools like mine will claim to prioritise respect, impartiality, and student wellbeing – and on paper, they do. But the evidence clearly does not show this. Politics in the classroom is at higher levels than ever, fuelled by an increasingly radicalised media landscape and online echo chambers. The last thing we need is teachers, the very people meant to model calm, informed behaviour, engaging in lies, hate, and promoting violence. If a classroom cannot keep faith with words over violence, we will keep waking up to headlines that ask, again and again, how a child learned to believe that killing is an answer."
Time to blame the "far right" for violence and to jail them
Martyrs of free speech | The Spectator Australia - "His death silenced a career and destabilised a network built to expand democratic discourse. Authoritarian regimes go after precisely this kind of structure because it sustains the habit of disagreement. Kirk was combative, yet his instinct was engagement rather than annihilation. He thrived on questions from hostile audiences, often letting critics speak at length before responding point by point. He did not expect synthesis, yet he insisted that disagreement could be aired without contempt. His model was to keep adversaries talking, even when consensus was impossible. That discipline of encounter – argumentative without being insulting – is what separates democratic conflict from the endless sneer of partisanship. Kirk understood something many politicians forget: democracies require conflict. Arguments, however heated, reveal where societies strain and where they can bend. His campus debates forced both supporters and opponents to spell out their positions under pressure, producing information no focus group could ever supply. Australia reveals how democracies can suffocate debate without firing a shot. The problem here comes from inside the walls. Dissent is often strangled before it has a chance to be heard. Senator Jacinta Price discovered this when she remarked that high immigration tends to benefit governments in power – an observation well within the mainstream of political science. Like Kirk, Price’s approach was straightforward without being inflammatory, empirical without being accusatory. Instead of counter-argument, she faced censure from her own colleagues: opposition leader Sussan Ley and manager of opposition business Alex Hawke. The claim was treated as taboo-breaking rather than a hypothesis to be tested."
Autism Capital 🧩 on X - "🚨 NEW: Ilhan Omar says Charlie Kirk’s legacy should be “left in the dustbin of history.”"
FischerKing on X - "If some right-wing fanatic shot Greta Thunberg, and some GOP congressman went on TV and said this - it would end his career."
Where is America’s 9/11 spirit? | The Spectator Australia - "There was no “But” in Sanders’s condemnation of Kirk’s assassination, no self-righteous enumeration of his countless – and doubtlessly vehement – disagreements with Kirk, and no attempt to put political points on the board. Only a sincere expression of condolences and articulation of unifying principles. All was as it should be. Sadly, Sanders’s words were made all the more moving by their loneliness... The day after Kirk fell, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) joined Mehdi Hasan for a session in which they – among other indignities – mocked the self-evident truth that Kirk believed in the power of civil debate. Reps. Dave Min (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA), meanwhile, glibly attempted to make a political profit off of Kirk’s murder by misleading the public about the perpetrator. “Now that the Charlie Kirk assassin has been identified as MAGA, I’m sure Donald Trump, Elon Musk and all the insane GOP politicians who called for retribution against the ‘RADICAL LEFT’ will now shift their focus to stopping the toxic violence of the RADICAL RIGHT,” mused Min. “It doesn’t matter that Kirk’s killer was a straight white male. Or that he was from a Republican family that voted for Donald Trump. Violence has NEVER been the answer,” submitted Swalwell. Let the reader understand: authorities have identified the alleged shooter as a man “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology” whose partner was transgender. Kirk was shot while discussing the phenomenon of transgender mass shooters... Twenty-four years ago, Americans came together to face a common enemy. Today, they’re coming together on opposing sides of a battlefield, tragically convinced that their enemies have lived next door all along."
The left wingers who realise that they were spreading misinformation will not acknowledge that Democratic politicians joined in the fun too
Natalie Jean Beisner on X - "Not for nothing, but Charlie Kirk married a woman five years older than he. Mrs. Charlie Kirk will be 37 in November. She also double majored in political science and international relations. She played basketball at the collegiate level. She was Miss Arizona USA and competed for Miss USA. She has a Juris Master degree and a doctorate in Christian leadership. She worked in modeling, acting, and as a casting director. She’s the CEO of Proclaim Streetwear and Bible in 365. She has a podcast, and as of this year, she was apparently working as a real estate agent. All that to say that those spreading the lie that Charlie was some depraved misogynist who believed in denigrating women and needed some mousy wife at home to live under his boot, not only aren’t listening to his words but also aren’t looking at his life and the woman he chose to make a wife. Did he believe in biblical gender roles? Yes, it seems like he did. Did he question whether young women should go to college? Yes, but he also questioned whether young people should go at all. Did he fall in love with and make a wife of a Christian woman who had her own life and degrees and accomplishments and even—gasp—made her own money? Yeah, seems like he did. So can everyone just stop now?"
Larry Elder | Facebook - "The Trump-deranged part of the American left shed more tears for illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia—MS-13 gang member, wife beater, trafficker of illegal aliens and solicitor of nude photographs from a minor—than for Charlie Kirk, a hero to conservatives."
Vance Claims Charlie Kirk Didn't Belittle Black Women: VIDEO - Comic Sands
Left wingers demonstrating their abysmal comprehension skills again (as on George Takei's Facebook - given how often his team spam this site Comic Sands, they must own it). You cannot teach someone who refuses to learn
Meme - Nurses Against Dick Pics.: "Fuck him."
"Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to steal a white person's slot." - Charlie Kirk, July 2023
Readers added context: "He did not say this, he mentioned Specific individuals being DEI hires and them not having the brain power to be taken seriously. His comment was intentionally misconstrued to make him seem racist. Its worth noting the title of this video is not accurate to its contents"
Frank J. Fleming: "The left invent an imaginary version of you in their heads and sometimes get so angry at this imaginary version of you that they murder the real you."
Andy Ngo on X - ""You've been training your whole life for this, guys." The Antifa subreddit on @Reddit has made a post saying why Charlie Kirk and those like him deserve to be killed. To smear him, they reference a Media Matters @mmfa hit piece and tell their comrades to arm themselves with weapons. The post echoes the Antifa belief that if you speak with a "Nazi," you are also one and should be subject to death."
Colin Wright on X - "Groups like Media Matters publish defamatory hit pieces, saturated with extreme rhetoric designed to inflame violent actors. MM currently has 2 articles that label me "anti-trans" and suggest that I'm campaigning to deny mental-health care to suicidal children. These are dangerous lies."
Andy Ngo on X - "The Antifa cell in Corvallis, Ore. has published an after-action report on the fallout from Charlie Kirk’s assassination. They admit fearing the loss of their ability to mark conservatives for death with no pushback — especially as some apolitical institutions, groups and businesses now feel safer expressing sympathy to Kirk’s family and supporters. They also concede that attacks on @seanfeucht ’s Christian worship events have been a PR disaster, with cameras showing masked Antifa militants assaulting families and children at those events. To counter a possible cultural shift away from their dehumanization tactics that are mainstream on the left, Antifa suggest exploiting divisions on the right to divide and conquer. They suggest using Israel as the wedge issue."
Erik on X - "As a lifelong Democrat, I didn’t know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I’ve since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we’re on the right side of history. Well, I’m crossing the aisle—I just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?"
Walter Kirn on X - "No one is going to buy the left's reinvention itself as some libertarian champion of free expression. Not after the decade of woke mania. Not after their misinformation and disinformation crusades. Not after their witch hunts over micro aggressions etc. Not after making campuses and offices zones of fear and intimidation for everyone with the slightest traces of unorthodoxy. They have just chained themselves to an issue on which they have no, even negative, credibility and a record of infinite hypocrisy and bad faith. It's going to go very poorly indeed because in about fifteen minutes they will want to reclaim their old controlling, authoritarian ways."
Rob Jenkins on X - "Remember reading about how Hitler would visit college campuses just to have conversations with young people? He’d tell them things like, “Get married and have kids” and “become the best version of yourself.” Then he’d let them say whatever they wanted and politely debate them."
Hodgetwins on X - "We shouldn’t be surprised that the left thinks the shooter is Conservative They think men are women"
𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐡 on X - "If you believe people deserve to be shot for their opinions don’t cry when you get fired for yours."
HowlingMutant on X - "If you as a leftist want to understand why people are upset about the Charlie Kirk assassination try to picture it happening to someone you empathize with, like a black rapist or something"
Benny Johnson on X - "BREAKING: A family member of Lance Twiggs, who was the transgender “boyfriend” of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson says family cut ties with Twiggs due to his “hostility toward anyone supporting conservative or Christian values” and confirm Robinson lived with him."
Clearly, Tyler Robinson was a Conservative
