Been seeing a lot of "if they'd celebrate his death, they'd celebrate mine" and "Charlie Kirk was us" on social media today. Loads of people who celebrated the assassination getting doxed and fired.
Luckily people I know have been mostly good. Either mourning his death, saying empathy matters most even if you disagreed with his opinions.
Unfortunately I saw one family member trot out the "Look he said some deaths were necessary for the second ammendment so don't get mad at people for not caring he's dead, he spewed hateful rhetoric"
Not exactly celebrating, but certainly condoning and what some people might call "victim blaming" a man who was shot in a horrific way in front of his family and in front of the world.
I have to think carefully about how to deal with that. They're a fairly close family member and more of a sheep who goes along with whatever is popular. I saw the term "brainwashed by evil" today and it fits here perfectly. I don't want to abandon family because they've given in to this mass psychosis and frothing fury sold by the left. But I don't know.
If they're apathetic about Charlie because of his support for 2A, would they be apathetic if I died if they knew I felt the same way? It's a rough time.
I didn't watch Charlie's content, not really my thing, but I've seen clips here and there. Seeing his death was shocking and depressing. Hearing about the kind of person he was only intensified that. It feels like an attack on the country, a true hatred of what the country stands for manifested and celebrated. I've been impacted by it far more than I would have thought. It does feel like mourning, but if it's for a person or something else I don't know.
Sorry for the sap posting. I have nowhere else I can talk about it.
Edit: Sorry I only just noticed that all discussion except for info should be taken to the other thread. I'm still catching up. If you want me to move this please let me know, it was neglect on my part to post before catching up.
