Let's revisit a grisly incident to see what it says about things.
After a career of dismissing mass
shootings and stoking political violence to silence those he disagreed
with, Charlie Kirk got shot on a college campus while debating gun death numbers. It's almost poetic.
To most people, this was just irony at work. But to centrist bullshit artists this was yet another opportunity to play genteel edgelords and prove that they can spin almost any position no matter how repugnant or factually bankrupt and still seem smart and reasonable to their readers.
Thus, they rushed to paint a totally unrecognizable portrait of Charlie Kirk. They turned the dead young demagogue into a non-violent champion of free speech who only loved a good debate. Naturally, they said they disagreed with Kirk on most things, but then they portrayed him as some modern Socrates. Their portrait was so grotesquely distorted that Dorian Gray's would howl with laughter, making any shaken guests immediately investigate the attic.
So, let's investigate the attic, because there's a mess of interesting things up there. I'll talk about Kirk first, then his amoral apologists. It's going to be a long look at most everyone involved because it's enormously important to recognize the rhetorical reflexes that still shape elite idiot opinion. They made and maintain the hellscape we inhabit today, and we must understand how they did it before we can fix it.
