Charlie Kirk's assassination has shocked the nation. While I do not agree with his views on many things, I believe the vast majority of us would agree that we do not wish him death, or even maimed. We can agree to disagree on many things. While his death will silence him, his ideas will live on, and you can't silence an idea.
However, MAGA's current clumsy attempt to maximize the propaganda value of Kirk's death by trying to venerate him, and the various overreaction to anything about Kirk that's NOT complimentary (posters of Kirk as a "saint", Trump floated the idea of giving Kirk a posthumous Medal of Freedom, FCC bullied Disney into suspending Jimmy Kimmel for a joke about Kirk, WaPo fired a black female reporter who cited an uncomplimentary quote by Kirk on black females for "endangering colleagues"...), IMHO, is dishonoring Kirk's legacy.
You don't get it? Let me walk you through this.
Why did Kirk's assassin do it?
To stop Kirk from speaking out, right?
So how does MAGA and those organizations kowtowing to MAGA (such as Disney, WaPo, etc.) react?
By stopping anything that's not "nice" about Kirk from being aired or even spoken on public media.
MAGA used the death of an outspoken man... as an excuse to CENSOR other people!
Oh, the irony.
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