No decent person should greet a murder with anything but grief, and I share in mourning the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk. His wife and children deserve compassion, not vitriol. Yet it is precisely here that your eulogy stumbles: to frame Kirk as a champion of civility is to overwrite the record of his public life.
Kirk made a career out of polarization, inflaming divisions for profit and power! However earnestly you invoke Daryl Davis or the language of dignity, it strains belief to cast Kirk in their company. Civility is not mere tone—it is a practice of truthfulness and restraint. To defend it while exalting a figure who trafficked in contempt undermines the very ideals you champion. Honor his humanity, yes. But honesty demands we not confuse the hope of civility with the politics of provocation that defined him.
I agree that the violence in our country must stop. But, Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was extremist and hate-filled.
There are no buts. When you start prevaricating with the language of buts you’re justifying violence.
No decent person should greet a murder with anything but grief, and I share in mourning the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk. His wife and children deserve compassion, not vitriol. Yet it is precisely here that your eulogy stumbles: to frame Kirk as a champion of civility is to overwrite the record of his public life.
Kirk made a career out of polarization, inflaming divisions for profit and power! However earnestly you invoke Daryl Davis or the language of dignity, it strains belief to cast Kirk in their company. Civility is not mere tone—it is a practice of truthfulness and restraint. To defend it while exalting a figure who trafficked in contempt undermines the very ideals you champion. Honor his humanity, yes. But honesty demands we not confuse the hope of civility with the politics of provocation that defined him.