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For starters, before I even say anything else I first feel the need to say that my heart is genuinely broken for his family. He was a man who tolerated the death of children, he was a man who stood for cruelty and did so with a smile. But he was a father, and that was a part of his identity that we did not see and never will. His child will have to grow up mourning their father, watching people ridicule and insult him in his death and while everyone is valid for their anger towards him, I can’t imagine being in that position. A position in which you’re lost inside your grief while also learning what kind of person the one you’re grieving truly was.

That being said, Charlie Kirk was not a good person. He ate his words, and he choked on them. He claimed that the deaths caused by gun violence were worth it as long as it meant guns were still permitted. In that statement, in that belief, he made a claim that brought an unfortunate sting of irony to his passing.

But as a major snowflake pacifist leftist that is so hated by the right, I empathize with his family. I’m glad his words can’t poison the world, but I am devastated that death was the solution. I cannot believe that we’ve gotten to a point where violence is responded to with violence over and over and over, and I cannot believe that we’ve created a world where that cycle doesn’t end.

I can’t honestly say that I’ll be crying for that man. I can’t say that because I’ve been crying over dead and dying souls all around the world that HE would never shed a tear for. I cannot honestly say that I cry for him because he stood for the cruelty and hatred that I so proudly stand against. This is a moment where the right will take the opportunity to criticize the left rather than acknowledging that this is a cycle of violence. This is a moment where someone hatred got them killed, and they will go down as a martyr. Theres a quote I like, one that applies deeply to this situation.

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated.”

His hate injured him, enough to kill. I refuse to hate Charlie Kirk and drink his poison, but I refuse to pretend to mourn a man who lived for evil.

I hope his family recover and can grieve in peace, I have nothing but sympathy for his child. At the end of the day, someone lost a father.

But if you feel empathy for Charlie Kirk’s family, then you most certainly should feel empathy for Palestinians who experience this exact thing. Every. Single. Day.

zero crumbs bby

you devoured as usual queen

@lyla my exact opinion on this whole situation

LYLA EVERY. WORD. 👏🏼👏🏼

But also let me add something becuase I lied I’m not finished.

Charlie Kirk’s family deserves all the condolences, but I’m watching some people and I’m just thinking, oh. Oh wow. NOW we have empathy.

After all this time, children starving to death, babies being beheaded, people dying, being MURDERED. NOW we can muster up empathy. NOW we can say “nobody deserves this!!” But when it wasn’t Charlie Kirk, it didn’t matter? When it wasn’t someone who stood up for your beliefs, it didn’t matter? How dare some of you people on here. How dare you root for thousands of deaths and mourn one. How dare you disregard the truth—all death is a sad death—up until this moment.

I hope this opens so many eyes for so many people. I hope that you look at EVERY death with empathy. I hope that you take your feelings for Charlie Kirk and apply them to the Palestinians you don’t care for, for the school shooter victims you didn’t cry for, for everyone you called us snowflakes for caring about.

News flash. They mattered just as much as Charlie Kirk, but you weren’t crying over them, were you?

I’m disgusted by some of the people I’ve seen on here. I’m disgusted and enraged, and yet I still sympathize with Charlie’s family and loved ones. I hope they’re okay, or at least that they will be. And I hope some of you gain hearts out of this situation.

@lyla 👏👏👏

Lyla my queen you ate

I’m glad you all agree and that I’m not offending anyone 😭 love yall 😋

gorgeously written. i 100% agree

@Lyla You are so respectful w/ your opinions, Kyle, you could never

I dont like him either but damn i cant imagine see that irl n now their trauma with guns

@ava it was just horrible, I was sick

the recording itself??

god i can’t imagine witnessing that

lyla please run for president tyvm

preach!! i agree with what u said and i love that you are respectful about ur opinion

@edie-may unfortunately if i did, I’d say “love everyone!!” and immediately be called a manless feminist leftist snowflake female cat lady and lose 😓 which is all true! except I’m a dog person 😋

"But if you feel empathy for Charlie Kirk’s family, then you most certainly should feel empathy for Palestinians who experience this exact thing. Every. Single. Day"


PREACHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

As a Palestinian in the US that has lost some family members to the war, and as a person who is more on the democratic side of things, I really like this post because this is exactly what I was thinking. I really appreciate this and thank you for this. you are very mature and just thank you again. I really truly agree with everything you said. 🫶

@Lyla hello name twin!! it’s been so long since I’ve talked to you <3 I remember you telling me about being Palestinian a while back and we talked a bit about it, but right now I just wanna say that I’m so sorry for the family members you have lost due to the war. It breaks my heart how many people are consistently being hurt by this, you’re very strong. I’m glad you agree with me and found value in my words, it means a lot to me. I hope you’re doing well Ly 💕

tysm for the words i really appreciated it and I kinda needed that 🫶♥️ ty for taking the time to say hi and for remembering me. <3333

I completely agree, especially with the cycle of violence you mentioned. What many on the pro-Trump side fail to acknowledge is that political murders don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur in a climate where a president pardons offenders who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and brutally attacked police officers, while continually abusing his power to bend institutions to his will.

At the same time, Americans live in a country with dangerously loose gun laws, which revealed their consequences not only in Kirk’s assassination but also in Colorado, where two students were injured in a school shooting.

My heart also goes out for his children . But I can’t find myself being empathic for someone who didn’t believe in empathy in the first place