>>82490120 (OP)
Kirk was directly responsible for the violent environment that caused his death. The right has, without question, been extremely violent for its entire history in the US. During the original Trump administration we saw a rise of white nationalist paramilitary groups like the Proud Boys. In the 1900s groups like the KKK were extremely prevalent. We cannot ignore that the last recorded lynching in the United States was in 1981. The right is, and always has been, extremely violent. Right wing politics are, by definition, violent. No matter how hard they try to sanitize their message, right wing politics are inherently violent. This is the environment their rhetoric and actions lead to. Kirk was at the forefront of establishing this toxic culture in the present day. With this fact, Kirk was in a way responsible for his own killing.
The American Right has actively denied sympathy for the loss of life in the US for decades now. Kirk can be quoted saying that empathy is bad and toxic for the nation. Kirk considered school shooting deaths to be an "unfortunate necessity" to retain the right to own assault weapons. Kirk died immediately after projecting a racist microaggression while arguing about gun violence. The is no sympathy to give for a legitimate evil man who never had any sympathy for anyone else.
Already in the this thread you have people who likely made jokes about the deaths of many during their lifetime, who have no sympathy for anyone, but they are susceptible to propaganda and are bandwagoning the martyrdom of a corny "owning the libs" youtuber, screaming and crying about the oh so evil left. The left has been BEGGING for this level of concern from the right for decades. Now that it's a white guy on a computer screen they care.
Pure hypocrisy, selective outrage, and performative morality. They do not care about Kirk, they care about the excuse to be even more violent.
