• testfactor@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Look, I fully agree Kirk was trash. You’re preaching to the choir here.

      But I shy away from saying “any extrajudicial killing is fine when it’s against someone I think is trash.”

      If he’d died a natural death the world would be a better place for it, but that doesn’t make it okay that he was murdered.

      It’s a dangerous game when we just start saying it’s okay to murder bad people without due process.

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        9 hours ago

        Charlie Kirk advocated violence. Charlie Kirk caused people’s deaths.

        I don’t see anyone here saying that it was correct to shoot him, but we don’t have to whitewash his history.

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          8 hours ago

          I mean, in this exact thread, lol: https://lemmy.world/comment/19339137

          Plenty of people are saying it was correct and good to shoot him.

          And I’m not whitewashing his history. He was the worst kind of asshole. I’m not sad he’s dead. But there are in fact a lot of people on this site arguing that it was the absolutely correct thing to do to extrajudicially murder him, and that’s where I disagree.

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        18 hours ago

        Due process would be nice, but it doesn’t seem to be a thing in the US anymore for anyone leaning right.

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        21 hours ago

        I don’t think many people are saying it’s ok he was murdered. Just that we aren’t that upset about it.