While it's human nature to be more emotionally impacted by a tragedy when it affects an individual personally, I find it progressively more commonplace, and frankly progressively more disturbing, to see large quantities of people not exhibit a shred of empathy, nor sympathy when said horrific occurrence occurs outisde their orbit. If and when I ever inquire how the aforementioned tragedy impacted them, I'm typically met with a shrug of the shoulders and the same sentiment - "It will never happen to me." Yes, I'm more or less referring to the MAGA cult, or, I'll be nice and call it a movement (yes, in line with bowel movements, but I digress). Hard-line members of this...movement firmly believe, no matter what happens to people like Renee Good or Alex Pretti, there's zero chance of a similar fate meeting them. You'll hear them defend the ICE agents, who committed the murders of Mr. Pretti and Ms. Good, as just doing their job; following the rule of law;...
It's absolutely awful what happened to Charlie Kirk, but enough with the whitewashing. Two things can be true at once: 1) Kirk's assassination was a grave tragedy and 2) Kirk was an awful person. That doesn't mean he deserved to die. He didn't. But it also doesn't mean he deserves to be treated like a saint. He wasn't. Here are just a few of his quotes: - “We must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty... We need to be very clear that you’re not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. But I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment." - “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.” - “They (Black people) were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Som...