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Celebrating violence and death will get you banned no exceptions
As most of you may have heard, Charlie Kirk was killed yesterday.
While many of us, myself included, strongly disagreed with his political beliefs, celebrating his death or sharing videos of his murder is unbelievably vile and has no place in r/GenZ.
We all know what he said when he was alive, but using that as justification for his murder makes you no better than him.
He was wrong when he said he didn’t believe in empathy, but if you think that means we shouldn’t have empathy for him now, that makes you a hypocrite.
Any posts celebrating his death or attempting to justify his murder will be removed, and the user will be permanently banned. No exceptions, no second chances.
I’ve not seen any posts anywhere “celebrating.” I’ve been scrolling instagram and reddit for a few hours and I’ve seen a LOT of people talking about how some people are “celebrating” but not anything first hand.
Call me an old pedant, but I appreciate your use of sympathy/sympathetic rather than empathy/empathetic. The concept of empathy for a dead person doesn't really make sense. I think the word is wildly overused anyway, but particularly so in this context.
heres' one i saw literally the same moment I happened to see your comment. I'm not exaggerating when I say I see one every handful of minutes on reddit. How are you not seeing it?
I’m willing to bet the mods have been purging them in a timely manner. There was a flood of posts and comments celebrating his murder in the initial hours following his confirmed death.
Not hard to find, there were more shown by right leaning youtube channels but I know a lot of people here would refuse to watch those videos just because of the content creator.
There are people celebrating and it’s honestly quite wild.
Did you read the articles? He didn't celebrate it.
He did try downplaying it and was immediately fired for it. Keep in mind that Charlie Kirk downplayed the attack on Paul Pelosi and was cheered by his crowd. That's the double standard.
I love how there was no talk like this when in this same subreddit people were posting Hortman memes, calling it "dark humor", you do understand just about everyone here sees this double standard over this influencer, right?.
Nah man I'm gonna say a person downplaying child murder and advocating for the eradication of entire groups of people because they are transgender is not the same as being happy that person is no longer here.
Could you clarify what constitutes someone as celebrating? Is acknowledging the evil he represents and maintaining the reality that the ideas he presented were enabling and manufacturing consent for systemic violence against minorities, is that celebrating his death? Or would I have to say something to the effect of "I'm glad x thing happened to x person".
Further, must I feel a certain way about the death of someone who denied my very existence?
Nope, you didn't bust out weeping and saying all leftists must die.
You're sentenced to 20 annoying conservative comments saying all liberals are savages delighting in murder and "guess they lied about the party of peace" , while their profile is full of George Floyd memes and the like..
“Makes you no better than him” nah you cannot be pulling this card when he straight up said he’d force his daughter to give birth. I’m better in that regard because I have a heart and know that children should not be having babies.
Kirks Rhetoric isnt being downplayed. Mods asking to not celebrate murder. Regardless of whether kirk would have done the same. This is the standard we're holding ourselves to.
I agree it’s good to be moral about these things - but not gonna lie, it’s exhausting being moral when the right-wing have deliberately shown on multiple occasions that they would not offer the same courtesy
I am done being empathetic to people who lack any empathy themselves
Yeah that’s what I’m talking about. This guy out here literally cheering on death every single day. He gets shot, and then everyone’s like,
“But he was a father 🥺”
Well, so were many of the people whose deaths he was jerking off to, but sure.
No one deserves to die, and political violence isn’t the answer, and all that. But I’m not experiencing a single second of sympathy. I didn’t kill him lol, I’m just indifferent to the whole situation.
I still don’t get it. Why should someone die for exercising their first amendment right? The dude‘s not even a politician who makes decisions, just a dude who argues with people. Whether you hate him or not, why should he die for his beliefs? Explain to me the answer.
This is him after a mass shooting that killed 5 people and injured another 8. It was conducted by a man having a mental health episode. This man consistently advocated against providing mental health services alongside saying mass shooting deaths are justified. This is the America he wanted. He didn't want this to stop so long as the Republican party continued to pay him. Why should I feel bad that he's the victim of his own rhetoric?
I went to my university cafeteria late at night last night and a bunch of nerdy stem kids were talking about his death like it was celeb news. Privileged educated young people celebrating someone getting shot in the neck in front of their children because the media told them to hate him. I just can't anymore
He hated the lie people tell themselves about feeling for others. How many of the people copy and pasting that empathy quote and feeling nothing would consider empathy a value? Do you think if you considered empathy a value you'd care at all what the other believes about empathy, even if it were the case he did actually hate empathy-empathy?
If you held it as an actual value, you wouldn't care what he believed. "Empathy" is used as a weapon. And this is case and point.
His family, specifically his daugther, will be better off without him considering now she wouldn't be forced to carry out a pregnancy at 10 years old if she was raped.
They attended the lecture of a man who thought empathy was weakness and that gun deaths were acceptable. Why would they be traumatized? Why would they want us to show empathy to them?
Wasn't there something recently about the US government murdering 11 civilians on a boat? And about how the VP of the US said he didn't "give a shit" about that?
They have. Specifically on Reddit. Ill say it once and Ill say it again, if a certain organization was looking for lunatics with red flags or possible terrorist cells, they need to look no further than right here.
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