I find it personally deeply upsetting. Kirk was a very religious-y person and I’m an implacable atheist, so there there lots of things I disagreed with him on. But what he encapsulated to me is “free speech”. He debated with everyone, openly, without hostility, honestly, directly. He was without guile, laid it out on the table, kind to a fault, and, most dangerously of all to the left, extremely convincing. To me that makes him one of the greatest men of the 21st century. Free speech is, to me, probably the greatest virtue and basic foundation of all of society, and yesterday the men who couldn’t win the argument took out its greatest, happiest warrior.
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Samizdata quote of the day – Charlie KirkSeptember 11th, 2025 |
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When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts… when you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group.
Charlie Kirk, RIP. That quote of his comes from this article.
He went into the colleges and universities to talk to young people, to listen and inform.
Many on the left chose to celebrate in a series of truly sickening tweets and videos when one of the most deranged of their number took the law into his own hands and murdered a man who’s only crime was a willingness to engage with them and challenge their ideas. For this he had to die and his death be treated as a reason for celebration – including by the incoming president of the Oxford Union who debated with Kirk earlier this year and viewed his death as reason for a good old Lol. Utter filth.
Along with the brutal slaughter of the young Ukrainian girl and the horrific indifference of her fellow passengers it’s been a pretty grim couple of days.
Well said.