Too many people pearl clutching today over worries of retributive violence, as if the fascists aren’t already going to be committing that violence on us in the near future regardless. It’s not too early to say that this scumbag deserved much worse and I’m glad he got rocked so publicly. Mods I’ll understand if you delete this and I’m truly sorry for the trouble if you do, I just need a personal break today from the media cacophony of liberals collectively reconciling with the realization that we live in an abnormally and horrifically violent society.

      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        105·
        4 days ago

        Specifically, he was in the middle of spinning a question about mass shootings into a dog whistle about “gang violence”.

          • Glide@lemmy.ca
            96·
            3 days ago

            The order of events as I’ve been seeing online:

            Videos circulating on social media showed an attender at the student event on Wednesday asking Charlie Kirk: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”

            In response, Kirk said: “Too many,” as the crowd clapped.

            In a follow-up question, the attender asked: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

            Kirk replied: “Counting or not counting gang violence?”

            His last act on earth was cracking a joke about how only queers and poors are involved in gun violence, at which point he was shot.

            • icylobster@lemmy.world
              32·
              4 days ago

              Thanks for extra context. These people really don’t seem to care about others suffering. Also I don’t normally hear gang violence and mass shooters together. Gang violence is generally targeted and not focused on the most amount of bodies.

              Regardless I’m getting tired of this all, and it’s likely only beginning.

              • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
                20·
                4 days ago

                It’s a regularly used debate tactic of the right. He was going to imply that whatever number the student came up with for mass shootings was inflated because the criteria was too vague and erroneously counts gang violence. He would then have used this to simultaneously downplay the seriousness of mass shootings and suggest that trans people represent a larger proportion of mass shooters than they actually do. It was his way of discrediting the argument that the student was making; that trans people are actually underrepresented in the population of mass shooters. The reason for the student making this argument - if you don’t know - is that Charlie Kirk has blamed trans people for mass shootings in the past, jumping on the conservative bandwagon that always transvestigates mass shooters because they believe they are a trans conspiracy.

                • tpyo@lemmy.world
                  9·
                  2 days ago

                  Thank you because I know a bit, but I don’t know enough about him and his shtick to understand the greater context. I’m also not familiar enough with those dog whistles to catch them all out in the wild

                  Edit: spelling

            • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
              13·
              4 days ago

              You know how in certain types of antihero drama where the protagonist is an assassin, they’re always careful to make the target as cartoonishly obnoxious as possible at a kind of cue to let the audience know that they’re not supposed to feel bad for them?

              They could use this verbatim as the script.

            • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              17·
              4 days ago

              I think it was the asker who also said “great.” sarcastically when gang violence was mentioned (just before the shot), adding to the timing.

    • Formfiller@lemmy.world
      71·
      4 days ago

      Those chicks seemed like smug ass Karen’s. It’s scary how well composed and dedicated to the narrative they were after witnessing someone they liked being shot but then again they were fans. Nazis