Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.
Most people in the real world outside of the internet didn’t even know who this guy was until yesterday, especially outside the US. When I was talking to my roommate after it happened the first thing he said was “who’s Charlie Kirk?”
Which is actually a bit of a problem, he’s been pretty effective at being a propaganda spreading machine.
I will say that seeing all his no empathy pro-gun death comments coming back to be used against him does warm the cockles of my heart.