OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: August 26th, 2020

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  • Went to lunch with a friend today, it was nice until the topic of Charlie Kirk came up. I didn’t hold back my delight at his death and made clear that he deserved it. My friend immediately starts going on about how that makes me as bad as MAGA - an argument that I don’t engage with because it’s a stupid person argument - and how I’m radical, which I say “Yes!” to.

    He’s recently been pivoting hard into Christianity and I know he spends a lot of time on Reddit, likely where he forms his political opinions. He tried to spin me a story about this Christian woman who forgave the killer of her children… after 3 days. He expected me to be impressed but I just found the idea of that absurd. How could anyone possibly do that? How could someone else hear that and think it’s something to emulate or be proud of? It’s just absurd.

    I think he was trying to suggest people should forgive Charlie Kirk out of some Christian idealism - but no, why? I believe in second chances, but the man spouted evil up until the moment he died. He wasn’t sorry. This was his grift, this was his job.

    I felt a bit bad for ripping the woman he mentioned to shreds so I apologised if I offended him, and he ‘joked’ “no, I know you’re just not very intelligent.” This irked me because he is just like everyone else, going along with the mainstream narrative, believing and saying what they’re being told to say about Charlie. Not using any critical thought. He’s gay too (but white passing) and yet he doesn’t see the threat that people like Charlie Kirk are to us. His solution to people advocating for the removal of our rights and our murder is to forgive them. And yet I’m the unintelligent one.

    I don’t have respect for people like that. He will never contribute positively to liberation. He’s a citizen, he will happily live his life and be absorbed by his little problems, irrespective of what is happening around him, irrespective of the type of political climate he is living under - until it affects him. He’s my friend but equally people like that sicken me because they are the majority and their lack of attention to things that matter and their willingness to parrot what they’re told without critical thought is what enables all of this.