No, I won't be shedding any tears for Charlie Kirk

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/no-i-wont-be-shedding-any-tears-for-charlie-kirk/

Daniel Villarreal (11 Sep 2025)

Charlie Kirk believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake," that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness, that men should physically attack transgender people, that all women should submit to their husbands, and that Black professionals "steal" their jobs from more qualified white people.

Kirk used his massively influential, billionaire-funded "young conservative organization" Turning Point USA to spread these hateful views on a grand scale to a rising generation of copycat, crypto-fascist, edgelord trolls. And now that he's been publicly slain in a horrific assassination, President Donald Trump has hailed Kirk as a "wonderful American" and a "martyr for truth and freedom."

"When a public figure dies, you are not obligated to manufacture sorrow for someone who did not live in a way that earned your compassion," wrote psychotherapist Dr. Dionne Mahaffey-Muhammad yesterday in a public Facebook post that I've begun sharing online. "There is a difference between refusing to speak ill of the dead and forcing yourself to honor a life that may have caused harm."

"Choosing not to mourn someone who caused harm is not out of alignment with your spiritual beliefs," she continued. "... That doesn't make you coldhearted, and it doesn't mean you are wishing harm on anyone. It simply means you are being honest about your boundaries."

There is an interesting article about his religious beliefs and how they shape his worldview. I won't link to it, but people can find it if interested. In a nutshell, he belongs to a certain "church" that has some... views. Other members of that denomination include a Trump spiritual adviser and the Speaker of the House, Johnson.

Make of it what you will.

Honestly I am much more concerned about the 2 kids that were shot in a school shooting the same day

I didn't even know who Charlie Kirk was until California governor Gavin Newsom did a friendly interview with him a few months ago.  

During that interview, Newsom essentially threw the trans community under the bus.  It was all the more reason to question how safe I really was in my home state of California.  Since then, healthcare providers have curtailed trans care for youth and it's apparent that adults will be targeted next.  

I left the US in June.  I don't consider any state to be truly safe anymore.  The fascists running the federal government want us gone.  

It's ironic that Charlie Kirk did me a favour by exposing the truth about a supposed ally.

I didn't wish Charlie Kirk dead, but good riddance.

Charlie Kirk spent years spreading hateful rhetoric that encouraged violence against LGBTQ+ people. I never advocate or support violence of any kind, but there are people I won't pretend to mourn when they're gone. Kirk was one of them, and the current occupant of the White House is also on that very short list. Even so, I'm content to wait for them to pass away by natural causes—and to let them face whatever fate their actions have earned for spreading hate and bigotry in this life. As many have noted, Kirk's hate-filled record should not be whitewashed or sanitized now that he's gone. He was neither a good Christian nor any kind of saint, despite efforts by those on the far-right to recast him as one.