| Kyuu said: I intensely disliked him. He wasn't terrible enough to deserve dying so young...hundreds of millions of people are equally evil/brainwashed and I don't wish them death. |
I work in american politics on the opposite aisle to Kirk. I have not been on VGChartz in months but was curious what this little internet forum was saying and I am sadly disappointed. I expected a few outliers to be either celebrating or blaming the "radical left" however I didn't expect to find so few with empathy.
I've watched more Kirk content that I would like to admit. I call it "hate watching" where I enjoy watching something that gets me upset. However in all this time watching Kirk make offensive statements or bad faith arguments, I also found a respect for his willingness to debate. I know it was all either economically or power motivated for him but still he was open to it. Particularly of interests are the debates with the Oxford and Cambridge students where he was challenged by students that came very prepared. To his credit, I watched both of those from his youtube channel in full.
His death is a tragedy. Not only for his family but for our nation because we are so divided that many can't simply even denounce political violence. I now fear the same thing that his death will empower his movement and could lead to violence in retaliation.
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