My Trans daughter's response to the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

[werdna]

UberFund

10:31 AM (1 hour ago)

He was a deplorable human being with deplorable viewpoints that probably cost many people their lives. He was a covid conspiracist, and took a direct part in bussing people to the Jan 6 insurrection, and also encouraged the riot. His actions more than likely lead to people's deaths. He was incredibly anti-lgbtq+, racist, anti semitic - name a marginalized group of people, and he hated them. He was misogynistic, and pushed a viewpoint that parents should "not let their daughters ever be prescribed birth control under any circumstance" because he felt the medications "made women angry and crazy, and that aligns with what the democrats want" He was a christian nationalist who argued to abolish the separation of church and state. He perpetuated russian propaganda on the ukrainian war and described the ordeal as a "Border dispute." He claimed that the issues at our southern border were far more important than the Ukrainian war and called those issues "An invasion." Israeli politicians described him as "A friend of Israel" and mourned his death. He was in support of israel. Here stood a man with so much hate in his heart, as well as the money and popularity to spread that hate to a wider audience. His actions and words undoubtedly cost people their lives in the pandemic, and has likely caused the suffering of many trans people- parents of trans adults and children who listened to his words, trusted him, and decided to enforce his views on their children-. I view him the same as trump. Someone who decided to forgo all human decency and became a monster who spewed nothing but hate and bigotry. I will not mourn him. May his soul move on to his next life, so that it may move beyond these horrid actions and either atone for them, or grow and take actions that counteract them.

I hold the belief that someone can cause so much damage to others in their life on such a scale that it becomes nearly impossible to truly understand the harm they've caused. I believe that people such as those forsake their humanity. They do not act in the best interests of the human race, and as such, symbolically become un-human. It can be easy to look at someone like Kirk and call it a loss of human life, but it's also impossible to tell just how much more damage he would have caused in the future. Just as it's impossible to say how many lives were lost because of his words, it too is impossible to say how many lives were saved because of the loss of his life.

To clarify: this scale goes beyond cold blooded murderers. It goes beyond a mass shooter who, in a moment of derangement, fired upon an open crowd. Those people are horrific, yes. Those people cause harm on the scale of tens to hundreds. People like Kirk cause harm on the scale of hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands.

People like Kirk, who's ideologies around mental health and gun laws enable that moment of derangement.

Kirk once said "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God-given rights."
I do not think he ever considered that he might be among those "Some gun deaths every year" when he said this. He treated the victims of gun violence as nothing more than a number and a statistic. He became nothing more than a number and a statistic in his own eyes.
It can feel cold to try to justify a death and call it just, or a good thing. But know that all of this comes not out of a hate for Kirk, but out of a love for the people whom he hated. It comes out of a love for my fellow trans folk, whom he sought the erasure of. It comes out of empathy for the palistinians and ukrainians who have been unjustly slaughtered in both genocide and war. It comes out of solidarity for every victim of gun violence whom he dehumanized. It comes out of compassion for the ethnic minorities that he feared. And it comes out of a love for all of humanity, and a hope for a brighter future.
~SolariaStarz

Emphasis mine - werdna

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Thank you for posting this

You should be proud of your child

[TommyT139]

2. Perfect summation.

I'm on another social media site where even among other trans people and so-called allies there is division on what responses are acceptable. Your daughter struck a perfect tone -- love for those Kirk targeted.

If there is a substack or blog link which I could post -- unless she'd rather I not -- I would be grateful, either here or via DM. It's a site with many trolls, so I don't want the hard-working MIRT members to be overburdened.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. I honestly didn't know much about him before yesterday.

I was familiar with the name and face, but he was never someone I paid much attention to. That was a very informative essay.

A vile person in life, it seems that in death he'll be like a ruptured boil that's exploded all over the body politic.