Why are Charlie Kirk's words now off limits?

[misanthrope]

This erudite and thoughtful man condemns the violence while simultaneously questioning the disingenuous actions and words of the American media and political right wing.

[rsdsharp]

1. Because if people actually know his views he can't be canonized.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Because they harm MAGA esteem.

[underpants]

3. Vague and empty on purpose. They are selling his aura.

He’s got such a nasty horrible past they want to establish him as righteous so as people learn his past they dismiss it as either just being negative or that he reformed.

I didn’t pay much attention to him but I’d say I’ve noticed that he’d taken a more faith based or spiritual turn since Trump’s back in office. I think he was planning on running for office. He brings his followers with him and he was adding the evangelicals.

[yellow dahlia]

4. It's not our fault that Kirk said vile things.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Considering all the vile shit he said,

repeating his words now must only be to use them against him, and that's "speaking ill of the dead."

When there's nothing good to say about the dead, we're to say nothing. How would you write a eulogy for, say, Lee Harvey Oswald? The right-wingers are in that position right now.

[SergeStorms]

10. But they'll attack like rabid Wolverines.....

whenever they like, including their so-called "president" and every right-wing mouthpiece in the media. There's never an apology or retraction, they just throw more fuel on the fire. They coined the words, "double standards."

[Beartracks]

6. Because they are inconvenient for Republicans' narratives about Kirk. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

7. He was a martyr for stupidity. They just want to thank him.

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. Because they can't stand what they REALLY believe

being held up in the light. That's the bottom line.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Free Speech is under assault. Unless you speak MAGots language.

[Aussie105]

11. Republicans desperately want self validation.

They want a Martyr, a Saint, to validate their way of thinking.

Kirk's past words work against that, so they need to stifle any mention of his vile words; they need to ban those from being repeated, in short . . .

They need to rewrite recent history. And that is a Republican trademark.

It's part of the same illogical logic that makes it ok to support the droopy faced monster in the White House.