Why Charlie Kirk is not George Floyd

[EnergizedLib]

I've seen comparisons and mentions to Charlie Kirk and George Floyd, thinking they're similar, that Charlie Kirk is their George Floyd moment.

I've seen people wanting statues of Charlie Kirk, wanting tributes, canceling for not mourning the hatemonger, wanting all-out war and even a Congressman insinuating he would've been the 13th Disciple if he had lived in Biblical times - something that is, of course, blasphemous.

Charlie Kirk's murder is being pinned on one individual, one young man who was going to trade school, a private citizen with no evidence anybody else was involved. Yet, Charlie Kirk is being treated like a martyr.

I've heard for years how George Floyd wasn't a good person. Okay, maybe he wasn't, but he was murdered by somebody who was part of a system, someone who showed corrupt, how ugly the badge often is. If George Floyd was committing a crime that night and wasn't cooperating, certainly kneeling on his neck was a little excessive, especially to the point that he stopped being a threat, right?

Think of Jeffrey Dahmer. I think all of us can agree Jeffrey Dahmer was not a good person. After he was beat to death in prison, maybe the only people who mourned his death were his closest loved ones, but the inmate who beat Jeffrey Dahmer to death didn't get released or get a medal, he got a life sentence for it. And that's an example that there are consequences to certain actions even if committed against someone as heinous as Dahmer was.

And George Floyd might've been a criminal, but excessive force was shown against him. People could say Walter Scott should've cooperated instead of running away. But Michael Slager planting evidence on him after shooting him was all I needed to know that he was guilty, and Laquan McDonald's killer more or less got a slap on the wrist and very little prison time, but I came to the conclusion the officer who shot him dead was guilty, because if you shoot someone as many times as Laquan McDonald was shot, they're eventually no longer a threat.

So, someone being a criminal is not license for those with authority to use any kind of force or violence on them just because.

People like myself in 2020 were outraged at a system. Their side is outraged over what appears to be the actions of a lone wolf, actions that have been condemned in bipartisan fashion.

[Walleye]

1. Police have an obligation to be responsible. They are allowed to carry guns and push people around. Under the color

Of authority. I think Floyd was set up with those counterfeit bills. I read somewhere where they do that, the haters. In any case, the two things are not remotely the same. The beef with police brutality has been going on forever. This kid had something against Charlie Kirk for something personal. It had nothing to do with authority.

[questionseverything]

4. I think the cop that killed him sold him dope out of the evidence room

And the cop used fake twenties, out of the evidence room for change

That’s why he was killed

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

2. Not George Floyd. More like Horst Wessel.

However, I can neither confirm nor deny that Charlie Kirk was ever a pimp.

[EnergizedLib]

3. I didn't even know who Horst Wessel was

Until this happened.

I blame myself for that.

[Initech]

5. There's literally one man to blame this whole thing on.

And that man - wait for it - is Rush Limbaugh. Yes, the OG republican hatemonger. He may be dead, but he definitely planted the seeds for the rise of Fox News, which gave birth to MAGA fascism and the MAGA dude bro podcast sphere.

Charlie Kirk should still be alive. The fact that MAGA is using this to cancel anyone they don't like is fucking insane. I've never been more scared of my country than I have in the last week. The FCC and Trump himself bullying Jimmy Kimmel into cancellation is crossing a line that should not have been crossed.

[EnergizedLib]

6. Yet, he got the Medal of Freedom

So will Kirk, ruining another sacred honor.