My 'tribute' to Charlie Kirk

[hamsterjill]

68. I really do like your reasoning!

Yes, we should be able to express our feelings here without being shamed for saying what we feel and meaning it. It's who we are.

I think your point as to some having the need to exert power is especially interesting and accurate. There's one thread about "not making DU look bad". Are we really here to worry about an image? I'm not.

There is one particular long-time poster who responds quite regularly to people with "we need to be better than that". It's tiresome and as one other person posted today, it feels like a "Karen" (and I don't like that nickname!!!) is monitoring the board. We should each feel free to say what we want to say as long as it doesn't break the rules of conduct on DU, and if someone finds a post that they don't like, they can either alert or ignore.

I have honestly spent the greater part of today analyzing my feelings about Kirk's death. I'm not an unfeeling, uncaring person. I've questioned why I'm not more affected by his death. But I'm not a saint either. First and foremost, politically at least, I'm a feminist and that man would have taken more rights away from women in a heartbeat because of his religious views. He's no longer capable of doing that, advocating that, or causing further damage to the deterioration of anyone's rights in this country. The conclusion that I've come to after self-reflecting truly IS what I said - the universe spoke today. It had enough of Charlie Kirk and the hatred that he spewed. We mere mortals played no role in that decision.

It will be interesting once we know who the perpetrator was. Or perhaps we will never know if it was a "professional" job. The idea that it might be Putin sending a message to Trump that "no one is safe" crossed my mind. We certainly don't have enough information for that to be anything more than a spoken wondering. In the coming days we will learn more.

It's apparent and realistic that, at this point, this type of thing is going to become more commonplace. Like the school shootings, attacks on public figures will become more frequent. I don't want that to happen, but with Donald Trump spouting the hateful rhetoric that he simply cannot contain because he enjoys it - things will continue to get worse. We need to be ready and we are going to need to dispense our limited amount of compassion to those situations that we are inclined.

I appreciate your response and your kind words. I hope you have a great evening.