“prove me wrong.”
For years, the tagline of Charlie Kirk and his group, the turning point USA angered many to the left. In “An era of rage, There is nothing more triggered than the invitation to debate issues.
Actually, someone has now killed him for it.
The most chill about murder is that it was not surprisingly in a slight degree. It follows the two attempts by President Trump and the murder of a pair of Minnesota politicians.
I heard about the murder in Prague because I prepared to speak about the age of anger and increasing attacks on free speech. I was deeply saddened by the news. I knew Charlie and respected my attempt to challenge the conservative on college complexes. We all have received the danger of regular death (and more than Charlie) regularly, but there is still an hope that even the most deranged will leave these dangers in the idea rather than the action phase.
The killer left Charlie’s wife, Erica and her two young children as the latest victims of sensitive violence against a person who refused to be quietly.
We do not have to know much about the shooter to recognize anger. The person who killed Charlie did not see him as a father or even as a person. It is transformative, enables the effect of anger.
In my book, “Unavoidable Rights: Free speech at the age of anger,, I write about anger and in the rhetoric of anger for many people uncomfortable truths: “Today they want to accept something. They like it. It likes freedom that it is the ability to hate and harass without a sense of responsibility. It is surrounded by us that they are an exception to any way. Views, not only a dependence on the anger, is not an exception.
Charlie was brave, and he was a brush. He refused to receive the dangers by encouraging others to speak in our campuses.
He had hatred to place mirrors on the face of higher education, especially high at our premises, highlighting and hypocrisy. For decades, the faculty has purified its rank of conservatives and liberals. Facted with intolerance of most schools, Poll show A large percentage of students hides their values to avoid vengeance from faculty or their fellow students.
Charlie chose to change all that. Tpusa challenges people to join and argue. The response from some to the left is to garbage their tables and threaten students. Recently, in UC Davis, The police stood up and saw A tpusa was different as a tent.
Charlie is only the latest sufferers, and is unlikely to be final.
For months, some of us have warned of an increase in rhetoric of anger. Some believe that they can ride a wave of anger back into power. House Minority Leader Hakim Zeffrees (D., NY) has called for people to take the streets to save democracy and Posted a photo Branding a baseball bat itself.
Similarly, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced, “I am going to punch these sons in the mouth.”
Different radical groups welcome such anger rhetoric, especially antifa. The most violent-free speech group in the US, Antifa, has long attacked journalists and others with anti-views. In her “Antifa: Anti-fascist handbook, Professor Mark Brace said that “Most of the American chaos in antifa has been an anticipatory or anthetoritarian communist. … From that point of view, only a bourgeois fantasy idea as ‘free speech’ is unworthy of this way.”
Alleged shooter Tyler Robinson, 22, Allegedly Left Teltel Antifa Marking on evidence, which involves marking tablets marked with songs: “Bela Siao, Bela Siao, Bela Siao, Siao, Siao” (from an Italian anti -fascist anthem) and “O, O, fascist! Catch!”
I had testified earlier In the Congress about the dangers of antifa, and I discuss the group in my book. Despite such a warning, Democratic leaders have rejected those hazards or actually embraced antifa.
Former Democratic National Committee Vice President Keith Alison (D), who is now the Attorney General of Minnesota, had earlier celebrated how Antifa would strike Trump’s “fear”. Liberal site Antifa items sell To celebrate the violent group, involves “antefa infants”.
Some politicians privately expressed an alarm in their ranks growing violent speech. A democratic member told Axios, “Something [our supporters] Suggested … what we really need to do is ready to get the shot. ,
Are protesters Burning cars and dealershipsEven Lawyers and reporters On the left, Molotov is throwing cocktails at the left. There is something on the left Rolled Guloten And chanting, “We found the guillotine, you run better.”
Just before shooting at the University of Utah Valley, Kirk rallied the group with the signature mantra of “proving me wrong”. Someone killed him by killing him.
Of course, the murder has not proved anything, except that our country has an insensitive hatred. Someone preferred to kill Kirk, instead of engaging with himself or others, who organized anti -ideas.
It is properly debated and lack of dialogue that has triggered this type of violence. For those deep in the harsh silos of our news and social media, disagreements become rapidly unbearable.
Charlie is still exposing that hypocrisy. As I prepared to address Charlie’s murder in Prague, the anti -free speech groups were already using their murder to justify more limitations on free speech to deal with hatred and disintegration. This is the final dishonesty of his life and his legacy. Charlie died in a fight for free speech, challenging speech code and censorship.
Greater sensorship will not reduce the chances of political violence; This will only make the possibility of decreasing the possibility of another Charlie Kirk. Europe shows that extremist speech thrives under control. There is a banner year in portraying the new-Nazis as victims.
This is stopped by speech code to the rest of us. According to voting, only 18 percent of Germans feel free to express their opinion publicly. Even thirty -nine percent of Germans do not feel free to express themselves privately among friends. Only 17 percent feel free to express themselves on the Internet.
Charlie hated because he had highlighted the leftist intolerance of anti -ideas … in the alleged reason to achieve more tolerance. By challenging others to argue, he triggers a generation of speech-folkics, who is more interested in silenceing others than speaking on their own account.
Charlie hated to cancel others, blacklists and to show off the pretense and self-confusion to catch anti-ideas. He did this by standing in the way of loss.
Kirk, who came out of the shadow, can honor the conservatives by showing their memory that they will not remain silent. They can move forward and renew their similar challenge: “Provide me wrong.”
Jonathan Turley George is the writer of Public Interest Law at the University of Washington and is the author of the best selling “.Unavoidable Rights: Free speech at the age of anger,
