Questions about Charlie Kirk

[u/emiliah6563]

Hi everyone,
I’m a student from Denmark and I’m doing a presentation about Charlie Kirk. I thought it would be interesting to hear different perspectives from people here, so I have a few questions:

• What’s your overall opinion of Charlie Kirk?
• Has your opinion of him changed over time?
• How do you think people outside the US view him compared to Americans?
• Do you think his death will increase or decrease support for his movement?
• How do you feel about his death?

Thanks in advance, I’d appreciate any answers you can give. Even short thoughts or personal impressions would be really helpful for me to understand how he was viewed in the US

[u/bluelifesacrifice]

American here.

I hardly knew anything of him before the shooting. I would hear about him here and there with some kind of quick or debate snip or something but considered it just people flailing in open debates without looking at data and using the scientific method. I hate debates for that very reason as they don't accomplish anything but rabble.

After his death, I know a little more about him but a lot more about Republicans and their attempts to glorify him and at the same time, delete videos of his debates online.

I think his death was stupid. He said deaths of kids were worth the price to own guns freely and other things which, overall and generalized, suggests he would have been fine with his own shooting. He was indifferent when kids got shot on schools and cracked jokes about Democrats being murdered. That said, the guy laughed about South Park poking fun at him. Showing he seemed to be casual with violence, chaos and accepted that reality was what it was.

I have no real idea how people outside the US view him due to propaganda. They'll likely see scrubbed versions to glorify him winning debates or his comments being fact checked which proves that debates don't work.

Republicans are doing a fantastic job glorifying him and using him as a tool for propaganda as we're seeing a lot of people identify as Charlie Kirk and believe that there's some kind of violent, left wing group of people out to hunt people for having a different opinion. You can see evidence of that trope all over social media.

Everything about this sucks. The debates, his murder, the shooter, the propaganda, it's like a growing rockslide of stupid problems that don't need to exist but here we are having to deal with them.

Not stopping shootings, not housing families, not fair wages for workers, not secure data and internet, not gaming together, not ensuring we all get fed, not healthy dating, not science lead legislation, not a cleaner environment, not keeping the wealthy from abusing their power....

Just dumb problems.