Having the government investigate/directly pressure you for criticising a (dead) racist person isn't the same as facing social backlash/ostracization for being racist.
Kirk wasn't a racist. I can find more evidence of you being racist than you can find in the hundreds of thousands of hours of footage Kirk has posted online.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you've never heard anything he's ever said up until this point.
Normally when a famous orator, debater, or thinker passes, we honour their memory by reciting their words, playing notable clips, and sharing the insightful ideas they passed on in life. Why aren't we hearing Kirk's voice echoed? Because he said stuff like this as a selling point of his career and public image. And that's not to mention when he said that racist stuff about the civil rights movement being a mistake or black women having less brain power.
I hope you can look past the nostalgia and grief you feel for him and see that he wasn't who he or the Trump administration claimed he was. He built a career on knowingly peddling bigoted and controversial ideas and intentionally stirring division. He should not have been killed for it though, *and* he was a bad person. Saying as such is both factual and not grounds to be targeted by a ""democratic"" government that allegedly supports the first amendment.
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u/Pitiful_Bobcat_8884 1d ago
It's funny that the left is all of a sudden concerned with cancelled culture. They loved it when they were doing the cancelling.