This one was different. The assassination of Charlie Kirk last week should crystallise things for you. The right wants to debate and win the argument; the left wants you dead. That’s a dangerous change.
I couldn’t understand why the killing of Charlie Kirk impacted me so much. I never watched any of his stuff online. In fact my consumption of American conservative commentary is limited. I know who they all are but they are doing their thing in a different political, legal and cultural landscape. In fact, often I resent the amount of Americana that makes its way so seamlessly to the UK and Ireland.
But when they start killing people for speaking, that changes you. The Irish media will attempt to delegitimize Charlie Kirk saying he was a provocateur, or he was ‘far – right’, therefore he either had it coming or it doesn’t really matter. It does.
Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck for debating; for talking to other people, often his opponents. It’s as simple and horrific as that. Shot for speaking and addressing a crowd. This is an attack on anyone who values debate and the democratic process.
I wasn’t this shaken when they tried to assassinate President Trump. Presidential assassinations are awful but have happened in the United States. But to murder in cold blood a man involved in politics, a leading light or ‘conservative, charismatic leader’ as BBC Radio 4 described him was shocking. The next ones in line are the voters. Think about that.
And think about just how far gone you would have to be to lie in wait, on a building 130 meters away from your ‘target’, a 31 – year old man in the prime of his life. Just what would take you to that place, how much must the shooter have hated Charlie Kirk to pull that trigger. ‘A perfect’ shot to the neck. Mr Kirk must have been dead before he hit the ground, his death gruesome. Lord have mercy on his soul.
I don’t watch violent films or programmes at all, Saw your Head Off 10 or Stab your Mother to Death 16 or whatever other debasing garbage is out there that passes for “entrainment.” Why would I, when I have the news?
And because so much of this gruesome bloodletting passes for entertainment I wonder, do people really understand what happened. The trauma that single bullet caused will be life long and spread like wildfire.
Charlie Kirk lost his life at 31. His wife Erika Kirk and her two young children are left widowed and without a father. Not only that, but that footage of their father’s last moment will haunt them for the remainder of their lives. They will see it in their sleep. Mr Kirk’s parents must bury their son. It is reported that all were at the event. The students who were in the immediate vicinity must live with this for the rest of their lives. Some say there was cheering, I’m not sure. I do know that a traumatic event like this will be difficult to recover from.
But not for all.
Not only do I find it genuinely terrifying that someone could kill in cold blood a man for the sin of talking, but the reaction online was distressing. I kept away from it at first, but there was no avoiding the reaction from so many young women on the left to the killing of an innocent husband and father. Happiness, joy and celebration.
This confirmed what I have sadly suspected for months; that the young women on the left in the United States at least are beyond doubt the most cruel and callous generation of women to ever walk God’s green earth.
The political divide between young men and women is well known; men are increasingly breaking right, the women left. According to most in the media this is all the men’s fault, how dare they be right wing. I always thought it was the left wing women who were the problem but not really because of their policies.
I’m not talking socialist women, some that want a high tax and spend economy (although that is stupid economics). No, I’m talking about the ones who talk about ‘being kind’ all the time while cancelling their friends in an instant for the wrong view. There is something cold – hearted about them. Something terrifyingly Nurse Ratched about the entire bunch. That’s what they are; surgeons these days but Nurse Ratched to their cold bones.
If you don’t believe me on this, spend a few moments on Twitter and you will get a taste of what these women are like. Not only are they celebrating the cold blooded murder of a 31 year – old man who leaves behind a young widow and two young children, but they are callous enough to post it on social media for all to see.
Where does this terrifying lack of empathy in young women come from? Well the American ones at least were probably the first generation to be raised in totally non-religious households by their feminist mothers who dumped them in daycare too early and for too long. Things haven’t turned out well.
NBC did a poll of Generation Z looking at the sex divide. When asked what was important to the personal definition of success 34 % of men who voted for Trump said having children was and 29% said being married was. Only 6% of women who voted for Harris said being married was important and 6% said having children was important to the personal definition of success. And that pretty much sums it up.
Women who voted Democrat must be the first generation in human history to place basically no importance in getting married and having children. And having seen their reaction to the terrible murder of Charlie Kirk this should come with a sigh of relief. These are not the women you want your son getting married to nor should they be having children.
So conservatives are either going to have to start producing more conversative women or make their peace with the fact that some of their sons are not going to get married and have children. Because my sense of it is that being single would be better than marrying these women who have hearts of stone. Such a marriage would make the lives of many men abject misery.
I can see it already. They use sex as a reward and punishment, they won’t have children or if they do it will be ‘one and done’ and the poor little mite will be dumped in ‘daycare’ before it is one year of age. There will be endless nagging, misery and every single chore must be split down the middle even though this is a stupidly inefficient way to run a home.
What previous generations called acts of kindness and love such as getting birthday presents or parties or simply baking, will be referred to as ‘emotional labour.’ Honestly, if you see one of these young ladies coming through your door, you want to turn her around pronto. Just calling her ‘young lady’ and adding I assume you agree on taking your husband’s surname upon marriage should do the trick. Goodbye and good luck.
I don’t know what the last generation of educators and parents did to produce such an odious generation of women. But something went wrong with the ‘Be Kind’ brigade. Be kind? I’d settle for Don’t Shoot.
Charlie Kirk was one of the good guys. They cheered when they heard he was killed.