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Those who applaud murder, invite murder.
That’s the reality of the wave of online rejoicing in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It really isn’t about celebrating the last political murder, it’s about causing the next political murder.
When untold thousands of people on social media say that Charlie Kirk had it coming, that he was deserving of death and that he deserves to “rest in piss,” they are affirming and legitimizing his murder and the actions of the man who committed it.
They are saying that when Charlie Kirk’s killer climbed up on the Losee Building, with his grandfather’s Mauser in his hand, and as he lay sprawled on the roof squinting through the scope at a father of two 175 yards away, he was doing a justified and praiseworthy thing. As the finger curled and the rifle kicked and the blood spurted, each one of the progressive posters celebrated that moment and the man who made it happen.
They are praising a political assassin.
And that can only lead to more political assassins.
If what Charlie Kirk espoused is labeled racism and sexism and homophobia, and those deeds are declared worthy of death, then similar views held by others can be similarly labeled and are similarly – in the justice of the progressive inquisition – worthy of death.
If one supporter of Donald Trump deserves to die because of that support, what of the other 77 million people who voted for Donald Trump? If one random self-appointed executioner can be cheered across the internet, then how long before the next self-appointed executioner decides to join the revolution?
And how is it that, by far, the largest number of people celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk are school teachers and college professors? That raises not just questions about those professions and the process that prepares them, but their respected role in society adds legitimacy and credibility to their judgement that slaying this man was a social good.
Even more incomprehensible is the fact that these online posters are applauding a school shooter, an active shooter on a college campus, an act of despicable violence and violation apparently absolved and sanctified by the fact it agrees with the political philosophy of the progressive movement.
It’s almost as if these celebrators of this political assassination are purposely prompting the gunmen of the revolution to go out and find new targets and commit new atrocities. Having failed at the ballot box last year, they seem to be resorting to blood in the streets this year.
When a cold-blooded murderer etches “Hey, fascist. Catch!” on a .30-06 round, and the Democratic Party and its rabble rousers continue to call Republicans fascists, isn’t that political targeting? If Democrats and socialists shout that Republicans are killing democracy and destroying our country and that our freedom will be gone within months, are they not demanding exactly the sort of violence that was unleashed in Utah?
The very word “fascist” was last accurately applied to the German and Italian enemies we fought and killed in the Second World War. To make the offhand reference for your political opponents the word used to describe people you fought in an actual war is to suggest that your political opponents are to be hated and killed.
And I don’t think that’s an accident.
I think blood is what they want.
Certainly, some of the online celebrators of Charlie Kirk’s murder have been TikTok dullards, unstable people shouting into their phones, but the core has been educated professionals, the elites of their communities, people who understand that that which you praise becomes more common.
People who must know that legitimizing political murder will unavoidably lead to more political murder.
In the progression of online hate, you cancel and then you dox and then you march over the body of a murdered man in a social-media victory parade. That’s what these people have done.
They have done more than incite to riot, they have incited to homicide.
And sometime soon, from some roofline unobserved, or behind a tree or from a passing car, the next flurry of inscribed bullets will fly. The next American will fall for speaking his mind. The next step toward communist chaos will be taken. The revolution will claim another victim.
And the online cheerleaders will be to blame.
Because those who applaud murder, invite murder.