I called my Substack thingamajig “Okay With This.”
So much of the coverage this week has been related to the Charlie Kirk assassination. I really didn’t know much about him, honestly. It’s pretty clear that he was one of the inspirations for one of the South Park references earlier in the season with Cartman imploring the other kids to debate him.
Well, in modern Western societies, there are cameras everywhere. Campus security cameras showed someone sketchy-looking roaming around the part of the campus where the shot had probably come from.
He managed to slip off into woods that neighbored campus, discard the rifle he’d used, and slip off into the ether.
The photos were released.
Someone in his family recognized him.
And his retired cop dad detained him until he could be turned in.
But aren’t all cops bastards?
i don’t know what to make of this binarization of everything. It’s so difficult to explain to people that I’ve never voted for President Trump. My reasons for choosing not to do so are incredibly complex. I could explain them, but you’d have to spend some time speaking to me. Same goes as to the reasons I didn’t vote for Officer Harris.
Charlie Kirk seemed to be trying to go beyond the binary simplification, but, clearly, that really irked some people.
Obviously, my typical reaction to these sorts of conflicts is to retreat. And I’ve kind of done that on this, but I do keep notes in my head. If you’ve been offensive enough to me to land on that list, understand that you’re going to have to do a lot to convince me to ever interact with you again.
Sorry, not sorry.
But you can say nothing, and you can leave.