In light of the news, I’d like to share my thoughts on Charlie Kirk. I know this has nothing to do with roleplaying, but I suspect I’ll be sharing these thoughts elsewhere, so I figured it would be useful to have them in one place that I can link to.
If public speech was karate, Charlie Kirk was a yellow belt. To show off his skill, he would film himself surprise attacking random college kids. A yellow belt isn’t at all impressive, but it doesn’t have to be when the typical random student doesn’t know any karate at all. Besides, even if the student was an “opponent” of equal rank, they still wouldn’t be prepared for the surprise. There’s always the risk that the student in question is a blue belt with good reflexes, but those videos were never going to get uploaded.
In other words, his entire Prove Me Wrong gimmick was based on him being a dishonest bully. His Far-Right politics reflected that attitude.
I do not celebrate death. I am appalled by those who take glee in murder. I like to say that I have, at minimum, one tear for every person who dies. However, that doesn’t mea that I need to have a second tear for a Fascist propagandist like Charlie Kirk.