Stockholm, Sweden, September 19 (IPS) – On September 11, Charlie Weimers, a Swedish member of the European Parliament and active within the Group European Conservatives and Reformersstood up during a parliamentary session and asked for a minute of silence in honor of the memory of Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed the day before during a political meeting on the Utah Valley University in the US
- “Mrs. President, dear colleagues, the murder of political activist Charlie Kirk, a husband, loving father and patriot has shocked the world. We must strongly condemn the political violence and rhetoric. You want to make violence. If you want to honor in reflection and prayer in honor of his honor, and I give the rest of my time for a moment of silence.”
Charlie Weimers started his political career as a member of the Swedish Chrisitan Democrat PartyBut later switched to the Sweden DemocratsA nationalist, right-wing populist party, who, despite efforts to coordinate it, finds his roots in Neo-Nazi edge organizations. It is now the second largest political party of Sweden with more than 20 percent of the electorate behind it.
There is nothing wrong with condemning political violence of murder and defending freedom of expression, but this cannot hinder us from investigating who is sacred as a victim of radical aggression. Charlie Kirk was 33 years old when he was murdered and left a woman and two small children behind. He had admitted that when he started in 2012 Turning Point USAWho would eventually become a rich and powerful organization, he had “no money, no connections and no idea of what I did.” At that time, Kirk had stopped with the university and was rejected by The American West Point Military Academy. Nevertheless, he had rhetorical gifts for combating progressive ideas, sensitive to cultural tensions and endowed with a predisposition to making provocative statements that resonated with frustrated public from the university, who followed and corresponded to his web posts. Kirk’s frequent university rallies eventually attracted tens of thousands of young voters, as well as the attention and financial support of conservative leaders. President Trump was not wrong when he declared it:
- The large and even legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. Nobody understood or had the heart of youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.
After his death, Kirk was praised for the appearance on campuses where he spoke to everyone who would approach him. Conservative journalists have explained him as one of the most effective practitioners of the era of conviction. Kirk’s message was easily embraced by young people who accepted his opinion that Democrats had spent hundreds of billions of dollars on illegal immigrants and foreign nations, while the young “lost generation” of the US had to squeeze their pennies, but could not have a house, never get married and even work to work. However, he also gave them hope and told these unfortunate young people that they did not have to stay poor and accept that they are worse off than their parents. They just had to prevent corrupt political leaders who lying against them only to take advantage of their voices. Kirk assured his young public that it is an unmistakable fact that cultural identity disappears, while sexual anarchy, crime and decadence unabated, private property is a thing of the past, and a prevailing “liberal” class controls everything. The press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, was probably right when she said that Kirk had inspired millions of young people “to get involved in politics and to fight for the conservative values of our nation.”
Kirk connected his Turning Point USA Not for bad radical peripheral groups, but for conservative, rich donors and influencers. He preached a “Christian message” that is well adapted to different members of such groups, and explained that Turning Point USA Was committed to “recruiting pastors and other church leaders to be active in local and national political issues.”
Kirk fiercely defended the 2nd amendment of the American Constitution, that is, “the right of people to keep and wear weapons will not be violated”, explains that it was worth killing some arms sterles every year, so that we can retain a second amendment that can retain a second amendment that can retain a second amendment “.
Kirk, however, was not happy with the Civil Rights Act of 1964That “discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national descent in employment, education and public accommodations prohibited.” He stated that the Civil Rights Act was a “big mistake” and stated that if the majority of Americans were asked if they respected the Civil Rights Act The answer would have been a “no”. Add the reservation that “I could be wrong, but I think I’m right.”
Undoubtedly there was a racist ingredient in Kirk’s ideology. For example, he stated that the concept of white privilege was a myth and a “racist lie”. In October 2021 he launched one Exposing critical racism tour For countless campuses and other institutions, to “fight racist theories”, meaning that he meant the spread of a understanding of relationships between social views on race and ethnicity, social and political laws and mass media, all of whom considered propaganda and an uninhabited hair child of liberal democrats. He blamed the dei (diversity, fairness and inclusion) programs for threatening the competitiveness and the US security, and even claimed that when sitting in an airplane and realizing that the pilot was ‘black’, he could not help to think: ‘Hey, I hope he is qualified’.
Like most populist, “patriotic”, European right -wing political parties, not least the Sweden DemocratsAlthough they nowadays try to hide more carefully than before, Kirk endorsed the so -called “great replacement theory”. This way of thinking is assuming that powerful, nasty actors, for some obscure reason, try to replace an upright indigenous, generally white skin population with immigrants of “questionable” origin. Kirk did not even hesitate to state that Democrats supposedly wanted to make the US “less white”.
KIRK also argued that people have no significant effect on global climate change and have joined antivax activists by, among other things, statements, the compulsory requirements for students to get the COVID-19 vaccine “medical apartheid”. Kirk was pronounced when it came to claiming that Trump’s loss in the 2022 presidential election was due to fraud, supported the “Stop the Steel” movement and denied that the violent attacks on the Capitool were an uprising.
Opposing political violence and supporting freedom of expression does not mean that you have to saint a victim like Charlie Kirik, who was after all a racist and a bred agitator against disadvantaged groups, as well as he warned scientists who warned against climate change and vaccine dismantling. It is not defensible that such a voice, no matter how despicable it is, is silent by violence and murder. However, we cannot point out the great damage, the type of agitation that Kirk has spent can cause it. As an educator I am often forced to experience how children suffer from racism and intolerance preached and approved by influencers such as Charlie Kirk. Accordingly, it is offensive and dangerous to sanctify such persons and tolerate their biased ideology.
Moreover, let’s not be fooled by deceptive propaganda that trying to convince us that Charlie Kirk’s so -called ‘debates’ were neither aggressive nor lying. They were brutally provocative; Opponents were shouted or belittled. The rhetoric was hateful, contempt was poured out over women, black people, immigrants and Muslims, queer and transgender people. Liberals were branded as enemies, science humiliated. And yes – Charlie Kirk turned to young people, who felt frustrated, marginalized and despised and told them that he wanted to give them hope and a will to combat injustice. But at what price? Based on what truth? Education for violence and contempt for humanity can be protected in the name of free speech, but it should never be accepted and defended. It must be attacked through an unlimited press based on facts, a well-founded science and a non-intaltering for human rights.
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