Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him”…
I admittedly don’t know much about him, but it was pretty clear to me from the few clips and misc news articles I’d seen that Charlie Kirk wasn’t interested in discourse and his whole schtick was that it was a debate/discourse facade with the intention of pushing his ideology to college kids and cutting up the debate clips to spread online. He was never interested in intellectual conversation, just indoctrination.
Those huge paychecks he received as donations to his organization were not so he could go have fun debating liberal college kids, they were funding pushing conservative ideologies on them. The fact that so many people still don’t see this for what it was is baffling.
I admittedly don’t know much about him, but it was pretty clear to me from the few clips and misc news articles I’d seen that Charlie Kirk wasn’t interested in discourse and his whole schtick was that it was a debate/discourse facade with the intention of pushing his ideology to college kids and cutting up the debate clips to spread online. He was never interested in intellectual conversation, just indoctrination.
Those huge paychecks he received as donations to his organization were not so he could go have fun debating liberal college kids, they were funding pushing conservative ideologies on them. The fact that so many people still don’t see this for what it was is baffling.