Remembering Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk, a conservative commentator, was murdered yesterday
For people who have been under a rock for the last 24 hours, one Charlie Kirk was murdered yesterday. We have not caught the killer (yet!) nor know their motives right now, but I do know that there are people on the left who are either covertly or overtly celebrating his death.
We have lost basic decency and empathy in our culture. I think a lot of it has to do with the online culture. I remember, in the early days of online culture, there were these people I knew in real life, and they were perfectly polite and decent people when we interacted in the real world, but once they got behind a computer screen, they lost all civility and would be very confrontational and rude.
This online rudeness wasn’t considered, at the time, “real” behavior, but now with multiple generations of people who see online interactions as normal, the rudeness online is being reflected in the real world, one example being the “Generation Z Stare”.
Someone has now been killed in cold blood, and people are celebrating his death. This online rudeness is becoming deadly. I hope people can learn respect, decency, and empathy for others sooner rather than later, before we descend in to another civil war.
9/11 unified us as a nation. Online culture is dividing us in very ugly ways. I yearn for the unity we had post-9/11 again.
Picture attribution
The picture of Charlie Kirk was taken by Gage Skidmore, is available under a CC 4.0 License, and it has been altered for this blog.
The picture of the burning twin towers on 9/11 was taken by Michael Foran, and is available under a CC 2.0 License, and has been altered for this blog.