A message from me to all of the Charlie Kirk whitewashers. Stop being hypocrites.

Can certain people on the so-called left please get off of their soapboxes until all of the facts about Charlie Kirk's assassination come in. I understand your sentiment and agree with the fact that violence is wrong, and political violence is abominable but over the last few days after that awful event, some of y'all have been getting on my damn nerves with your jockeying for position in terms of who can decry Kirk's murder the best.

Yes, murdering someone simply because you don't agree with their opinion is awful, but this need for so many of y'all to jump on your pedestals and decry the alleged motives behind Kirk's murder before we even KNOW the motive is bordering on parody. It's the same as people auditioning for a musical singing the same song, as if their version would somehow make the song sound different and awe-inspiring.

And I have a more pressing problem with some of you seeking to whitewash Charlie Kirk's legacy. When he was alive, a lot of you condemned his words and his actions and the negative effect they had on our political discourse.   Now after his death, you're minimizing his words and actions to so-called differences of opinion.  Why are some of you being hypocrites.

People may not like what I say, but I can honestly say that my opinion of Charlie Kirk hasn't changed an iota.  He was a lying sleazebag demagogue. He was a bully who targeted people who could NOT fight him back. His "debates" were rigged circuses with the dignity and humanity of the groups he demeaned treated like some trophy for whoever's verbal technique was the best.  But he did NOT deserve to be murdered. And I grieve for his wife and children. 

Now see, how hard is that? I can decry his murder, show sympathy for his family and STILL call him out for what he was. Why can't some of you?

And let's be really honest here. Some people's desire to whitewash Charlie Kirk's life's is commensurate to how "delusionally white" and/or "straight-acting" they are. They get to pretend that they can be observers of the entire thing and not involved. Those of us who aren't in those categories can't get away with that. We can't feign sitting on a distant perch and observing. We deal with the effects of not only Kirk's demagoguery, but the demagoguery of those like him. We see it every day and feel it every day and unlike many, we can't pretend it doesn't exist or minimize it as a simple difference of opinion.

Just as Charlie Kirk did not deserve his fate, our lives, dignity, and worth as human beings shouldn't be up for debate or treated like a prize.  And the attacks on our lives, dignity, and worth as human beings shouldn't be minimized as a simple difference of opinion for any reason. Ever.