I have one less leftist to follow on You Tube. I wondered if he would use his dislike of Charlie Kirk's political views -- such as gun owner rights -- to imply that Kirk 'deserved it.' He held back -- but just barely -- from saying that. But I am unsubscribing from his channel.
On another channel I heard another leftist give a gracious and eloquent sermon against political violence. I agreed with every word he said.
But why didn't he follow the logic of his very correct thoughts? American foreign policy is about nothing other than violence. We have a hypocritical president who is normalizing assassinating diplomats while pretending to negotiate with them. He murders people in international waters, without due process. He decapitates the leadership of other countries.
How many innocent people have died since 9/11 because of American foreign policy? It is certainly a couple million. What about the dead during the Viet Nam War?
War is political. All those people died because their political views disagreed with American presidents and their advisers, neo-cons, and neo-liberal interventionists. So the philosophical meaning of Charlie Kirk's death is not that "political violence is wrong," no matter how true that is.
The meaning is that 'the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic.'
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