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darkknight109 posted...

Then I think you're misreading what I'm saying.

Is there a double standard about Kirk's death? Yes. Republicans are A-OK with mocking the deaths of people they don't like, but immediately reach for their fainting couches the second someone dares turn the spotlight on one of their own. I'm against that, as are you.

Okay, good.

The difference is that I'm advocating a different solution. My view is that the double standard should be eliminating by enforcing that mocking anyone's murder should be a fireable offence. Your view appears to be that the double standard should be eliminating by allowing people to mock murder victims.

and this is where you lose me a bit with the strawman here.

No, it is not a blanket "allow people to mock murder victims here." What's happening is the weaponization of state power to attack and silence critics in a double standard that cannot be extricated from the situation. When this happens, trying to bring it to "it shouldn't be okay for ANYONE!" comes off as tone deaf and attempting to establish a false equivalence

I don't think that's a good road to go down.

Again, is the problem here that left wingers should be allowed to mock murder victims and celebrate their killings without consequence? Or is the problem that right wingers in influential positions do so and get away with it?

Again, this is not "left wingers should have carte blanche to celebrate deaths." This is, again, a vulnerable minority being targeted for expressing joy over the death of a man who actively attempted to foment violence against her and wished her eradicated.

Me, I think the second one is the problem. If you do too, then why are you advocating for more of it?

Never said it was and I'm not even sure which part of my post you're objecting to with that.

Charlie Kirk: We need to genocide transgenders
Transgender people: Hah, Charlie Kirk got got!

You see how these two are not morally equivalent, right? It'd be a little different if they were mocking some random conservative family who got murdered in a shooting. This is a case where Kirk's rhetoric and actions have caused people to be a TOUCH celebratory because he actively wished for violence against them. This is equivalent to tone policing a Jewish person for cheering at the death of George Lincoln Rockwell.

Meanwhile, MAGA is creating a massive database to punish anyone who so much says "Charlie Kirk was not a saint," so miss me with this "it should not be acceptable to celebrate ANYONE dying."