I Cannot Mourn Charlie Kirk
Written: 23 September, 2025 Last Edited: N/A
A man was assassinated in front of a live audience, and I cannot gather the will to mourn this man. Two children lost their father, a wife lost her husband, two parents lost their kid, the hundreds in the audience are traumatized, an entire nation is discussing the political ramification of his death. And I cannot shed a single tear.
I suppose I care about the kids. Insofar as I can care about people I don't know, I do feel bad that their father was murdered. They didn't choose to have Charlie as their father, and the oldest still a very young kid. They no doubt went through the worst day of their lives on September 10th.
And yet I cannot mourn Charlie Kirk.
This is beyond me not caring about a guy I don't know. Although I didn't want him dead, I can't deny that it's a good thing he's no longer talking. This man wanted people like me dead. I'm not trans⁰, but I'll die fighting for their rights to life (trans people are in the LBGTQ+ acronym for a reason). I can see through the clean cut, well spoken, "polite," and mild-mannered presentation he gave. His rhetoric led this country to the way it is today¹.
I cannot find it in me to mourn someone that wanted me dead.
I could go on for a while, but this one has been in the drafts since the 14th. This is actually my third attempt at writing this, as the first two were too full of rage to
Footnotes
- ⁰ Gender's complicated and I'm more-or-less comfortable with the body I have and the roll it offers me in society. My gender identity will have to wait for another log.
- ¹ It should be noted that there is A LOT more that Kirk has said about other groups. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure those out.
▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚ ▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚▚