NOW THAT THE Republican-fascist, even Trumpist background of the reportedly cis-gender white Mormon who killed the fascist hate monger, Charlie Kirk is established, I don't expect that the use of it to bash Trans People, Democrats, etc. will subside, though I think that Trump has gotten all the use from it that he wants so I don't expect him to spend a lot of time on it. From what I've heard the Republican-fascists are accusing his teachers in an electrician-apprentice program IN FUCKING UTAH! with wokening the kid. That's the thing about Republican-fascists and the FOX Lies led media, they don't care how outlandish what they say about anything is. If there is a group in my state which I would bet would rank as among the most unwoke, it would be those in that line of work. I've never much trusted anyone in the building trades to be woke.
I asked yesterday if it had happened today, if it would be demanded of Jews that they pretended to be unhappy at the murder of the American Nazi Party founder George Rockwell and, if they expressed understandable approval that they'd be getting fired from their jobs or condemned and the subject of Republican-fascist instigated death threats. AND SOME OF THOSE GETTING FIRED DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT, THEY EXPRESSED NOTHING LIKE APPROVAL. If the same standards being applied to those who aren't especially broken up over the hate monger being murdered by someone who is closer to one of his than one of ours were applied to Jews in regard to someone targeting them then, yes, it would be demanded that they put on the same false-face of mourning that is being pushed by the fascists now. And not only them but pseudo-liberal idiots like David Axelrod and Ezra Klein.
Thinking about the ancient assassination of George Rockwell made me think of his killer, the truly bizarre prominent member of his Nazi Party John Patler who was recruited by Rockwell for his ability to knock out Nazi cartoons and knowledge of the printing process. Looking him up I read that he had named one of his sons after Horst Wessel a member of the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) who was assassinated in 1930. I had been tempted to compare his killing to that of Kirk instead of George Rockwell, as both of them were young, asking if Jews should have mourned his assassination but that would have been inapt. In 1930 the Nazis were nine years from explicitly announcing their intention to murder all the Jews in Europe whereas Charlie Kirk was openly calling for the murder of gay men, advocating their lynching by stoning well before he was killed.
You, if you are a straight person, may think that was a mere rhetorical flourish by an attention seeking fascist on the make, that it may have been a bit over the top but as a gay man who was the subject of violent attacks by straight male punks on two occasions and was in threatening situations on too many to have kept track of, that's not just hot air coming from a hate monger IT WAS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO MURDER MY PEOPLE AND ME MADE FOR CHARLIE KIRK'S PROFIT. Hate was his stock-in-trade.
If there is one thing we know in the wake of his assassination, HIS FANS ARE READY AND WILLING TO ATTACK LGBTQ+ PEOPLE. REPUBLICAN-FASCIST MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE TRUMP II REGIME TARGETED US FOR ATTACK BEFORE ANYONE KNEW WHO KILLED HIM. If the guy who killed him turns out to be a fully trained and active member of Utah gun culture - brought into that by his straight, white, Republican, Trump voting parents - someone who is reportedly having seemed like a fairly normal straight-white-conservative-boy, it's not unlikely that the many, many far less stable people sharing that same description are fully capable of murdering us. I get trolled by those who celebrated the mass killing at the Pulse nightclub who targeted LGBTQ+ People in large numbers, I don't remember anyone telling Turning Point fascists that they were required to pretend they cared about that.
The Nazis made the fullest use of Hoest Wessel - a violent thug who got what he deserved and I wouldn't have faulted any Jews or others who were the target of SA violence who celebrated his murder. It is certain that our equivalent, the Republican-fascist right will do the same with Kirk. It's not my style or in line with my sense of morality to celebrate anyone's murder or assassination - though there are plenty of those and even more natural deaths I think are hardly misfortunes for the world. I don't approve of assassination or murder or even non-violent attacks. Having been the victim of those and knowing what it's like to wonder if your life is at stake, I don't do that. I would bet that Charlie Kirk had never experienced that as he blithely advocated what would be, in effect, the lynching murder of gay men and others who I stand with as an LGBTQ+ PERSON. I'll bet he'd never have figured he might be the target of a straight-white-Mormon boy whose Republican parents encouraged him learning to become an expert marksman and, so, sniper, I'll bet Kirk fully expected to live out his life as a rich-white-straight-cis gendered-Republican-fascist who had made a fortune out of peddling hate and calling for the deaths of People he never knew and who never did a thing to him. As it turns out, he was wrong about that. For what reason, as of my writing this, we don't know. I would like to know that but I wouldn't trust anything that came out of the FBI or anyone else associated with Republican-fascism, not the Utah police or government, not the Turming Point fascists, not his widow, not anyone of that lot. I'm not sure I'd believe what the killer, himself, said on that count. That's the thing about those who are willing to kill, whether an assassin whose victim is a famous Republican-fascist advocate of lyncing or someone who murders someone whose even more violent death on the street because he thinks they're LGBTQ+ (and there have been straight people attacked on that assumption) - you never know if they're telling the truth about that.
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