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Charlie Kirk and the Value of Empathy
Charlie Kirk’s murder was a brutal, reprehensible, vile act.
It is the kind of despicable disregard for life that all decent human beings should (and largely did) condemn.
From the moment news of Kirk’s shooting first surfaced, I witnessed a massive outpouring of genuine care and concern for him and for his family from both the Right and the Left, even as MAGA extremists rushed to weaponize the moment as an indictment of the supposed carelessness and cruelty of the latter.
Conservatives' performative calls for compassion in the face of Kirk’s assassination were strangely striking, precisely…
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