Charlie Kirk made his positions very clear while he was alive. One was: “I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.” That wasn’t satire. That was strategy. He didn’t misunderstand empathy. He flat-out rejected it. Not because it failed, but because it interfered. Empathy demanded accountability. It disrupted the performance of cruelty. It ruined the punchline when the punchline was someone else’s pain.
Charlie Kirk built a platform on contempt and called it courage. He monetized mockery and called it truth. He weaponized detachment and called it clarity. This wasn’t rebellion. It was auditioning for power. And every time he dismissed empathy as weakness, he revealed exactly what kind of strength he admired.
Empathy wasn’t his failure. It was the firewall he refused to install. And now that he’s gone, we’re left with the wreckage of what happens when that firewall is missing.
I have no fucking empathy for him. I am sorry for the pain his wife and kids are experiencing in the now, but let's be real, here:
My husband's wife died when their kids were 3, 6, 9, and 12. When he told them she'd died, the 3 year old cried for five minutes, then asked to watch some godawful kids show and never again cried about her. Out of sight, out of mind. The 6 year old stopped grieving in less than six months. The nine year old was no longer grieving by the time I joined the family two years later. The 12 year old still grieves on some level, he is 36 now and was very much Mama's boy, so that makes sense. None of the three younger ones really remember her very much. 3 year old (now 27) not at all, 6 year old (now 30) one memory of her spanking him, 9 year old (now 33) a couple of memories of roller skating and talking about Hello Kitty.
So while I'm sorry for the pain Kirk's kids are feeling at the moment, I'm pretty damn sure they won't even remember it later in life. His wife is another story. But if she's much like him, I fucking well have no empathy to spare for her, either.
Maybe that makes me a stone cold bitch. So be it.
Time to put this motherfucker firmly in the past. May his name be forgotten, may his legacy be erased. May all memory of him and all vestiges of him disappear from this planet. Leave him in the sewer treatment facility of history, where he belongs.
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