The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Chris Hedges: Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 09:21 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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FTA:

Martyrs sacralize violence. They are used to turn the moral order upside down. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities become heroism. Crime becomes justice. Hate becomes virtue ... Murder becomes good. War is the final aesthetic. This is what is coming.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-09-14 09:27 PM

"He's a scumbag." and "not worthy of the national attention he's getting"

-Charlie Kirk on George Floyd.

#2 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-14 09:28 PM

According to a 2024 Wired story, Kirk made the remarks in December 2023 during America Fest, Turning Point's annual conference.

"I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," the story quoted Kirk as saying. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."

In Kirk's view, the story explained, the Civil Rights Act has led to a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy," referring to diversity, equity and inclusion, that has limited free speech.

The story also quoted Kirk as saying that Martin Luther King Jr. was "awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe."

www.factcheck.org

Swell Martyr y'all picked.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-14 09:31 PM

He was a horrible person. Only horrible people are lionizing him.

#4 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-14 09:59 PM

Reichsfhrer Vance takes his new seat as the head propagandist.

bsky.app

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-14 10:06 PM

The dude was a hateful moron who changed nothing. He did not pass any laws. He did not invent anything. He was all recycled air.

#6 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-09-16 11:55 AM

Martyrdom is extremely overrated.

#7 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-09-16 03:50 PM

Turning Point USA was founded by Bill Montgomery, a Covid denier who died of Covid and Charlie Kirk, a gun violence enthusiast who died from gun violence.

Coincidence or fate.

You decide.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-16 03:55 PM

Destroyed by the very things they believed.

Creepy.

Also a warning to bold imposters of the Truth.

Words are air in motion.

Reality isn't Verbal.

Which comes first?

Reality or the Words that attempt to explain it?

Are Lies Real?

Does wishing create the soil that Reality grows in?