Saturday, September 20, 2025

Charlie Kirk's Rules of Free Speech

Republicans want to prosecute the left for incendiary words that could lead to violence. They should read Kirk's own incendiary words first.

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Karl: "You've said that you restored free speech in America. Is that free speech, including for people who are harshly critical of you, for your political opponents, for people who say things you don't like?" Trump: "You're not a wonderful person. Frankly, you're a terrible reporter."

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-- The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) Sep 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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1. Blaming a murder victim for his own death.
2. Fomenting ethnic, racial, or religious animosity.
3. Declaring a group of Americans incompatible with civilization.
4. Directing sectarian panic at specific politicians.
5. Comparing your opponents to Nazis.
6. Advocating violence.
7. Invoking a religious mandate to execute people.
8. Proposing to liberate an assailant.
9. Organizing a rally that led to a violent attack.

"In the coming weeks," Saletan observes, "officials who have eulogized Kirk as an exemplar of free speech and constructive debate"Trump, Vance, Bondi, Miller, and others"plan to roll out a program to hobble, intimidate, and silence the administration's critics. In the name of thwarting violence, they'll try to impose a regime of investigations, prosecutions, tax penalties, and other harassment."

He offers some good advice:

"Each time they blur the line between speech and violence, calling somebody's words "incitement" or "terrorism," ask yourself: Did they call it that when Charlie Kirk did it? If not, fight them like ----. Nonviolently, of course."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 05:00 AM

For example, see "Charlie Kirk in his own words: prowling Blacks' and the great replacement strategy" at www.theguardian.com

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 05:41 AM

Interesting Jonathan Cook essay:

"Charlie Kirk and His Killer Were Sapwned by the Same Dark Soul of US Politics:
A declining US superpower needs to rationalise its failures " glaring, monstrous crimes abroad, economic collapse at home " as a war against homegrown terrorists"
jonathancook.substack.com

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-19 08:29 AM

Truth is...Ol' Charlie constantly sowed the wind as if he were immune to any actual reaping it might engender. Shame he met his demise as the object of a fleshed out Groyper-adjacent Black Pill acceleratorist's --- post. The musings etched on the casings of the unspent shells tell the tale. I do know, though...Nick Fuentes has probably doubled his security protocol by now.

#4 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-09-20 12:58 PM

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