Mary C. Findley

Oh gosh, this I cannot defend at all. I don’t even know where to start. George Floyd’s death was exploited and laundered through a reality distortion field to usher in a wholesale cultural revolution. Let’s start with who he was: he led a life of criminality and delinquency, and he was an avid drug abuser. His death happened amid a context stoked by our media and universities of America being a cauldron of white supremacy and racially-motivated police brutality against blacks specifically. This premise was false, and the canonization of Floyd under this false premise was a contemptuous ruse. You know very well just how much damage was sustained and lives lost as a result of BLM. And the liberties taken to usher in DEI programs and other equity-promoting schemes and enact a cancel culture that punished anyone who failed to pay sufficient fealty to views in line with critical race theory, have all now backfired. Charlie Kirk’s canonization is not based on lies. He lived an honorable, moral life. In fact, the constant smears he endured were based on lies about him. Extreme and hateful views (e.g about him wanting to stone gays) were imputed upon him and parroted by influential left-leaning journalists and commentators. Thankfully, Charlie left copious amounts of source material and people have been going directly to these sources. They’ve come to realize that what they were told didn’t match with who he was which is what they could see with their own eyes. The political environment surrounding Charlie’s death wasn’t a lie either, unlike George Floyd’s. There *is* a trend of escalating violence - and in particular political violence. Many political targets have faced assassination attempts, some successful (Melissa Hortman) and some, by the grace of God, unsuccessful (Trump, Kavanaugh, etc). ICE agents have been shot at, and Tesla owners and dealerships dealt with violent attacks. Kirk’s death is an accurate reflection of this reality and not a cynical perversion and abuse of the truth which is what happened in George Floyd’s case. So it is beyond legitimate for the authorities to respond to his assassination before things spiral further. It is an insult to all that is good in this world to make this comparison on an individual level, and on the cultural level.