Hier nog een verdiepend stuk van Thomas Zimmer die context geeft rondom Kirk.
De moeite waard om te lezen, enkele quotes:
Over both-side-ism en de bredere context:
Political violence has been on the rise in the United States. I know this won’t make anyone on the Right reconsider their reactions, but let us note that political violence overwhelmingly comes from the Right. Over the past decade, rightwing violence has sharply gone up, and the far right accounts for most of the general increase – a trend that is observable not just in the United States, but also on the international level.
According to the Department of Justice and the FBI, the general rise in hate crimes around 2020, for instance, was almost entirely due to an increase in racist and antisemitic incidents, in attacks on Muslims and other people of non-Christian faiths, in crimes against people who present as gender non-conforming and against trans people. Violent political extremism committed by white nationalist militant groups, specifically, has exploded in recent years. Anyone who comments on the threat of political violence in the United States in the wake of the Kirk murder and doesn’t start there is not actually concerned about political violence.
Een aantal posters mag hier wel even in de spiegel gaan kijken.
Over het sane-washen van Kirk en of dit verstandig is:
I believe, however, that sanitizing Charlie Kirk’s politics and actions is the wrong way to go about this. We should trust ourselves and those we address to hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create. The message should not be that political violence is bad and requires a strong response because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible. Pluralistic democracy depends on people feeling safe enough in the public square to actively express themselves and participate in the political process. If they don’t, because the public square is dominated by intimidation and violent threat, democracy must perish.
Het gaat dus niet alleen om de acties van Kirk maar de bredere context waarin dit plaatsvindt en wat er nodig is voor een gezonde democratie om te functioneren.
Over het toekomstperspectief:
The Trumpists want the escalation. They are convinced it is the only path to defeating the “enemy within” and imposing their vision of “real America” on a society they know does not want to comply. That is one major goal of the militarization of American cities: Create situations that are likely to result in violent escalation sooner or later. This is the context in which Charlie Kirk was murdered. The Trumpists believe they may have found their Reichstag fire moment. And if it is not this one, then how long until something else happens that might serve as pretext? When those who are controlling the levers of state power are itching for violence, how long until mass violence follows?
Dit soort ontwikkelingen wordt maar al te graag aangegrepen / bewust aangewakkerd om olie op het vuur te gooien in de shitshow die de VS is. De shitshow is een bewust gebruikt instrument in het afglijden van de VS.