This year has had a lot of punching down. We have regressed as a nation and lost irreplaceable elements of our government. We are sliding into fascism. This has not been a good year.
To have someone, anyone, remotely responsible die under such perfectly ironic circumstances was cathartic. Having the (alleged) shooter be a “Groyper” from the far right was cathartic. Seeing right wing politicians doing 180s after having declared civil war was cathartic (also terrifying).
However, it is STILL toxic to be continually gleeful about this guy dying a ironic death. Not because of online moderation or a “appropriate discourse” or respect for the dead, but from a human (i.e. me and you the reader) standpoint.
Celebration of his death. Celebration of the resulting trauma to the individuals in the crowd of mostly college students. Trying to get kicks from pointing out yet another ironic detail from the killing. Finding ironic quotes from his past. It not healthy nor does it shape you (or me) into a well balanced human being. It makes you (and me) a terminally online nihilistic asshole. It makes Lemmy a darker place. It makes snuff films slighty more palettable.
Rest in piss, Kirk. There was much to hate about you. I had my laughs. I am done playing with your corpse. I’m going to touch grass.
And just how is not celebrating it going to help? Will having the moral high ground make you feel better when you’re in the concentration camp?
Celebrating or not will have no impact on the possibility of camps. Its not even about moral high ground or national politics. I’m talking about the mental wellbeing of people whose bright spot of the month is Kirk dying violently to a neo-nazi.
It makes them feel like they’re somehow above it all. It is the moral high ground for them. They live in a world where this one event is traumatic, but the continued suffering of those being directly oppressed by people like Kirk somehow isn’t. This idea of “this isn’t who we are” is turning a blind eye to the continued suffering of people that aren’t them. It’s optics above everything else though. No one is asking what their opinion on all of this is. It takes nothing to just not speak.
Check my recent comments. I was having fun with it along with everyone else. This is also Lemmy. The political range is from leftist to far leftist.
Literally check the sub this is in.