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Don't Ask Me to Mourn My Oppressors. Don't! [1]
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Date: 2025-09-11
It’s not evil to detest evil men. In fact, the immoral stance is to support the “banality of evil” — to treat it as ordinary, to look the other way, to let it fester until it spawns more evil. I am not saying I believe political violence is the answer. Full stop. I can believe violence is wrong and still not care that an evil man died.
If I had been there, and saw someone trying to take a shot, I would have tried to stop them. But I am not shedding a tear now that this man is dead. Make no mistake: he was evil.
No one is fucking celebrating throw that strawman away please
Men like Charlie Kirk are why I’m afraid to leave my house. They’re why I had to have “the talk” with my autistic son — telling him that even though he’s mixed and light-skinned, his hair might be “too nappy” for some people to accept, and some people might hate or harm him for that. Men like him are why I worry my college-age daughter could be raped on campus and forced to carry her rapist’s child — he literally said he’d allow his own ten-year-old daughter to carry a rape baby. HIS OWN DAUGHTER.
Men like him are why people will assume I’m a DEI hire even though I’ve worked since I was 14—legally emancipated—to build a better life.
"Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot." -Charlie Kirk
Men like him are why my father had to take his daughters to the back of the movie theater to see a film in Arkansas — not in the 1960s, but in the 1980s. The film was the first Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Men like him would have supported the murderers of Emmett Till; I know he considered Martin Luther King an evil man. Men like him are why I want to leave my own country — because my dark skin is a target every time I step out my door.
The children shot in Colorado yesterday were victims of the same poison these men spread. It is the height of immorality to tell oppressed people to love their oppressors. That demand is beyond evil.
I can abhor violence and still not mourn this man — who made life harder for me and mine. Don’t you dare tell me to cry for him.
Don’t you dare.
P.S. No one is celebrating; they just aren't mourning him, no more than we would mourn a stranger we read about in a newspaper. Stop trying to “emotion-shame” people.
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