Assassination Hate-Fest: Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk to Cheering Crowd. By Jonathon Turley.
We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. …
What is shocking is not the utter depravity and cruelty of Piker, but the ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views. It is part of the conditioning in what I have previously called an “age of rage.”
In the video, Piker leads the crowd in the meme song “We Are Charlie Kirk” at a stop of his “Fear& LIVE” tour, including such lines as “We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name.” His co-hosts and the crowd seem to be laughing with joy. …
Hasan is wearing his now-signature Mao jacket as the young crowd and his co-hosts laugh hysterically. It is the very essence of this movement to desensitize people, particularly young people, to violence and hate. …
It allows people to hate completely and without thought to the humanity of those being hurt. What people will not admit is that they like it.
Rage is addictive, and it is contagious. Just look at the crowd in San Francisco, and you will see the addictive quality of uncut, undiluted hate:
Piker [has] every right to spread hate. It is protected speech just as KKK and neo-Nazi groups are allowed to promulgate their own hateful values. What is exasperating is how hatemongers on the left want to enjoy hate speech while accusing others of hate and intolerance. …
Recently the rhetoric has reached hysterical levels. Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon has compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “modern-day slave catchers” and the government is “literally trying to kill us.” It is a narrative that allows you to speak like a Nazi while claiming to be fighting Nazis. …
Piker is reportedly raking in a fortune as are other hatemongers like Jennifer Welch. They traffic in rage to a nation of rage addicts.
It is a scene that only reaffirms the work of Kirk who sought to expose the hate and intolerance of the left, particularly on our campuses. Kirk infuriated many by challenging them to debate. There is no room for reason in an age of rage. …
Civility, and even humanity, become signs of weakness in these times. They gravitate to figures like Abdul El-Sayed who has campaigned with Piker and promises to “choke out” Republicans and refers to moderates like Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) as ogres to have their heads cut off and put on pikes.
Charlie Kirk, culturally Western, believed that truth is the most important value and would prevail. So, he went around challenging leftists for debates, and talking to leftist crowds. This was the clash of ideas, the way to settle disputes in western civilization.
But the modern left increasingly thinks like the third world, like all the world before the evolution of western civilization. They play the man, not the ball. Third world thinking, of tribalism and might makes right, is taking over our universities (“critical” thinking). So they killed Charlie Kirk.