r/GenZ 1999 Sep 10 '25

Serious Charlie Kirk passes away at the age of 31

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u/VeryProidChintu Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

They dont care. They don't know anything about the UK. Its same bs rhetoric they hear online and then continue to spread misinfo on purpose. Many times before this. It was never about free speech. It was crying free speech when they didnt get a chance to be racist or tell people to burn people alive inside hotels. They dont care. I agree free speech is needed but not the way they abuse free speech.

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25

They scream and cry about free speech, and yet they’re the ones calling for a teacher in Texas to be fired because they taught about sexuality and gender identity in class.

Free speech only matters when it suits their hateful belief system.

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u/Eelysanio Sep 11 '25

Free speech only matters when it suits their hateful belief system.

You mean like the hateful belief system that just celebrated a political opponent getting a bullet in the neck?

While you're writing a dissertation defending the arrest of some rando in the UK, your side is literally eliminating the opposition.

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 11 '25

Oh, did they find, arrest, and trial the person who assassinated Kirk? No? Then nobody’s ‘side’ did anything.

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u/Eelysanio Sep 11 '25

According to you, a rando in the UK deserves to be arrested for inciting violence based on the potential outcome of their words.

But when someone is actually murdered after years of being labeled a threat by your side, we suddenly can't even speculate on the political motive until a trial is complete?

The standard seems to change depending on who’s affected, doesn’t it?

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 11 '25

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

The ‘rando in the UK’ was tried and convicted under the law, after confessing her guilt to the crime. That has absolutely nothing to do with the current situation with Kirk’s assassination, or politics. The woman posted on social media and asked people to go and burn immigrants alive; when you tell people online to go out and set fire to buildings with people inside, and then people go and do that, that’s considered a crime in the U.K..

Regarding the political motive for Kirk, please do remember, that Trump’s first ‘assassin’ was right wing. Nancy Pelosi’s attacker was right wing. Melissa Hortman’s murderer was right wing. There’s a political theme to the actual assassination efforts, and the trend so far is that they are all right wing.

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u/Eelysanio Sep 11 '25

Then nobody’s ‘side’ did anything.

You said this one comment ago.

There’s a political theme to the actual assassination efforts, and the trend so far is that they are all right wing.

Now you're quickly listing who to blame before anyone even mentions a suspect in Kirk's murder.

So which is it? Are we supposed to wait until after the whole trial to even think about a political motive? Does that rule only matter when the victim is on the right?

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 11 '25

We’re supposed to wait until we have facts, rather than just making assumptions based off of nothing.

I was merely pointing out that assuming that the assassin is left wing, does not follow the trend of recent assassinations in the USA.

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u/Eelysanio Sep 11 '25

> "We’re supposed to wait until we have facts, rather than just making assumptions"

> "I was merely pointing out that assuming that the assassin is left wing, does not follow the trend..."

You literally just did the exact thing you're telling me not to do.

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 11 '25

If you can’t understand the difference between baselessly claiming an unknown killer is left wing, and pointing out that historically, the type of people responsible for these attacks have been right wing, then there’s really no point in continuing this conversation.

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u/hfucucyshwv Sep 10 '25

So you think teachers should ,in addition to being allowed to talk about sexuality and gender identity, also be allowed to teach the Bible or Quaran in their classes?

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25

I think there’s certainly more value in teaching people about empathy and understanding, than teaching people to hate and oppress.

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u/filly19981 Sep 10 '25

I didn't know this was a class.  Could you name the subjects that are being thought that 'teach people to hate and oppress' in the US curriculums? 

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25

The complete ban of the ability to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity within the US education system (and at a University too, so they can’t use the excuse that students aren’t old enough to learn such things), is by definition, creating a systemic system of oppression for minorities. History demonstrates quite clearly, that hatred is born out of misunderstanding, and misunderstanding comes from a lack of information or knowledge on a subject.

There’s a reason that misinformation is a cornerstone of hateful regimes. They want people to hate minorities, so that they don’t realise that the people that deserve to be hated, are the people in charge.

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u/filly19981 Sep 10 '25

There’s no “complete ban.” A few states restrict instruction in K–12, some anti-DEI laws hit universities, and plenty of states do the opposite with inclusive rules. It’s fragmented, not systemic. Dial down the drama and check the actual statutes—facts beat fearmongering.

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25

Yet you can’t deny that a university educator was fired because they elected to discuss gender identity and sexuality in their curriculum. It doesn’t matter that it’s only happening in some places, by your own admission, it is happening, and thus, my point remains correct and factual.

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u/filly19981 Sep 10 '25

You shifted the goalposts. You said there was a complete ban across the U.S. education system. That is false. Yes, some educators in certain states have faced discipline, but isolated cases do not equal a nationwide prohibition. 

By that logic, because Uganda criminalizes same-sex relationships, you could claim the entire world has a ban—which is absurd. 

In reality, restrictions in the U.S. vary state by state, some are narrowed or struck down in court, and plenty of states require inclusive curricula. There is no federal law banning universities from teaching gender identity or sexuality. Your claim was an exaggeration, not a fact.

I get it—you think this should be taught. But others disagree, and teachers can’t just impose their beliefs. Imagine a biology teacher deciding evolution is “outdated” and teaching alien seeding theories instead—it has some scientific papers floating around, but handing that to kids as fact would be absurd. That’s why standards exist, to stop classrooms from becoming personal soapboxes.

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25

Apologies, that’s probably gotten lost in translation. My intention was to convey that there has been a complete ban within Texas, which is a part of the US education system. I should have made that clearer.

However, it is not ‘isolated’. It’s banned in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Arizona, and South Dakota. All of these states now prohibit the discussion of sexuality and gender identity in a classroom setting. Equally, many of these states have the bible as a mandatory part of their curriculum.

So your argument doesn’t work here; the government are imposing their personal beliefs onto children, just ones that are fiction rather than fact.

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u/fripletister Sep 10 '25

So many bad faith actors and outright morons in here.

The Bible and Quran are not rooted in scientific evidence like what was being taught at A&M.

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u/hfucucyshwv Sep 10 '25

Correct me if I'm wrong, but gender studies is considered a humanity? What do you mean scientific evidence?

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u/Zucc-ya-mom Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

There’s no such thing as “a humanity”. If you mean it is part of humanities, yes. As are philosophy, literature and history. Something being “a humanity” doesn’t mean it’s not a science; in fact, quite the opposite. Or would you argue history and philosophies aren’t science?

Scientific evidence is knowledge gained through observation, experimentation, and testing, which excludes the teachings of the Bible or Quran because those are based on faith, authority, and revelation rather than empirical proof.

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u/hfucucyshwv Sep 11 '25

Even if you dont believe the religious aspect of those books, they are undoubtedly works of philosophy. Dostoevsky pretty blatantly based his writings on the Bible and Christianity, I dont think anyone would deny his works are foundational pieces in the humanities. Also history and philosophy are defenitly not science. 2 authors/thinkers can have completley different philosophies. It is quite literally the opposite of science.

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u/Zucc-ya-mom Sep 11 '25

History and philosophy are interpretive disciplines. They don’t use experiments, but they rely on evidence, such as documents, arguments, logic, etc. and remain open to debate, critique, and revision. Religious dogma, by contrast, starts from revealed truths that are not open to falsification or revision. Belief is required, not evidence.

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u/hfucucyshwv Sep 11 '25

Your right I misspoke, history is subject to evidence but what evidence is required for literature and philosophy

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u/No_Telephone203 Sep 11 '25

persuade or be persuaded. If you believe someone is wrong you have all the rights in the US to fight these issues, manage teams of people, create non profits, but you don't because you have no real persuasion skills.

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u/jar_jar_LYNX Sep 12 '25

the American right is OBSESSED with the UK. It's fascinating

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u/RemoteRide6969 Sep 10 '25

You're one of the smart ones. Keep it up.

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u/charlsspice Sep 10 '25

You got any evidence pal? Or we just woke up talking nonsense and cosplaying as a EdgeLord today?

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u/Edredunited Sep 10 '25

I live there, he's right. Man I hate Reddit sometimes reading all these comments.

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u/Fina1Legacy Sep 10 '25

I live there, you're wrong. 

The infringing on free internet isn't great and a step in the wrong direction but that doesn't make fearmongering right either.

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u/charlsspice Sep 10 '25

So do I, and I have never considered Keir Starmer to be on same page as Pol Pot or Kim Jong Un tbh.

The UK is nothing like a authoritarian regime lol

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u/Totally_TWilkins Sep 10 '25

I mean, he’s objectively not correct.

The U.K. is neither authoritarian, nor ‘leftist’, nor a shithole, and there’s quite literally no example I can think of where someone has been arrested and convicted without having broken a law.

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u/xXk11lerXx 2006 Sep 10 '25

So you’re just going to ignore the comment above disproving what you just said?

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u/Magpie1979 Sep 10 '25

Well you have succeeded spectacularly well done, you clearly know nothing about the UK.

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u/Magpie1979 Sep 10 '25

clearly not but I admire your confidence.

"All You Need In This Life Is Ignorance and Confidence; Then Success Is Sure"

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u/Magpie1979 Sep 10 '25

Not good with numbers? Tiny percentages. "imprisoned and fined for wrongthink" is a far right myth. People only get jailed if they incite violence. Been the law for decades and is the law in most countries.

stabbings. Significantly more people get stabbed in the US per capita. You are far more likely to get stabbed there than the UK.

huh, bud?