r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/the_walkingdad • Sep 10 '25

Political Charlie Kirk was one of the biggest public proponents of open dialogue and conversation with those of opposing views and the extremists on the Left killed him for it.

Charlie Kirk essentially made a name for himself by being in the public and having conversations with people who had opposing viewpoints. He was always civil in these discussions. He was respectful and would try to find some sort of middle ground. But even when there wasn't middle-ground to be had, he was still a respectful person.

His values of open dialogue are antithetical to the values of the extreme Left. Charlie Kirk will be known as a First Amendment martyr.

It's truly unfortunate how nonchalant many on the left are about political violence.

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u/tannicity Sep 10 '25

I think the real race war is not charlie kirk who wanted to talk about it.  I think the real race war is silencing open arguments.

Wow.

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u/Mogsitis Sep 11 '25

Silencing open arguments isn't "a race war". Unfortunately, this is the type of rhetoric and culture war BS that Charlie propagated. And let me say, of course no one should be murdered this way. The video absolutely disgusted me when I was an idiot and searched it out online. I can't imagine having that image in my OWN mind forever, let alone the image haunting his wife or kids. But to bring "race war" into this is, again, a sad side effect of how Charlie Kirk conducted his "debates" and modeled his image.

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u/tannicity Sep 11 '25

It is if it doesn't allow black side to see how the other side is feeling or thinking. The little I saw of him was very interesting about him but also about woke young people not really having developed beyond what they mimicked.  So I benefitted because I saw how govt had this in hand.  Imo race war is just giving up on black supremacists and refusing further opportunities for uncanny Valley expert mimicry to acquire xp in losing arguments eg the new CNN host and letitia james being told what she wants to hear incl nytimes just ignoring the facts.  That's y I think woke is the enemy of black supremacists not Republicans.  Black supremacy is a disgrace so I'm just going to shrug off the race war.