The only thing worse than people celebrating anyone’s death is celebrating someone who was vile during his life.
I do NOT see many people celebrating his death. I see people posting things this guy said during his life, same as we have always done with MLK, Maya Angelou, JFK or Ghandi. If those quotes are unflattering to his memory, well, that is the way it goes.
Of course Trump is not Hitler, Hitler concentration camps had Jews, Trump concentration camps has Latinos, how dare someone make such comparison?…. the people on the right never manage to disappoint with their gaslighting
As much as I agree with your position that things should not be this way, when I think about the historical record of political violence in America, I would argue that political violence, which resulted in the murder of Mr. Kirk, is baked into the American culture. I would concede that we might be entering a period of peak violence, but the violence has always been there. I pray that the phrase, "this is not who we are" becomes more than aspirational, but unfortunately when I look at the long historical record my conclusion would be this is exactly who we are. Please, stay safe out there.
It is becoming harder and harder to believe the phrase ‘this is not who we are’.
I am not 100% sure this is political violence as much as gamer induced violence. I am just not an expert on analyzing psychopath’s motivation as everyone else on the planet is I guess.
My sister married but it did not work out. She is happily single and I doubt she will ever marry again. She enjoys her nieces and nephews and her two dogs. She lives on a tree farm which she bought in Oregon and raises trees for sale. I never even knew tree farms existed until my sister bought one. Good for her. She is living life as she wants to and appears to be happy. That is great! Elena
Loved this Tara. One of the hardest traits to develop is active listening. I remember back to my grad school classes in counseling psychology developing this skill. When you really listen you can understand a person's point of view and actually can realize that they may be correct on some aspects of the issue being discussed without buying their entire point of view. Everything is not always black and white, in fact most things in life exist in the gray area. But if you are so smug in your beliefs then you run the risk of being what has come to be called closed minded. I don't want to be there.
It is very sad how our American school system has failed us. We are all immigrants and deserve respect,not necessarily agreement with our views. Tara keep up the good work.
I’m not very familiar with Kirk or his speeches, but one of the biggest problems I see today is a loss of morals and basic humanity toward one another. If our leaders, political, spiritual, or otherwise preach hate and division then there will be more hate and division. It’s not a left versus right thing. It’s a humanity thing. I’m not sure what the answers are.
Tara, you being of Italian descent I can relate being a Mexican American and 73 yrs old I grew up with that attitude from the majority class. We were good with our hands, never really accepted in the main stream and the females in our extended family were frowned upon if they weren’t married out of high school. Now with the brutal take down of the Latinos on the American cities lets us know how this society is very prejudiced and spreading hatred bc of our skin color and our Spanish language. I grew up in the Affirmative Action days and now bc of Trump’s attitude towards Latinos and African Americans he has eliminated Diversity Equality and Inclusion. We are at a very worrisome time for many people in society. With Miller and Trump agenda the economy will definitely be affected for the worst. Please keep your messages coming bc journalists convey so much good on the masses!
It’s amazing that even in your comments your admirers feel Charlie got what he deserved. Sick, sad, and totally disgusting. Like his wife Erika said “ you have no idea what you have unleashed into this world”. Charlie Kirk has been Martyred and the Dems will struggle in elections.
Hmmm….what comments are you reading HERE from Tara’s ‘admirers’ that says he got what he deserved? You are projecting what fits the narrative you choose to put forward.
This touches on what Tara mentioned in here article, where some people viewed Kirk as a devoted father and activist, while other will view him as misogynistic and divisive. Now, just as everyone is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, people are also entitled to feel how they want to feel about Kirk’s death, which is determine by how people felt about him as a person and how he interacted with others.
If you are not one that hates, but you hate when people are hateful to others that are not like you or that they disagree with you, does that make you hateful as well?
This was great! Tough for me to watch and listen and that’s what’s great about our country — we all are entitled to our opinions.
The only thing worse than people celebrating anyone’s death is celebrating someone who was vile during his life.
I do NOT see many people celebrating his death. I see people posting things this guy said during his life, same as we have always done with MLK, Maya Angelou, JFK or Ghandi. If those quotes are unflattering to his memory, well, that is the way it goes.
Well said! Sorry I can't subscribe, but I appreciate your work, and your path as a single women! Proud to have found you.
Thank you
Keep it up, T. We need voices like yours
Thank you Caleb
Of course Trump is not Hitler, Hitler concentration camps had Jews, Trump concentration camps has Latinos, how dare someone make such comparison?…. the people on the right never manage to disappoint with their gaslighting
As much as I agree with your position that things should not be this way, when I think about the historical record of political violence in America, I would argue that political violence, which resulted in the murder of Mr. Kirk, is baked into the American culture. I would concede that we might be entering a period of peak violence, but the violence has always been there. I pray that the phrase, "this is not who we are" becomes more than aspirational, but unfortunately when I look at the long historical record my conclusion would be this is exactly who we are. Please, stay safe out there.
It is becoming harder and harder to believe the phrase ‘this is not who we are’.
I am not 100% sure this is political violence as much as gamer induced violence. I am just not an expert on analyzing psychopath’s motivation as everyone else on the planet is I guess.
Charlie Kirk demonstrated that what we say can have consequences well beyond our own imagining.
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Time to take a deep dive into money and the rage machine.
It all goes to the top
My sister married but it did not work out. She is happily single and I doubt she will ever marry again. She enjoys her nieces and nephews and her two dogs. She lives on a tree farm which she bought in Oregon and raises trees for sale. I never even knew tree farms existed until my sister bought one. Good for her. She is living life as she wants to and appears to be happy. That is great! Elena
Loved this Tara. One of the hardest traits to develop is active listening. I remember back to my grad school classes in counseling psychology developing this skill. When you really listen you can understand a person's point of view and actually can realize that they may be correct on some aspects of the issue being discussed without buying their entire point of view. Everything is not always black and white, in fact most things in life exist in the gray area. But if you are so smug in your beliefs then you run the risk of being what has come to be called closed minded. I don't want to be there.
I found this fairly useless. Who is this Tameka person? Equating MLK with Trump, the close pal of Epstein? That’s when I tuned out.
It is very sad how our American school system has failed us. We are all immigrants and deserve respect,not necessarily agreement with our views. Tara keep up the good work.
I’m not very familiar with Kirk or his speeches, but one of the biggest problems I see today is a loss of morals and basic humanity toward one another. If our leaders, political, spiritual, or otherwise preach hate and division then there will be more hate and division. It’s not a left versus right thing. It’s a humanity thing. I’m not sure what the answers are.
Tara, you being of Italian descent I can relate being a Mexican American and 73 yrs old I grew up with that attitude from the majority class. We were good with our hands, never really accepted in the main stream and the females in our extended family were frowned upon if they weren’t married out of high school. Now with the brutal take down of the Latinos on the American cities lets us know how this society is very prejudiced and spreading hatred bc of our skin color and our Spanish language. I grew up in the Affirmative Action days and now bc of Trump’s attitude towards Latinos and African Americans he has eliminated Diversity Equality and Inclusion. We are at a very worrisome time for many people in society. With Miller and Trump agenda the economy will definitely be affected for the worst. Please keep your messages coming bc journalists convey so much good on the masses!
It’s amazing that even in your comments your admirers feel Charlie got what he deserved. Sick, sad, and totally disgusting. Like his wife Erika said “ you have no idea what you have unleashed into this world”. Charlie Kirk has been Martyred and the Dems will struggle in elections.
Who actually said that?
Hmmm….what comments are you reading HERE from Tara’s ‘admirers’ that says he got what he deserved? You are projecting what fits the narrative you choose to put forward.
Vile???? Really Steve. Because you couldn’t relate to him. He was a decent human being with his own opinion.
This touches on what Tara mentioned in here article, where some people viewed Kirk as a devoted father and activist, while other will view him as misogynistic and divisive. Now, just as everyone is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, people are also entitled to feel how they want to feel about Kirk’s death, which is determine by how people felt about him as a person and how he interacted with others.
If you are not one that hates, but you hate when people are hateful to others that are not like you or that they disagree with you, does that make you hateful as well?
It’s a good question
Thanks Tara. Keep up your good work!
thanks, I'm just trying to reason, if that's possible