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When I was young, I was taught that “sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me’. At one level that is true, but one lesson brought into sharp relief by the public execution of Charlie Kirk is that words are enough to trigger some people into murderous action. So names matter. They have consequences.
When you spend years accusing your opponents of being “Nazis’, “extreme right” “fascists” and other loaded terms, you are setting off a chain reaction and THAT is where the political Left has been for some years. In my own small way, I have been called all these things and more? Islamaphobe? Tick. Homophobe? Tick. Transphobe? Tick. Now I am NONE of these these thing and I dismiss the slurs with contempt. But those who demonise people in the way cannot distance themselves from the consequences when other choose to act on them. Acting all innocent when a lunatic acts on your words simply won’t pass.
Charlie Kirk was accused by his opponents of being a far right fascist, a racist and a transphobe. Tyler Robinson bought into this and it is evidence in what he confessed to his trans boyfriend.
“‘I had enough of his hatred, ‘Some hate can’t be negotiated out.'”
Charlie taught a Christian gospel of love. His enemies called it hate and then lunatics like Robinson acted on it and shot him to death. Where does responsibility lie for this?
Well, it lies with Tyler Robinson. If there were any other co-conspirators it lies with them. And it lies with ALL those on the political left he demonised Charlie Kirk.
It doesn’t stop there. On Saturday of last week there was a very large gathering of British patriots in London organised by Tommy Robinson. They came from all part of the UK, all ages, many ethnicities, and it was beautiful to see. The Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed this was the “far right”, Sadiq Khan echoed the claim. This is exactly what the Left keeps doing. It uses incendiary language, and the fuse is lit.
It needs to be careful it does not blow up in its face.
