Jewish World Review: Dan McCarthy
"The Piker audience is a Democratic audience, and the party wants his support, even if Democratic candidates don't want to take responsibility for what Piker and his followers actually believe."
"The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year.
"Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk's assassination, leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song called "We Are Charlie Kirk."
"'We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We'll fight for the Gospel, we'll honor his name," Piker sang off-key, the crowd howling along, while the celebrity socialist's co-hosts guffawed and waved their arms in the air.
"This wasn't satirizing a political opponent — Kirk has been dead nearly a year.
"Why make him the subject of this derision?
"It's because Piker knows his audience, and they're not looking for thoughtful politics. They want a hatefest.
"Readers of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" might remember the totalitarian leftist party that runs the dystopian state in that novel regularly held events called a "Two Minutes Hate" to whip up hostility against the regime's enemies.
"Piker has improved on that — his podcast and live events like this offer more than an hour's hate.
"And nobody stirs the Piker crowd into a frenzy like Charlie Kirk.
"The slain Turning Point USA founder represents everything they're against, and not just because he was a widely successful conservative organizer who won young Americans away from socialism on the unfriendly campuses where he spoke — and where he ultimately died for his beliefs.
"Kirk's faith in God, his devotion to his family, his happiness all infuriated his enemies.
"His self-sacrifice did, too, and more than anything else:
"Kirk knew the risks he took by going where he wasn't welcome and speaking truths the left didn't want to hear — and was determined to prevent anyone else from hearing.
"Yet Kirk did it anyway, fearlessly, and put his life on the line because of the strength of his convictions." . . . More...
"Ms. Attiah’s remarks about Mr. Kirk’s assassination, which she posted to the social network Bluesky on Sept. 10, the day he was shot, responded to the outpouring of grief after the shooting. “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence,” Ms. Attiah wrote in one of the posts."
Some teachers caught vilely mocking Charlie Kirk's death may still be [in the] classroom
“These are not isolated missteps. They reflect a broader, deeply troubling trend of radical ideology festering unchecked in our education system,” Stefanik wrote. “Those who abuse their positions to promote hate and division must be immediately investigated and held accountable.”
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