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Not Mourning Charlie Kirk Is Not “Celebrating Violence.” It’s Holding a Line.
Charlie Kirk’s killing on September 10, 2025 at Utah Valley University was a political assassination: senseless and horrifying. You can condemn the act and still refuse to mourn the man. Those are not contradictory positions. They’re boundaries. What I’m not going to do here is confuse “refusing to mourn” with cheering a death. That’s projection from people who’ve spent years minimizing the deaths of children and normalizing cruelty as “just politics.” What I am going to do is lay out why so many people, especially parents, trauma survivors, and…


