What Our Reaction to Charlie Kirk Says About Us

Daily Video 9/11/25

One of the best memes I saw yesterday said, “Sometimes it’s OK to not react. Sometimes it’s OK to reflect.”

I like that.

Because social media says “Everyone has a voice!” we all think our voice is important.

We are usually wrong.

One person I know well wrote, “I never post about politics, but…”

And then went on to have a pretty blinders-on, thoughtless take on what happened.

I found it mildly depressing that someone seemingly dedicated to remaining silent chose the wrong side to land on when finally speaking out.

But, that’s what big events do to us: we feel the need to take a side.

It’s amazing to me that despite how clear-cut the right and wrong division can be, some people willingly and actively flock to it.

They embrace it, and it boggles my mind.

Anyway, here’s the text of the video.

For algorithmic purposes, of course.

I saw a video, “College Student Destroys Charlie Kirk Using Bible Verses.”
 
It was basically a reenactment of a scene from season 2 of The West Wing, twenty-five years ago.
 
That means we’re just repeating the exact same arguments over, and over, and over, and it makes me wonder if it’s even possible to fix someone’s broken moral compass.
 
When Charlie was shot, people immediately divided into the encampments you’d expect.
 
It became another moment to practice the sport of extreme polarization, over reflection.
 
We do it with every school shooting, every hate-crime, everything that used to give us a moment of pause.
 
Now, we just sharpen our knives, and get back in the ring.
 
Because in America, even morality isn’t about right or wrong, it’s about which team jersey you’re wearing when the bullet lands.
 
And the only bipartisan thing left in is indifference to the other side.