Harambe, for one.

More than that, though, this assassination was particularly counterproductive because it basically played to the worst stereotypes about "the left" not willing to listen to anything they disagree with.

I may disagree with the vast majority of Charlie Kirk's opinions, but he was at a university, inviting others who strongly disagreed with him to debate him, face-to-face. I may not be a particular fan of this style of interaction (I find it to be more about shock value/talking points/getting clips of particular stupid things people will say than actual clarification or education), it was still an open forum that shouldn't be feared in a free society that supposedly values free speech.

Well thousands and thousands of people are being murdered all the time. You (or anyone) couldn’t care less about almost every single one of them.

So why single out this one? I mean who cares about school shootings? One nutjob murdering another nutjob on the other hand…

>Any human with their head screwed on straight innately assigns a very negative value weight to murder.

Murderers walk freely among you, and we're not all bad people. A few good people earn their legal kills.

A healthy society would encourage any speech which could reduce divisiveness (e.g. comments on Mr. Kirk, without retribution) — yet ours thrives on division, getting people to hate better with bigger hearts.

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"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society..."

I edited my above-comment to better incorporate multiple comedian's POV on off-color humor ("x-isms," to use PG's terminology)

>Where was the joke?

If any comedian's attempt at any "joke," however tactless, led to any two+ people sitting down and having discussion of real-world realities... then I think the jokester has exceled professionally (honestly I haven't seen this Kimmel clip; I always just remember him as black-face-guy from 90s Comedy Central™ — which was as appropriate/funny/accepted as Downey in Tropic Thunder).

So in this particular case, Kimmel continues his professionalism as Jester.

The state doesn't have to censor anything when most people are too afraid to comment publicly (retaliation).

My original argument, above, is that comedians ought to be allowed to "joke" about anything, as long as it generates community discussion. Any discussion will generate better outcomes than 2-party's design of PureHate™.

Who paid Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, or Gavrillo Princip? Assassination is a subset of murder, with political motives. It seems very accurate in this situation

I’ve never seen this interpretation of the word before. Usually that’s a “hit.”

An assassination is a murder if someone notable, often for political reasons.

It is an assassination, look up the definition.

Assassination has nothing to do with murder-for-hire. Never has.