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Calls for “Toning Down the Rhetoric” are Incredibly One-Sided
The right wants the left to abide by rules of decorum that they reject daily
According to the Governor of Utah, Tyler Robinson, the assassin of Charlie Kirk was apparently motivated by left-wing, antifascist politics. This we know, or so it is claimed, because of inscriptions on the bullet casings found with the rifle. Among them: “Hey Fascist, Catch!” and “Bella Ciao,” which is a reference to an Italian antifascist song from the era of anti-Mussolini resistance.
Aside from the fact that scratches on bullets are hardly a cohesive manifesto, let’s assume for the moment that Robinson was, indeed, committed to a left-wing worldview and perceived Kirk as a fascist.
This, despite having been raised in a conservative and Republican home, in one of the most conservative parts of a conservative state, by a minister and former law enforcement officer father.
It’s certainly possible. Thanks to the internet — and Robinson, it seems, was extremely online, according to those who knew him from Discord and based on some of the meme culture references on the bullet casings — it isn’t hard to find material that can radicalize, in one or another political direction.
