Inquest

And the death of lies about Charlie Kirk

Tyler Robinson in yesterday’s hearing. Screenshot

Majorities of Americans on both sides of the political aisle agree that “extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor” to Tyler Robinson’s rage against Charlie Kirk. But Robinson is not a “disturbed person”, as public opinion polling seemed to show in November. He is a man who loved a man who was medicalizing to ‘become’ a woman. Tyler Robinson seems to have preferred this homophobic transgressive romantic formula, gynandromorphophilia, or GAMP, the way other young, white men prefer blondes or redheads. Robinson waited until Kirk said the word “transgender” before pulling the trigger. He loved his boyfriend because she was a ‘girlfriend’. He loved the ‘girlfriend’ so much that he killed for ‘her’.

It is a tale as old as time, now told about an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying the sexual. Irrational obsession with a transgender partner is hardly an inherently leftist mode of ideology. Never an intellectual or academic, Robinson was driven by ideation. His rejection of conservative family politics probably helped to shape, even sanctify his sexuality, yet this is not a political indoctrination. Tyler Robinson never had to read Judith Butler or the continental school of philosophy to become a constructivist before he loved someone so much he would kill. Instead, he developed a ladyboy fetish. It is hard to enjoy a fetish when Charlie Kirk will not stop debating whether that fetish is really a civil right, or not. This, and not some political program, is why Robinson felt that Kirk ought to die.

Nevertheless, champions of the political program that includes GAMPs like Robinson, and ‘validates’ their ladyboyfriends as ‘women’, did celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk. As with Robinson, they excuse the murder of a man in the presence of his wife and small children for the crime of debating transgenderism because that is “hate”. This word, “hate”, justifies every ego-dystonic display of leftist arousal at the permanent silencing of debate. “Hate” is defined as whatever the person saying “hate” hates to hear spoken in debate. Cancel culture celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk and wrecked itself in the backlash. Free speech was supposed to come without consequences, they thought, because they were on the right side of history, and that makes it okay to be an asshole.

Yesterday, the trial of Tyler Robinson began the slow, grinding-out of truth from the chaff of lies about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Paranoid conspiracy-mongering on the right has threatened the foundations of conservative action, Candace Owens being the most notorious figure to do so. She is ‘just asking questions’, but they are stupid questions that will not survive the Robinson trial. The verdict is a foregone conclusion. The trial is in reality an inquest into the motive of the killer and the exact timeline of his actions. Unlike a podcast, there will be witnesses on the record and actual crime scene evidence will be presented. The purpose of the trial is to convict the lies about the death of Charlie Kirk and hang them until they are dead.