Charlie Kirk — Three Thoughts from An Alternate Point of View

by Dave Kahle

While I have my opinions, I try to stay away from the political fray. I’m registered as an independent and try to stay that way. While it has its advantages, it also has disadvantages.

          For example, I did not know who Charlie Kirk was, and I had never heard of Turning Point, his organization.

          Seeing all the media publicity, I decided to investigate. So, I studied his website and reviewed his podcasts. I never met him and never heard him speak.

          Based on that bit of information, I found him to be an intelligent, charismatic man who had a passion for helping young people formulate healthy values and make good decisions. It looks like he was a bit of a free-thinker as well and believed in conversation with people who held different opinions.

          With that as background, I am appalled by the celebration of his murder and perplexed at the charge that he was ‘hateful and divisive, and therefore it is good that he was murdered.” As an objective observer, I’m puzzled by that sheer lack of human decency those positions reveal.

          Why is that? What explains this rash of contemptable behavior?

          I have three possibilities:

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1. The people who charge someone else as hateful and divisive are merely revealing their own nature.

I’ve been in business for over 40 years. I have interacted with tens of thousands of people in seminars and speaking engagements and have learned a lot. One lesson I have learned is this: When people demean someone else’s character, they say more about themselves than they do about the target of their rhetoric.

          People project their own character onto others. So, liars think everyone is lying. Thieves expect others to have a larcenous heart; manipulators think everyone is manipulating them. And so it goes.

          Hateful people charge others with being hateful.

          I suppose it is a trait of human nature to assume that everyone thinks the way we do. Perhaps psychologists have some insight on that. Regardless, this is one of the lessons I’ve learned, and I think it applies to some people here.

          This phenomenon has been around since people have inhabited the plant. You may recall that Jesus said,

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.(1)

2. Some people just don’t think very well (2) and have reacted to spurious internet claims without any... CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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