Leftist political action group VietRise attacked the Charlie Kirk in a recent Instagram post, calling the late, assassinated conservative activist a xenophobe and racist who was “known for…his hateful views.”
Of course, VietRise’s name-calling is as false as it it egregious. Neither Kirk nor his views can be reasonably termed xenophobic, racist or hateful by any normal person with a grasp of what those words actually mean.
What the VietRise cadre is really saying is the positions espoused by Kirk were contrary to their ideological orthodoxy. Anyone who doesn’t hold with VietRise’s support for open borders and non-citizen voting is ipso facto a xenophobe and a racist.
Kirk’s mission was building a political movement on the basis of direct and open and free debate – and he was colossally successful at it. VietRise wasn’t founded to persuade and engage, but to build and acquire “power” through lobbying and berating and attacking. As such, maliciously and mendaciously attacking the victim of a political assassination as a means for browbeating their enemies on the Westminster City Council is par for the course for VietRise.
Maybe they ought to change the name the VietRage. It would be truer to nature.
