Progressive author Ta-Nehisi Coates said in a new interview that he, although he did not give joy in the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, considered him a 'hatemony'.
While they both complained that the murder of Kirk, both coates and columnist of the New York Times, Ezra Klein, argued various reactions to the death of Kirk. Klein wrote shortly after he was killed that Kirk practiced politics 'in the right way'. He received a sharp liberal recoil, including from Coates, an old friend.
“For me, the immediate hours after someone has been killed in public, when you see that kind of sadness and horror flowing from the people who loved him, and many people loved him, my instinct is simply sitting with them in their grief,” said Klein. He further claimed that listing all ideological issues with a person and their estate after their tragic death is simply not what one does in a shared society.
“That is all understandable,” Coates said, agreed on how horrible the murder was. “But I think … was silence not an option?”
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“Yes. 'Silence' for me was not mourning with people, as I thought it was not important, because someone who is liberal,” said Klein, claim that moments of political violence are an important moment to bridge ideological gap.
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Coates countered that so much love is a powerful power in politics, hatred is too. He accused the killed turning point USA co-founder of a 'hatemonger'.
“And I think Charlie Kirk was a hatemony,” he said. “You know, I really have to say this again and again. I have rejects a politics that rejects violence, that political violence. I enjoy the murder of someone, regardless of what they said. But if you ask me what the truth of his life was, you know, the truth of his public life, I should tell the truth of his public life.
Earlier in the podcast, Coates Kirk and his organization had beaten, with the argument that neither should be seen as an ideal for practicing politics, with reference to his experience that investigated an up-and-edge that Kirk's inheritance was cleaned.
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“But I always think it is important to distinguish how people die versus how they live,” he said. “And after doing the investigation, I have to be honest with you, then it really became very difficult – when I went beyond my first impressions and went through all the things he said, the way he spoke about people, the way he described groups on ways that, honestly, even when I wrote it, I was uncomfortable.”
“And therefore the idea that this man should be celebrated in any way for how he led politics, the fact that he just walked across the board, you know, all kinds of people and then an organization in which, which seemed to me only an oasis of hatred, I would not want a model for my politics,” he added.
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Original article Source: Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Charlie Kirk a 'hatemony' that should not be celebrated
