Like many Canadians, I'd barely heard of Charlie Kirk. I try not to get very deep in the weeds of Trumpazoidal America.
But given how it's becoming the American Right's opportunity to silence just about anybody, it seems worth saying something.
But it's a Canadian issue too. I saw Kara Swisher noting that the appropriate headline today for any serious media is not "ABC cancels Jimmy Kimmel over Kirk comments" but '"ABC cancels Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump." Sadly, both the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail failed this test this morning, both going for the first of the two headline options above.
I still don't know that much about Charlie Kirk, except that he apparently once said
"It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."
The Second Amendment is the one about gun rights. The free speech one, now seemingly in abeyance, is the First.
Someone who does know about Kirk and what he represents is the American writer Ta-Nahesi Coates. I haven't heard if Vanity Fair has been ordered to cancel him but just in case, here's the link.
