Charlie Kirk’s death is a tragedy. It is particularly tragic that he was shot and killed in a place built for the free exchange of ideas, while promoting the idea that political difference should be approached through conversation.
My teenage daughter came home from school and asked me if I’d heard the news that “Charlie Kirk was killed.” I was taken aback that this tragedy was occupying the mind of a grade 8 girl in Brisbane. I myself had barely heard of Charlie Kirk. This article is not going to focus on him but rather on our responses to this tragedy.
I’ve been watching outpourings of grief for this man I didn’t know and had barely heard of, thinking through why so many Australians are so engaged with politics and violence a world away.
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