Some people are just horrible, horrible, horrible people. And, it seems, a lot of them hang out on the far-left social-media platform Bluesky. Some of these horrible people are reacting to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but not with regret, or calls for moderation, or even consideration for Charlie's family. No, these horrible people are celebrating Charlie's murder, and it's gotten bad enough that Bluesky is having to warn those horrible people to back off.
Bluesky warned users Thursday that celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk violated its rules after dozens of posts on the platform celebrated the grisly killing of the conservative activist.
While some of the reactions to Kirk’s assassination on Bluesky condemned the murder — many took the opportunity to rip the slain activist over his politics with a torrent of personal attacks.
Author Wajahat Ali called the shooting “criminal, wrong, and should be condemned,” but added that Kirk was “a horrible, hateful man” who targeted marginalized groups, saying, “I refuse to sanitize him.”
Bear in mind that these are the milder of the epithets that have been tossed around following Charlie's murder. They aren't all coming from Bluesky, either; there have been plenty of similar posts on X, where I maintain an account, and from what I hear on Facebook, where I do not.
But these people!
Others were openly hostile. One user posted, “The person who motivated the shooting of Charlie Kirk was Charlie Kirk.”
Another wrote, “charlie kirk lived and died in the america that charlie kirk wanted to exist.”
A different account said, “RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.”
The band The USA Singers resurfaced an old headline quoting Kirk saying gun deaths were “unfortunately” worth the cost of preserving the Second Amendment, while another user posted a Rolling Stone article in which Kirk suggested a “patriot” should bail out Paul Pelosi’s attacker, captioning it, “F–k Charlie Kirk.”
“Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines,” the company posted.
“We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse.”
What awful people.
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Whatever happened to simple human decency? My mother used to caution me that if I didn't have anything nice to say, I should not say anything at all. This led to some prolonged silences on my part when I was around some of my cousins, but it seemed to work. If these people can't show some respect or, at least, some consideration for Charlie's young family, they might try to remember that Charlie left behind a young wife and two small children, and the young Mrs. Kirk is no doubt struggling with the awful realization that she will somehow have to put their lives back together all by herself.
Now, Bluesky, an admittedly left-wing platform, is having to issue statements asking horrible people to please not be horrible people, at least not publicly. Well, Bluesky, if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas, and you have a damned big infestation right now. Best buy some flea powder.