P.J. Gladnick writes for Newsbusters about the rapid reaction to a left-of-center columnist’s response to the Charlie Kirk assassination.
New York Times columnist Ezra Klein appears to have been angrily canceled by many of his fellow leftists and Democrats. His thought crime? He expressed sympathy for Charlie Kirk in the wake of his brutal assassination.
The very title of his Thursday opinion piece acted like red meat to the increasingly deranged left: “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.” And if this did not inflame the haters enough, some of Klein’s words sent them over the intolerant edge:
“The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything. Charlie Kirk — and his family — just lost everything. As a country, we came a step closer to losing everything, too.”
“…You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion.” …
… Those words shouldn’t be controversial but, unfortunately, we live in an era of the intolerant left as Ezra was soon to find out via the fury directed at him from all over the Web. One source of the inability of the left to tolerate diverse opinions came from Bluesky. …
… The comments from many of the New York Times readers were every bit as deranged as the ones you see above and all other places on the Web infested by the left. Welcome to being cancelled by your own fellow leftists, Ezra. Maybe this will be an opportunity to rethink your entire world view.
