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Coldplay fans boo as Chris Martin urges crowd to ‘send love’ to Charlie Kirk’s family
(www.standard.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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I think people will ask how the power of peace and love stopped Nazi Germany and protected the victims of the holocaust.
Empathy, solidarity, and love are important but let's not pretend that if we just love those who hate minorities hard enough, they'll stop doing it.
I think the important point is that love and violence are not in opposition. If I save someone by harming or killing their attacker, that is love. I don't have to hate their attacker to do what needs to be done to protect them.
This idea can be employed to justify lots of things of varying morality. I don't think you can really mean it as a general principle.
Anything can be used by people of varying morality to justify anything, nothing anyone says can stop that. You're using your varying morality to protect Nazis right now.
It's addressing your assumption that the comments here are due to hatred.
Sure, but how does that apply to wishing good things to the family of a murdered podcast host? Is that really the point where to should make a stand?
I think it will work on some people.
Calling him a podcast host is downplaying everything else he was that harmed so many people, and will continue resulting in further harm even after his death.
You could argue there's less hate in the world now
Is there something strange happening in your instance? I've seen a few accounts from there commenting some weird right-wing things lately.
Like for instance? It's a free for all instance, so anyone can join.
"Like for instance?" What do you mean, sorry?
I'm aware anybody can join, but I've found instances tend to have stereotypes
I meant: what kind of weird right-wing things, can you give examples?
Oh! Sure, things like comparing Kirk to MLK and running obfuscation and defense for people who spread fascist rhetoric.