Can We Please Stop Celebrating Shooters?
Related: CoC Gone Wrong: Celebrating Murder OK, Complaining About the Celebration Gets You Banned | Celebrating Assassination is Bad Because It Legitimises Assassination of the People You Like, Too
Restraint and manners matter. Celebrating a murder is never a good idea, no matter whose. It serves to normalise bad behaviour. As Garry Kasparov's site put it: "I more than disagreed with Kirk’s actions and statements. I rejected much of his worldview. What happened today does not change my perspective. But my ideological opposition does not in any way qualify my condemnation of this horrendous attack. Violence harms not only the target, but society at large."
The CoC, instead of working to suppress celebration/s of violence, instead got used for condemnation of common sense.
"An important point to hammer on is that CoCs were never intended for uniform or symmetric application," as an associate put it.
As Uriel Epshtein explains:
I know that our democracy is under unprecedented strain in America. Highlighting that threat is at the heart of what RDI does. But political violence—regardless of whom it targets—is a sign that we are giving up. We are saying that the fight is already over. That our institutions have been 100% eviscerated and that every possible avenue for peacefully resolving our problems has been exhausted.Then politics becomes a question of survival of the fittest, and that’s very dangerous territory for us to be in.
But tonight, I’m thinking of a wife who was robbed of her husband and two kids who are going to grow up without a dad.
Please stop celebrating violence. It's not funny. It's not 'hip'. It moreover gets exploited by trolls [1, 2] like Microsoft Lunduke to post things like these:
Of course Microsoft Lunduke himself endorses violent behaviour, so he's being hypocritical and projects. That's another matter. █