Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    Exactly… Kirk was literally indoctrinating children into a hateful, murderous ideology. All of this praise is sickening.

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      3 hours ago

      Find the praise, find the sickos.

      Only a dead Nazi is a good Nazi.
      And that is more than just a slogan.
      In my mind it stems from the realization that those who don’t honour the social contract forfeit any protection granted by it.
      Take it or leave it, but don’t cherry-pick.
      If you hate on people and want them dead, well, guess what other people may think of your right to live?