IGNORANCE AND VIOLENCE. THE MURDER OF CHARLIE KIRK IN THE HYPER-POLARIZED AND IRRATIONAL WEST That Kirk was no saint is known to everyone, even to those who – disingenuously – cry scandal over the few irresponsible and foolish (certainly not leading politicians) who rejoice at the death of a young man. After all, a figure who spent his time degrading politics with barroom slogans of the lowest order, such as: “Michelle Obama, a woman of color, has an inferior brain to that of any white woman”, in a healthy and meritocratic society would never have enjoyed the space and consideration that Kirk did. For one may very well dislike the Obamas – and it is entirely legitimate to do so – but to claim that a woman like the former First Lady, who graduated with honors in Sociology from Princeton and in Law from Harvard, is less intelligent than any white woman merely because she is melanoderm is typical of a person with serious cognitive deficits, or, at best, of someone willing to lie blat...