The reaction over Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination touched yet another constituency this week: the collection of world leaders gathered at the United Nations.<\/p>\n
Two weeks after Kirk was shot and killed in Utah, several of the world leaders gathered at for the UN General Assembly this week referenced the conservative activist\u2019s slaying \u2014 and some of the divisive outpouring of reaction to it \u2014 as evidence of deeper fissures in global society.<\/p>\n
Decrying the \u201csick expression of joy for the crime committed against an innocent person,\u201d Serbian President Alexsandar Vucic told assembled leaders on Wednesday that reaction to Kirk\u2019s death represents \u201cthe best confirmation of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Social media lit up in the days after Kirk\u2019s Sept. 10 death with people mourning his loss \u2014 some of whom said they disagreed with Kirk\u2019s ideological stances but supported his right to voice them \u2014 as well as those celebrating it.<\/p>\n
It set off a national discussion about freedom of speech. Comments led to the firings of numerous people, from political analysts and opinion writers to school employees. Several conservative activists sought to identify social media users whose posts about Kirk they viewed as offensive or celebratory, targeting everyone from journalists to teachers.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Vucic said reaction to the conservative activist\u2019s assassination was demarcated \u201cless by ideological but much more by emotional hate driven differences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch a development devastates in a deepest and clearest way the world political community much more than conflicts with clear and visible actors,\u201d Vucic said, remarking on how such a seemingly singular event can evoke such strong reactions across the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was savagely assassinated just because his killer did not like his ideas,\u201d Vucic said of Kirk, suggesting that some of the reaction in the slaying\u2019s aftermath caused yet more damage in terms of the division it sowed. \u201cHe was shot even after death by the same ones who had prepared political and media grounds for his assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kirk was assassinated during a Sept. 10 event at Utah Valley University. US President Donald Trump and other administration leaders gathered Sunday at a memorial service, where other speakers noted the worldwide reaction to Kirk\u2019s death, mentioning areas around the world where memorials had sprung up.<\/p>\n
Paraguayan President Santiago Pe\u00f1a also mentioned Kirk in his speech Wednesday, saying in Spanish that he was \u201cshaken, saddened, and distressed\u201d by Kirk\u2019s killing and arguing that the \u201cmacabre response must awaken us from our sleepy state of complacency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Kirk, as well as last month\u2019s stabbing death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte\u2019s light rail system, as representative of \u201cheadlines about violent attacks happening all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, his life was short by a bullet,\u201d Zelensky said of Kirk. \u201cOnce again, violence with a rifle in hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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