I found this interview from Ilhan Omar very emotionally provocative.

Initially, I felt a lot of anger, but I've heard a lot of terrible things said about Charlie Kirk and I wanted to explore why I found her words so provocative.

I think the weight of her words were in saying that his legacy should be "in the dust bin of history".

The thing is, if we think someone is wrong or terrible, we take their legacy as important. Not because we agree with them, but because we want to understand their motivations, errors, and not repeat the evils of the past.

We understand that it's important to understand Adolf Hitler and his writings in Mein Kampf. We understand that it's important to understand the background and motivations of Osama Bin Laden.

So why would someone want someone's ideas and legacy, which are clearly inspiring others, to be forgotten and never heard from again?

I think that reason is that to erase ideas entirely is not to defeat them. The only reason to demand they be forgotten is fear—fear that those ideas reveal truths that threaten the illusions that those individuals wish to protect.

https://blossom.primal.net/0df76c44b9340b4dd25e2352c6f9892ce6993da5a65196f68694f568ff82d321.mp4