As an adult, I’ve seen what happens when rhetoric hardens into organization and real-world violence. There is no link between what happened to Kirk and “antifa” or BLM or whatever the current administration has labeled as the enemy. I came of age and started forming real political opinions in high school, around 2010, a period ripe with racist, violent rhetoric. The issue of the casual cruelty of calling for violence against others is an ongoing, unacceptable American problem that threatens our democracy. Yet, despite the ongoing normalization of violence, there has not been a state-sponsored effort to censor the media.