In the wake of Turning Point USA founder and white supremacist Charlie Kirk’s murder, a lot of people are calling for civility. Specifically, civility from “the left.”

And look, I prefer it when people are civil to each other. It makes life easier for everyone involved. For example, I am very grateful that in the years following their divorce, my parents were, by and large, civil to each other. They still had kids to raise together, after all. It was definitely a preferable situation to some of the divorce horror stories I’ve heard.

But all too often and for far too many people, “civility” is a costume. It’s used to disguise messages of hatred and dehumanization — the very messages that Kirk made his living disseminating. He spent his career demonizing people he saw as inferior. LGBTQ+ p

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