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Progressive author Ta-Nehisi Coates said in a new interview that while he took no joy in conservative activist Charlie Kirk's death, he thought of him as a "hatemonger."

While they both lamented Kirk’s assassination, both Coates and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein advocated different responses to Kirk’s death. Klein wrote shortly after he was killed that Kirk practiced politics "the right way ." He received sharp liberal backlash, including from Coates, a longtime friend.

"For me, the immediate hours after somebody is murdered in public, when you see that sort of grief and horror pouring out of the people who loved him, and many people loved him, my instinct then is to just sit with them in their grief," Klein said. He

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