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Live and let live: US comedian Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! for making jokes relating to the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Photo: Randy Holmes/Disney

Why free speech matters: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk and cancel culture

Why hate speech should not be banned and why there is no way of dealing with it — except more speech

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
Like US President Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk saw migrants as intruders who must be removed, and the homeless as lazy people. Photo: Schneyder Mendoza/AFP

The fault lines of Charlie Kirk’s socio-political and theological nationalism

The American right-wing Christian nationalist, media personality and ally of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shot dead on 10 September

5 min read