It appears that even a meme can be powerful enough to tear a family apart. A New York man shared a shocking experience of how his sister cut him off from her family over his stance on Erika Kirk’s mourning of her late husband, Charlie Kirk. The man recounted his experience in a video posted on Reddit. “My sister won’t talk to me and won’t let me see my nephews because I shared a Charlie Kirk meme,” he began, before explaining how the situation unfolded.
He also included the meme in the video, which read, “Fake grieving widow grifter costume.” The image showed Erika wearing leather pants and a white top, with her face painted like a clown, her hair untidy, and money in her hand. He explained that the meme was meant to portray Erica Kirk crying while simultaneously promoting and selling books. He went on to say that he could only view the situation in two ways. The first being, “Nobody in history ever has grieved the way Erika Kirk is grieving now,” or secondly, “There’s a situation where someone dies, and we wanna come out to grieve with fireworks and merch and T-shirt cannons.” He explained these two perspectives, adding that he told his sister there was only one person he could imagine mourning that way, and that he would “love to mourn Donald Trump the way Erika is mourning Charlie.”
The conversation continued in the comments, where different people shared their reactions. “Sounds like this wasn’t a great loss on your part,” one person wrote. Another added in disbelief, “Wow… I still can’t believe people are cutting each other off for people who do not care about them one bit!!! Don’t know them, won’t care if you die, etc.” A netizen commented, “When pearl-clutching is more important than family relationships. Just another step in the dismantling of America from the inside. We can’t stand together if we are divided.”
Another commenter painted a scenario, writing, “Imagine Mary Todd Lincoln or Jackie Kennedy grieving with arena-size pyrotechnic spectaculars.” This user empathized with the man, writing, “I’m sorry that’s happening to you 😔. The division is crazy, and it is tearing up families.” A netizen summed up the conversation by supporting the man’s stance, writing, “He’s right; it wasn’t mourning, it was a celebration of the Zionist takeover of TPUSA.”
Politics or difference in opinions should never be enough to tear apart a family as in the case of this New York man. Division seems to be at an all-time high
