Charlie Kirk was everything that the far left isn't

Charlie Kirk was a very strong believer in discussion. He believed in, and often expressed the sheer importance of people talking to each other. He believed that differences in opinions should be resolved via peaceful discussion and debate. He often compared the entirety of society to a married couple: What happens when a married couple stops talking to each other? What happens when they stop telling each other what they think and what they feel? What happens when the stop listening to each other?

He was a strong believer in not just the universal inalienable right to free speech, but in giving everybody a voice. He didn't try to silence his political opposition. He didn't try to shut them off, or have them go away, or them experiencing negative consequences for their expression of opinion. He didn't try to "cancel" anybody, not even his fiercest opponents.

On the contrary, he was always happy to have a civil discussion even with people who hated him and opposed everything he stood for. He wanted to hear what they have to say, and to have a conversation about it. He frequented university campuses, not to speak in an echo chamber and ideological bubble but, on the contrary, to invite his opponents to ask him questions and express their points of view, so that they could have an amicable back-and-forth conversation.

He didn't try to silence even people who strongly opposed his views and presented extreme criticism. On the contrary, he wanted for them to have a chance to speak and to express that criticism. In several occasions he went so far as to even tell his fans and followers to let that person speak, if they were being too disruptive. He didn't embrace the disruption and the chaos. He embraced the peaceful back-and-forth expression of opinion, and he welcomed everybody to have a voice, particularly the dissenters and those who thought differently from him.

In other words, he was the polar opposite of an American far-leftist. He didn't want to shut up his opposition: He wanted to hear them. 

I don't know if he ever said it directly, but I am quite certain that he would have strongly subscribed to the sentiment written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, attributing the sentiment to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Unfortunately and sadly, in this case that became way too literally true.