Rainn Wilson recounts liberal friends having a kind of a good riddance response to Charlie Kirks killing

On his “Soul Boom” podcast Wednesday, “The Office” star Rainn Wilson recounted some of his liberal friends having a “kind of a good riddance” reaction to the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last week.“I spoke to a couple of — let’s say — some liberal friends last night at an event, and they were like, ‘You won’t find me shedding any tears,’ and someone else was like, ‘Oh well.’ There was a little bit of a, kind of a good riddance thing, and it’s like, ‘Guys, no,” he told actor Mark Ruffalo.“We cannot think or talk that way.

That is not okay.”Earlier in the podcast, Wilson noted that while he didn’t agree with Kirk’s ideas, “shooting someone that we disagree with, even if they’re vociferous and loud and out there, is so colossally wrongheaded.”The exchange between the two actors, Wilson explained, was a clip of a future episode that has not yet aired. Ruffalo also chimed in with his take on Kirk’s assassination and the deepening political divide within the country.He mentioned that Kirk’s death hit especially close to home for him, considering his brother was also shot and killed.“There’s no winning.

We’ll never win this way,” he told Wilson.“There’s no idea that if we cheer on our opponents being hurt or harmed in any way that we win as a society.

And we all lose, like those — I know what his family is going through.Like, I understand that on such a personal level, and it’s a tragedy that not only the person who is killed experiences, but the entire family and community around that person.”The actor continued, saying that although Kirk was his “political opponent,” his heart still broke for him when he learned the news of his assassination.Wilson pushed back on Ruffalo’s use of the word “opponent,” arguing that kind of rhetoric fuels division.“Someone who disagrees with, who we disagree with, even vehemently, and we think they’re sending the country...