There is no better tribute to Charlie Kirk but to cement his legacy with his own words. Read on, my friends--
Kirk has long been a believer and propagator of the“Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory”, which scholars have deemed antisemitic. The implication is that this ideology is a Jewish conspiracy designed to undermine U.S. Christian values. Kirk has often blamed Jewish people for funding cultural Marxist ideas in academia, putting a target on one of the most harassed minorities in the country. He also once said Jewish money was ruining U.S. culture.
In February 2024, Kirk posted that ‘The Great Replacement’ was a "reality" and not a theory, saying “The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is astrategy to replace white rural America with something different.” (The Charlie Kirk Show, March 1, 2024) The theory is based on the idea that undocumented immigrants are entering the US to replace white Americans. It has been widely debunked as a conspiracy theory but has been adopted by prominent far-right politicians and media.
Kirk refused to accept transgender people, or that a person could identify as a different gender than the one they were born as. He said he believed people who were transgender had a "mental illness" and needed "brain treatment". To support his stance, he often quoted the Bible, stating "A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak."
“What is with this all gender bathroom stuff?” he asked atthe start of an April 12, 2022 event. “What on Earth is that all about? I mean, I live in Arizona, we don’t have that, obviously. You go in there and it’s like boys and girls both in the same restroom. I got thinking to myself, ‘How did this happen?’ It happened for a couple reasons. One of the reasons is that we tried to reconfigure society to accommodate and pander to a hyper-vocal minority that itself will never actually be happy regardless of how many changes we make for the alphabet mafia, it’s never going to be enough, right? Bathrooms, pronouns, whatever, but then it’s like we have to teach your four-year-old about whether or not they need to transition or not.”
When asked how Christians can show compassion to trans people, Kirk replied, “I do not believe transitioning your gender is right for people. I think it’s a lie and we should tell people that suicide rates are extremely high for people that transition.”
On his April 1, 2024 show, Kirk said, “Feminism was never about advancing female rights. Feminism was about hating men. What better way to hate men than to take young boys and chop off their parts?”
At a conference in 2023 Kirk revealed that he didn’t supportthe Civil Rights Act of 1965 which prohibited discrimination on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and prohibited segregation. He specifically said, "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
On his January 23, 2024 show, Kirk once expressed fear that Blackpilots are not properly qualified and implying they are putting his life in danger—saying, "If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'"
Kirk also once said some prominent Black women did not have "the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously."
On his January 3, 2024 show, Kirk said, “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder if she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Kirk regularly shared conspiracy theories on social media. Kirk wrote false text messages charging that Biden has sent “goons DOOR-TO-DOOR to make you take a covid-19 vaccine”, as the Washington Post first reported. It led to him being banned for a time from Twitter for misinformation. A Kirk non-profit ran alarmist and erroneous Facebook ads, which were seen millions of times, stating that the governmenthas “NO RIGHT to force you to inject yourself with an experimental vaccine,” and warning that in response to advice about shots “LOCK YOUR DOORS, KIDS!!” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/23/turning-point-rightwing-youth-group-critics-tactics
After the 2020 election, Kirk and his outfits were vocalexponents of baseless claims of election fraud. Kirk’s Turning Point Action group worked with about a dozen other groups to support Trump’s 6 January “March to Save America” by bringing busloads of Trump allies to DC for the rally that preceded the Capitol attack. Before the rally, Kirk boasted in a tweet that Turning Point Action – and an allied group, Trump Students, that Kirk also chaired – would bring “80 + busloads of patriots to DC to fight for the president”. Kirk predicted the event “would likely be one of the largest and most consequential in American history”. Kirk’s tweet was quickly removed after the assault on the Capitol.
In another podcast he suggested incarceration would solvethe housing crisis in the US. "We do not have enough people in jail in this country," he said. One of my hopes is to turn the Republican party into a resolutely stronger party on crime," he continued. "We are not harsh enough on crime in this country . . . and this is not just about stopping criminals. If you enforce the law, housing will be cheaper because more of the country will be livable."
Charlie Kirk called for eliminating sign languageinterpreters during emergency briefings: “It's a distraction,” he said.
In February 2024, while discussing capital punishment, Kirk said children should watch people being killed using the death penalty and that executions should be public. "Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it's an initiation..."
On his March 20, 2024 show, Kirk once claimed that Christians can't vote for Democrats and questioned the faith of any professing believer who does so. “The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.”
Kirk once disparaged empathy, saying, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."
Regarding gun rights, Kirk once said, "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
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