cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36023983
by Nehemiah Frank and Ezekiel J. Walker
Sep 11, 2025He also attacked civil rights leaders and the laws that reshaped the nation. “Clarence Thomas was a far better black role model to celebrate than Martin Luther King. Period. End of story. This guy is not worthy of a national holiday,” Kirk said.
At Turning Point USA’s America Fest in 2023, he went further: “MLK was awful. … We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”
How could you forget? He only died like yesterday.
Have you seen the media blitz? Half of white people are like “who?” And thoroughly confused.
It’s disgusting how few outlets are willing to be critical. Sure some people last family. That family was an awful, vile human, though, and we really need to be saying that part.
He incited gun violence, racism, misogyny, and all manner of awful bigotry; and this is one of the rare times it’s absolutely not inappropriate to victim blame; at least in part.
And his last words were literally a racist dogwhistle.
Is it even a dogwhistle at this point?
He might as well have just said “I don’t count black people as people”
Well something was whistling, though that may have been the bullet…
Kirk frequently cast doubt on the qualifications of Black professionals. “If I see a black pilot, I’m gonna be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified,” he once said.
Holy shit
holy shit, what a shitstain. I didn’t like him for many reasons, so I’ll just add this to the list.
I love that he immediately started putting qualifiers on it, “you know, that’s not who I am” and then trying to blame DEI for making him racist lmao
That just sounds like game theory to me!
I know you mean something else but I can’t help but interpret this as an insult to Matpat.
I was just quoting the dude. I’m not sure what he meant, but it seemed funny.
The guy that believed that gay people should be stoned to death. That the civil rights movement was “a huge mistake”. The guy who advocated men should physically attack transgender people and that all women should submit to their husbands… the guy who believed Americans should be able to whip immigrants? This guy is a piece of work from the stone age that has infected millions of people with his bullshit. He lived by the stupid and died by the stupid. Probably a false flag operation. I wonder what if any thoughts went through his mind in those 30 seconds.
Charlie Kirk was political the same way the Ku Klux Klan is political.
Probably the best piece I’ve read in the last day on this.
It’s easy to get caught up in the Toilet Paper USA logic memes format but the originals were often hella fuckin racist, and millions of people were influenced by them.
By hosting far-right and white supremacist figures, Charlie Kirk helped normalize ideas once relegated to America’s political margins. Those choices blurred boundaries between mainstream conservatism and extremist ideologies. They offered legitimacy to voices attacking immigrants, Black communities, and LGBTQ people. His framing of affirmative action and Juneteenth fueled policy debates on education, civil rights, and diversity rollbacks.
Demonstrating how fragile our freedom is and why the government should stand for its people instead of against them.
Best one I heard. Live by the sword die by the sword.
I’ve said that several times over the last 2 days, and it’s just not hitting
But this guy called for political violence, he invited it
Charlie Kirk was political the same way the Ku Klux Klan is political.
The Ku Klux Klan is absolutely a political group…
When you do things in an effort to change society, that’s political. It doesn’t need to be coherent
