The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway
Conservative and expert activist Charlie Kirk was shot down And killed Wednesday, becoming another victim of America Epidemic of armed violence.
Kirk’s death was a tragedy for his friends and family. But the answer to this of many political leaders, journalists and media has whitewashed the substance of Kirk activism, which involved an endless geyser of hatred, fanaticism and disinformation.
President Donald Trump smuggle Kirk’s death on the political left in a video published Wednesday evening, arguing: “For years, those on the radical left compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to the Nazis and the worst mass murderers of the world. This type of rhetoric is directly responsible for terrorism that we see in our country today and this must stop at the moment. ”
Trump then announcement Thursday, he would award Kirk the presidential medal of freedom, that Trump previously rewarded to a notorious racist rush.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wrote“The best way to honor Charlie’s memory is to continue his work: to engage with each other, through ideology, through a fiery discourse.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and the governor of Pennsylvania. Josh ShapiroAlso democrats, both ordered flags stolen from half of the staff in honor of Kirk.
The New York Times editorial committee wrote on the incident in a column initially “America cries Charlie Kirk”, which was changed later Without editorial notation, something that has often happened in time.
The opinion columnist Ezra Klein, who is liberal, wrote a song This praised Kirk to “practice politics in the right way” and greet Kirk for his “Moxy and his fearlessness”.
His columnist for his colleagues David French, curator, in writing Kirk, “[W]Thumb he died, he was doing exactly what we ask people to do on campus: to introduce themselves. Debate. Talk. Pacific, even when emotions are high. »»
Rachel Bade, head of the Capitol Office of Politico, wrote“Agree with him or not, Charlie Kirk was a force of nature which adopted an open debate and engage with those who did not agree with him.”
Brian Stelter, chief of CNN media, was among the most blatant to laundering Kirk’s career. Apparently on the network And in its “reliable sources” columnStelter described Kirk as seriously looking for a fair debate through the political aisle. “He invited people to try to prove him the opposite,” said Stelter solemnly.
Stelter covered Kirk for years and is perfectly aware of his remarks and sectarian actions, but Stelter has rather chosen to distort the file after the death of the Pundit, offering a false dishonest representation to millions of people.
Kirk was a bigot, a misogynist and a racist who regularly excused the same kind of armed violence that put his life to his life.
In 2023, Kirk said“It is worth having a cost, unfortunately, of deaths by firearms each year so that we can have the second amendment.”
Kirk said In 2018 This violence armed in Chicago was the fault of a “pair problem in the black community”.
The promotion of racism was one of the most coherent positions in Kirk by leading the right -wing pressure groups Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
In 2024, he launched a campaign Attacking the heritage of the revered icon of civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kirk, said that King was “[a] The myth was created and it has become completely out of control. At a conference he held in the previous year, Kirk said King was “horrible” and “not a good person”.
Church claimed That the 1964 Civil Landmark Rights Act had become a “beast” and is an “anti-white weapon”.
In 2023, Kirk said“I do not believe that the month of the history of blacks is worth the kind of full month that it is at all.” He said that the celebration “only deepened all kinds of racial injuries and no longer creates fanaticism.”
Kirk was a promoter The theory of the racist conspiracy “great replacement”, which falsely claims the Latin American migrants try to replace the whites. As part of this crusade in August, he falsely accused The representative of Texas Jasmine Crockett, who is black, to engage in an “attempt to eliminate the white population in this country”.
In Kirk’s eyesJudge of the Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman to sit on the court, was an “unqualified” candidate and the “beneficiary of the positive action”.
After the floods In Texas in July, Kirk said that “the number of deaths would probably not have been so high if it was not for [diversity, equity, and inclusion]. “”
Kirk has repeatedly pushed anti-LGBTQ +rhetoric, with a specific emphasis on opposite transgender existence.
During a discussion on homosexual rights in 2024, Kirk referenced The Bible and noted that the passages indicating “running with another man and being stoned to death” were “the perfect law of God with regard to sexual questions”.
Discuss Trump’s presidential campaign in 2024, Kirk urged His favorite candidate to trigger “Nuremberg” style tests for doctors carrying out affirmative care between the sexes if he won. Nuremberg trials were trials from the Second World War Court who sought to continue the leaders of Nazi Germany for crimes against humanity.
Kirk described transgender people as “groomers” and said that transgender children were “mutilates[ing]”Their bodies. He also called on transgender athletes to be physically confronted for the alleged sin of trying to play sports.
Kirk also used Anti -Semitic stereotypes As part of its programs. In a show, he said, “Jewish dollars” had financed “cultural Marxist ideas”. In another, he invoked the long -standing anti -Semitic trope of the Jewish control of colleges, Hollywood and non -profit groups.
At the top of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirk said Vaccine requirements were “medical apartheid” and used his group to oppose vaccination. Church Also hake The baseless plot that 1.2 million people died of vaccinations.
After Trump lost the 2020 elections, Kirk called For vice, President Mike Pence at the time, to reject the votes of the electoral college for the president elected Joe Biden and to violate the Constitution.
Kirk group also exploited A website called Professor Watchlist, which listed the names of university professors and their photos as part of an attempted incentive to harassment against those who deviate from conservative thought on a multitude of questions.
Kirk’s murder was false. It was an outgrowth of pro-Gun culture that he himself helped to favor. But it was not a good person, and the media and others should not erase what man represented throughout his stay in the eyes of the public.
