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This is what it really boils down to. Life is to short to argue semantics. I loved Charlies quick wit followed with truth. Not his truth, but the truth of the Holy Spirit in Charlie. Which, BTW something Charlie would repeat from time to time.

I have observed many people reciting over and over the same denigration about Charlie, almost word for word.


Since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media users have shared posts showing, quoting or paraphrasing remarks the posts attribute to the conservative activist. Many readers have asked us to provide the facts on whether Kirk, the founder of the youth political group Turning Point USA, made several of these comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll review some of the statements that our readers asked about and correct a viral social media post that got what Kirk said wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he did say many of the statements, some have been misrepresented or not presented with full context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

False Claim of an Asian Slur<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A popular post on X incorrectly claimed that Kirk used a slur for Asian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat time Charlie Kirk called an Asian woman in the audience \u2018c\u2014-\u2019 multiple times,\u201d the post<\/a> reads, spelling out the slur in full, and accompanied by a montage video from TikTok. \u201cHe made millions off of his racism and sexism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video, however, does not show Kirk using the slur. Rather, as an X Community Note explains, Kirk was shouting at Cenk Uygur, a co-host of the Young Turks, a progressive online news show, and using his first name. The two men were at Politicon, an annual nonpartisan political convention, in October 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI live like a capitalist every single day, Cenk!\u201d Kirk said<\/a> angrily to Uygur, after Uygur interrupted a debate Kirk was having with the Young Turks\u2019 Hasan Piker about what political views young people should have. \u201cCome on, Cenk, let\u2019s go,\u201d he said later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Examiner reported<\/a> on the exchange at the time, and the Young Turks also posted a clip<\/a> to YouTube, along with the full debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In less than two days, the inaccurate post was viewed more than 16 million times on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Civil Rights Act<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Multiple readers forwarded us a viral graphic that makes reference to things Kirk said about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Jewish people, gay people and the Second Amendment. We\u2019ll get to the last three in a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk did say that it was a \u201chuge mistake\u201d to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the National Archives explains<\/a>, the law \u201cprohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kirk speaks at the 2025 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Florida. Photo by Gage Skidmore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to a 2024 Wired story<\/a>, Kirk made the remarks in December 2023 during America Fest, Turning Point\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I\u2019ve thought about it,\u201d the story quoted Kirk as saying. \u201cWe made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kirk\u2019s view, the story explained, the Civil Rights Act has led to a \u201cpermanent DEI-type bureaucracy,\u201d referring to diversity, equity and inclusion, that has limited free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story also quoted Kirk as saying that Martin Luther King Jr. was \u201cawful. He\u2019s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn\u2019t believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those comments are not available in the recordings<\/a> posted<\/a> to YouTube of the conference that year. The reporter who wrote the Wired story, however, confirmed to us that while attending the event as a journalist, he had witnessed the remarks, which were made not on the main stage, but in a smaller conference room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk also did not dispute the statement when he responded to an email<\/a> from Wired the day before<\/a> the story was published. Reading from the email, Kirk interjected to say that it was \u201ctrue\u201d that he had described King as \u201ca bad guy\u201d and \u201calso true\u201d that it was his \u201cself-described very, very radical view that the country made a mistake when it passed the Civil Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the email asked why Kirk believes passing the legislation was a mistake, Kirk said, \u201cNow, again, apparently, they don\u2019t listen to the show. Because we do that at least once a week, right? Once a week, we talk about why the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days later, Kirk released an 82-minute podcast episode titled, \u201cThe Myth of MLK,\u201d which in part discusses \u201chow the \u2018MLK Myth\u2019 keeps America shackled to destructive 1960s laws that have replaced the original U.S. Constitution,\u201d according to the summary description<\/a> on the podcast\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that year, Kirk echoed similar sentiments about the Civil Rights Act. The legislation, he said<\/a> on his podcast in April 2024, \u201ccreated a beast, and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Jewish Money\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The viral graphic alleges that Kirk, who was a strong supporter<\/a> of Israel but had been accused of antisemitism numerous times during his career, \u201cblamed \u2018Jewish money\u2019 for ruining American culture.\u201d We did not immediately find instances of Kirk using the specific phrase \u201cJewish money,\u201d but he repeatedly made similar remarks regarding the funding of liberal causes or institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeks after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel in 2023, Kirk argued<\/a> in an Oct. 26 episode of his podcast that Jews had funded antisemitism in the U.S. by supporting liberal causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJewish donors have a lot of explaining to do. A lot of decoupling to do,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause Jewish donors have been the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border neoliberal quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits. This is a beast created by secular Jews. And now it\u2019s coming for Jews, and they\u2019re like, \u2018What on Earth happened?\u2019 And it\u2019s not just the colleges. It\u2019s the nonprofits, it\u2019s the movies, it\u2019s Hollywood, it\u2019s all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About two weeks later, Kirk again<\/a> made a similar argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years. Stop supporting causes that hate you,\u201d he said on his podcast. \u201cUntil you cleanse that ideology from the hierarchy in the academic elite of the West, there will not be a safe future. I\u2019m not going to say Israel won\u2019t exist, but Israel will be in jeopardy as long as the Western children, children of the West, are being taught, with primarily Jewish dollars, subsidizing it, to view everything through oppressor\/ oppressed dynamic. Until you shed that ideology, you will not be able to build the case for Israel, because they view Israel as an oppressor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another podcast 10 days after that, Kirk returned to the topic when defending<\/a> Elon Musk from complaints of antisemitism, agreeing with part of a controversial X post that Musk had called \u201cthe actual truth.\u201d Kirk also said he agreed with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that Jewish Americans \u201chave primarily been financing cultural Marxist ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of the largest financiers of left-wing, anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans,\u201d Kirk said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same episode, Kirk rejected complaints that he was antisemitic, saying that in earlier episodes he had said he was \u201cglad that Jewish Americans are reconsidering their financing of cultural Marxism, and people misunderstood it intentionally and slandered us as being antisemites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCultural Marxism\u201d is considered by some, including<\/a> the Southern Poverty Law Center, as an antisemitic conspiracy theory. At its most extreme, it refers to the idea that a small group of Jewish immigrants in the U.S. worked to subvert Christian culture in America and spread progressive values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phrase sometimes is \u201ca colloquial analogy for political correctness\u201d and is \u201coften used, without antisemitic intention, to describe liberals, progressive movements and others,\u201d the Antisemitism Policy Trust, a U.K. nonprofit, explained in a 2020 briefing<\/a>. \u201cHowever, in reality, it is a shadowy term openly used by antisemites, neo-Nazis and others with nefarious intentions.\u201d The group \u201cstrongly recommends\u201d that people avoid using the phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gay People<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The graphic goes on to say of Kirk, \u201cHe said gay people are \u2018destructive\u2019 and endorsed having them put to death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source is not clear, as we couldn\u2019t find anything relevant that used the \u201cdestructive\u201d word. But part of that claim could be a reference to something Kirk said while discussing comments about passages in the Bible made by Rachel Anne Accurso, better known as the YouTube personality Ms. Rachel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a June 8, 2024, episode<\/a> of his podcast (at around the 1:00:00 mark), Kirk reacted to Accurso posting a video<\/a> in which she cited Bible scripture to explain why she had wished<\/a> a \u201cHappy Pride\u201d that month to people in the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy faith is really important to me, and it\u2019s also one reason why I love every neighbor,\u201d she said in her video. \u201cIn Matthew 22, a religious teacher asked Jesus, what\u2019s the most important commandment? And Jesus says, to love God and to \u2018love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019\u201d \u201cIt doesn\u2019t say love every neighbor except,\u201d she went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his reply<\/a>, Kirk said Accurso left out something else the Bible says. \u201cShe\u2019s not totally wrong,\u201d Kirk said. \u201cThe first part is Deuteronomy 6:3\u20135. The second part is Leviticus 19. So you love God, so you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued: \u201cAnd it says, by the way, Ms. Rachel, might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God\u2019s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After backlash from Kirk supporters, the author Stephen King, who had posted on X<\/a> on Sept. 11 that Kirk had \u201cadvocated stoning gays to death,\u201d retracted<\/a> his claim and apologized. King said<\/a>, \u201cWhat [Kirk] actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second Amendment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the graphic says, \u201cHe said the 2nd amendment is worth the cost of \u2018some gun deaths.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk did say that at a TPUSA Faith event<\/a> in Utah on April 5, 2023. The event was held days after three children and three adults were killed in a school shooting in Nashville<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video from the event shows Kirk being asked by an audience member how to make the point that protecting the Second Amendment is important. Kirk responded that the amendment \u201cis there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government.\u201d But \u201chaving an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won\u2019t have a single gun death,\u201d Kirk later said. \u201cThat is nonsense. It\u2019s drivel. But I am \u2014 I think it\u2019s worth it. I think it\u2019s 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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Pelosi Attack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another reader asked, presumably based on other online posts, \u201cWhen Nancy Pelosi\u2019s husband was attacked with a hammer, did Kirk encourage his audience to contribute to bail out [the] attacker?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, he did. In the Oct. 31, 2022, episode<\/a> of his show (at around 53:00 in the video), Kirk said the attack on Paul Pelosi was \u201cawful\u201d and \u201cnot right,\u201d but he said that someone should bail out the assailer, David DePape, because cashless bail policies in certain cities allowed other people to commit crimes and be released from custody pending trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd why is he still in jail? Why has he not been bailed out?\u201d Kirk asked<\/a>. \u201cBy the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out. I bet his bail\u2019s like 30[,000] or 40,000 bucks. Bail him out, and then go ask him some questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not qualifying it. I think it\u2019s awful. It\u2019s not right,\u201d Kirk said about the attack on Pelosi, who suffered a skull fracture<\/a> after being hit in the head with a hammer. \u201cBut why is it that in Chicago you\u2019re able to commit murder and be out the next day? Why is it that you\u2019re able to trespass, second-degree murder, arson, threaten a public official, cashless bail. This happens all over San Francisco. But if you go after the Pelosis, oh, you\u2019re [not] let out immediately. Got it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the attack on Oct. 28, 2022, DePape was arrested and placed on a federal hold. He was later convicted on assault- and kidnapping-related charges in separate federal<\/a> and state trials<\/a>, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge and life in prison without parole by a state judge. DePape told<\/a> officers he intended to apprehend then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was not at her San Francisco home when DePape broke in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for cashless bail in Chicago, we\u2019ve written<\/a> that an Illinois law that went into effect in September 2023 eliminated cash bail for all offenses, but still allows judges to detain a person because of the nature of the crime, or because the person is considered a flight risk or poses a threat to \u201cany other person or the community.\u201d



These descriptions are used inter-actively describe Charlie, or anyone else on the right, as a racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist,” because of his scathing criticism<\/a> of the Civil Rights Act, the gay rights movement and feminism. It’s all name calling. Charlie went to task and offered a great platform for debate.

It is time to stop confusing diversity with mental-illness.

Iryna Zarutska<\/strong> was a victim of a heinous crime
George Floyd<\/strong> was a career criminal and reaped what he sowed.
Charlie Kirk<\/strong> is a Christian American martyr.

What we say, and the company we keep is very important. Jesus is the Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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