M.C. Swag said:
Dude seriously just google it. He's said all kinds of racist **** including the promotion of the Great Replacement Theory. On top of that he's incredibly misogynistic and mocked other acts of political violence (paul pelosi). Like take your ****ing pick.
Well I saw you just put up your own examples, so good for you to sticking to it. I did some research of my own to see what I could find out. I previously took this on thinking that you weren't going to.
To be transparent, I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was before he was assassinated. That isn't meant to belittle him or anyone who admires him, just letting you know that I didn't have a preconceived notion of him before the last month. I've enjoyed some of his YouTube videos of him debating college kids on the open mic that have come up on my feed after his death, although some of that feels like LeBron James going to the playground and letting a bunch of 5th graders know he's ready to take them in a dunk contest.
Trans PeopleRegardless, I spent the last 20-30 minutes Googling as you suggested, and I didn't find a whole lot of stuff that I found really reprehensible. Most of his more over-the-top stuff seems to revolve around trans people, but my values pretty much align with his, especially on letting them use bathrooms in schools and play sports with the other gender. His quote about the doctors performing the procedures needing "Nuremberg-style trials" is over the top, considering the guys at Nuremburg were murdering millions of people or forcing them to live in sub-human conditions, but that seems like a pretty tame thing to get upset bout.
Gay People
From a personal standpoint, I don't like him saying that God's perfect law involves stoning gay people to death, but if he's a strict Bible-following Christian, I'm not going to deny his right to advocate for defending God's Word as perfection. Over the centuries since the Bible was recorded, there are plenty of things that we don't really adhere to anymore - slavery being probably the top 1, and the animal sacrifices - but while I feel tolerant to people who are gay, I can't say that I'm right and the Bible is wrong with any real sense of validation.
The Civil Rights ActTaken out of context, he seems like a giant a-hole, but from the extended version, it sounds like he's saying it make everything DEI. My limited experience is how every NFL team has to interview black candidate when they have a head coaching vacancy. It comes across as insulting to everyone from my POV.
Paul PelosiThis take is total trash and makes Kirk sound like a piece of **** for saying. Saying anything positive about someone attacking an 82-year old man with a hammer is way out of bounds and disgusting, regardless of who the guy is married to.
The RestMost of the other things that I found on Twitter or various websites are usually twisted versions of what he really said if you listen to him on a video or a podcast. But that's sort of the problem all over, isn't it? It's the old fashion game of Telephone on a global, real-time scale. What the person actually said versus what the next person tweets they said are rarely the same thing, and the farther the message travels, the more warped it gets.
Just so it doesn't seem like I'm doubting you and championing Kirk's side, the same thing can be said about the Biden "racial jungle" quote which I think is on TexAgs more often than the word "Texas" or the word "Aggie".
He's purported to say: "I don't want my children to grow up in a jungle, a racial jungle."
But what he really said is: "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
Quite a bit different, but that's never the way it gets used in an online forum. You can see the
exact verbiage here if you need to independently confirm. There's also the fact that he said this thing while talking about school buses and he said it in 1977, when most of you (but not me) weren't even alive yet.
Anyway, just my 2 cents on a slow Tuesday.