The death of Charlie Kirk was tragic, especially because he was in the act of the exchange of ideas with student at a college. But now he’s a Christian nationalist martyr and Trump – following the autocrat’s playbook – is exploiting his death as an excuse to abuse power to crackdown on critical news commentators and outlets.
Kirk’s history included conspiracy theories, and angry, racist, demeaning comments about people:
When Nancy Pelosi’s elderly husband was nearly murdered, Kirk said the attack was awful, but called on some “amazing patriot” to bail out his attacker. Kirk questioned if black pilots or surgeons were qualified, stated that accomplished Black women “do not have the brain processing power” to be taken seriously and had stolen a white person’s slot, and that “MLK was awful” and a “bad guy.”
Kirk also said the (racist) “Great Replacement Theory” is replacing white rural America and that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge mistake. He promoted “Stop the Steal” conspiracies in 2020, said that George Floyd – publicly-murdered by a police officer, – died of an “overdose, and that “Prowling blacks go around for fun to go target white people.”
Kirk believed gay men should be stoned to death, that doctors providing gender-affirming care need “Nuremberg-style” trials, and abortion is “worse” than the Holocaust. See his hits on the Seneca Project on YouTube at bit.ly/46Nll7l.
Mr. Kirk successfully stirred and exploited division and hate to generate attention and to promote himself. Maybe he was the new “Christian” in America. He should be nobody’s hero – unless of course you’re a white Christian nationalist.
Thomas Williamson
Durango
