The death of Charlie Kirk has caused a firestorm around gun rights, freedom of speech, and political violence. The MAGA cult and right-wingers across social media have immortalized the right-wing podcaster. Using the death of the Turning Point USA founder, the Trump Administration has continued to rally against left and progressive organizations. He has been attacking liberal and left-leaning individuals or organizations since his first term in office. Hell, Trump just signed an executive order labeling anti-fascists as a terrorist organization. I have never received an invitation to the Antifa global headquarters, but I’m eagerly awaiting one.
They nationally televised Charlie Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona in September 2025. His memorial was a mix of a Klan rally meets WrestleMania. Pyrotechnics, cheers, mindless USA chants, and long-winded promos, I mean political speeches by Donald Trump, human ghoul Stephen Miller, and Kirk’s widow and Alt-Right Barbie, Erika Kirk. Hey kids, remember you can’t spell Erika Kirk without three K’s. As a Navy veteran, I’m all about freedom of speech. Still, there are consequences of saying what you want to, especially at the expense of marginalized groups. Kirk made a career out of demonizing marginalized people and groups.
Many of Charlie Kirk’s views were deplorable, despite what his defenders would say. Let’s look at some of his rhetoric.
Here’s what he had to say about black women:
“If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023
On black people:
“Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.”
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023
On women’s rights:
“Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”
– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025
On the 2nd Amendment:
‘I think it’s worth it 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.’
– Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023
Kirk himself said these words, although his defenders and supporters will say someone took the quotes out of context. But he was a Christian Fascist, and they’re gonna be fascists. Idiots online have been posting AI videos and photos of Charlie juxtaposed with King and Malcolm X, which is horrible because it compares a bigoted podcaster, who made a living “debating” teenagers who founded a national high school group for Teen Republicans, to iconic Civil Rights leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
The United States is the land of the gun and the dumb. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States. So, USA #1! Charlie Kirk’s death resulted from the chickens coming home to roost. He died in an act of a white-on-white crime. A rival MAGA gang member murdered him. But now Charlie’s death is being used for state propaganda to crush any political dissent against the Trump administration and its acolytes. It’s funny because the United States always says that countries like North Korea, China, and Russia don’t have freedom. According to some Americans, even though many Americans haven’t traveled to these countries, their citizens can’t do basic things like grocery shopping, using the restroom, or protesting without being imprisoned.
Following Kirk’s death, people were fired and lost their jobs because they criticized him. Even though Kirk said horrible things, he got people attacked and harassed by his supporters. The right wing, which stated that freedom of speech is the most sacred thing ever, is cancelling people for exercising their free speech. It’s just that they didn’t like to hear that their guy was a terrible human being who used his cache and political clout to sow hatred.
It’s no surprise that in his death, Charlie Kirk is being immortalized and his legacy is being rewritten and whitewashed. The United States has always lionized terrible white men. The founding fathers of the United States were a class of racist, genocidal slave owners. They stole the land from indigenous people, enslaved black Africans, and created a nation for rich white men by rich white men. The irony is that they wanted freedom and liberty for themselves, but the hell with the poor, women, black slaves, and Native Americans. This isn’t revisionist history; it’s historical fact.
Many states still celebrate Christopher Columbus Day. A man who was a genocidal monster who didn’t discover the Americas since there were millions of Native Americans already living here when he first stepped on the shores of what would become Haiti. The man was a serial killer.
“Even for the time (the 15th century was a particularly brutal era), Columbus displayed a cruel streak. On the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the local indigenous people were kind and generous to the new arrivals. Columbus recognized their openness as a weakness and suggested subjugating the locals, controlling and exploiting them horribly. Originally planning to bring Christianity to the new lands, he realized you can’t enslave Christians, and so religion took a back seat. His behavior became so barbaric that the Spanish authorities actually intervened, and Columbus was eventually arrested. As Sara points out: “The real religious zealots are the ones that end up doing the grossest stuff.”
It’s no wonder the United States has a sick cultural obsession with white serial killers. There are countless movies, shows, and documentaries about serial killers. Many of these media portrayals low-key glorify these monsters as devious and brilliant men who evaded capture for years. Hollywood has cast leading men to portray infamous killers in movies and TV roles, such as Zac Efron playing notorious killer Ted Bundy or Charlie Hunnam playing the evil serial killer Ed Gein.
The United States has always elevated mediocre bigots and genocidal maniacs. We have monuments to the Confederacy all across the nation, even though they lost the goddamn Civil War. Still, you gotta let those pesky Negroes know that ‘the South Shall Rise Again!” But what do you expect from a system created by terrible slave owners? They’ll continue to honor and lionize the worst types of people? It’s even sadder that there’s a rainbow coalition of Nazis in the United States celebrating Charlie Kirk like he’s the most extraordinary man to exist since White Jesus!
Is it bad that he got shot? Yes, but he used violent rhetoric and got taken off the census by one of his own. I should feel bad that someone took a life, but Kirk said empathy was a made-up new age term. In his life, he had no empathy or sympathy for those who looked like me, my wife, or my black family and community. He peddled racist, homophobic, and sexist tropes. Now Big Brother wants us to blindly honor a man who spent his life hating others to glorify the system of white supremacy and unchecked capitalism.
To quote Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s eldest daughter, WWE star Ava Raine.
“If you want people to have kind words when you pass, you should say kind words when you’re alive,” the WWE star added, “and I’ll stand behind this. be kind, now more than ever.”
Charlie Kirk wasn’t kind to those who disagreed with him or who came from a different racial or religious background than he did when he was alive. So, why should I have any kind words for him in the wake of his untimely death?
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