From: clare@snyder.on.ca
On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:18:52 -0000 (UTC), Barry Watts wrote:
> Charlie Kirk was a despicable, privileged, agent of hate, intolerance,
>bigotry and racism, who advocated for the sacrifice of innocent children on
>the alter of an infantile gun rights interpretation.
>From Wikipedia:
>Promotion of falsehoods and conspiracy theories
>According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college
>education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories."[38] Kirk promoted
>the antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, and described
>universities as "islands of totalitarianism."
>In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that
>he had applied to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New
>York, and was not accepted.[13] He said that "the slot he considered his
>went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a
>different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew. He told The
>New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it. He told
>the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been
>told",[5][41] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand
>Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.
>In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department
>statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in
>the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018. He deleted the tweet
>without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out
>that the false 2018 number had originated on a conspiracy site 8chan.[42]
>[43]
>In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow
>vests movement chanted, "We want Trump." These false claims were later
>repeated by President Trump himself.[44]
>Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud[45][46] and the COVID-19 pandemic.
>[38] In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19
>pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that, during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, it
>"took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to
>declare a public health emergency.[47][48]
>COVID-19 misinformation
>Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on
>social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020. Kirk sharply criticized
>Democrats' criticism of Donald Trump's withdrawal of World Health
>Organization (WHO) funding and referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus",
>which was retweeted by Trump.[8]
>Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19
>pandemic. He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that
>hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus";
>[8] he alleged that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan,
>threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[8] These falsehoods
>were retweeted by Rudy Giuliani whose account was then suspended by Twitter
>as well.[8][49] Kirk also described the public health measure of social
>distancing prohibitions in churches as a "Democratic plot against
>Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan,
>China, were burning patients.[8] In 2020, Kirk said that he refused to
>abide by mask requirements, stating that "the science around masks is very
>questionable."[38][50]
>In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety
>of COVID-19 vaccines.[18] On Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, Kirk called
>mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine "medical
>apartheid".[51]
>Election fraud claims and the 2021 United States Capitol attack
>Immediately after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Kirk
>promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.[52][53] On
>November 5, 2020, Kirk was the leader of a Stop the Steal protest at the
>Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.[54]
>Charlie Kirk was considered a "big name" social influencer in Rudy
>Giuliani's communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.[55]
>On January 5, 2021, the day before the Washington, D.C., protest that led
>to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Kirk wrote on Twitter that
>Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80
>"buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president".[56][57][58] A
>spokesman for Turning Point said that the groups ended up sending seven
>buses, not 80, with 350 students.[56][59] In the lead-up to the storming,
>Kirk said he was "getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war."[60]
>Publix heiress Julie Fancelli gave Charlie Kirk's organizations $1.25
>million to fund the buses to the January 6 event. Kirk also paid $60,000
>for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the Trump rally.[61]
>Afterward, Kirk said the violent acts at the Capitol were not an
>insurrection and did not represent mainstream Trump supporters.[62][63]
>Appearing before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6
>Attack, Charlie Kirk pleaded the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-
>incrimination. His team however "provided the committee with 8,000 pages of
>records in response to its requests."[64] In another closed-door meeting of
>the House January 6 Committee, Ali Alexander blamed Kirk and Turning Point
>USA for financing the travel of demonstrators to the Stop the Steal rally.
>[65]
>Climate change
>Kirk consistently supported the extraction and use of fossil fuels. He was
>a climate change denialist, claiming that humans have no significant effect
>on global climate change.[6][66][67]
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk
Political violence of any kind, by either side, cannot be condoned -
but if it was going to happen to anyone I guess there could have been
worse targets.
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