RIP The Whitewashing of Charlie Kirk

It's absolutely awful what happened to Charlie Kirk, but enough with the whitewashing. Two things can be true at once: 1) Kirk's assassination was a grave tragedy and 2) Kirk was an awful person. That doesn't mean he deserved to die. He didn't. But it also doesn't mean he deserves to be treated like a saint. He wasn't. 

Here are just a few of his quotes:

- “We must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty... We need to be very clear that you’re not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. But I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment."

- “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.”

- “They (Black people) were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes.”

- “The answer is yes. The baby would be delivered.” (If he had a 10-year-old daughter, who got impregnated via rape)

- “A man who calls himself trans is wearing ‘woman face,’ no different than I would wear Black face trying to be a Black person. It’s assuming an identity that isn’t yours.”

- "Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously."

- “This is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative. Engage in reality more… Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” (after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged)

- “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”

- “Democrat women want to die alone without children.”

- “Thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just saying... The chapter...affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matter.”

- "I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." 

- "It is a growing consensus in the pro-life world that abortion is never medically necessary."

- "Young women, they don't value having children. Trump voters, young men, they want family, children and legacy. Young women who voted for Kamala Harris, they want careerism, consumerism and loneliness." 

- "I can't wait to go to a Taylor Kelce concert. You've got to change your name. If not, you don't really mean it."

- "There's a direct connection to inflation and the trans issue. You say, Charlie, come on. They couldn't be further apart. No, they're exactly the same. They're the same in this aspect—when you believe that men can become women, why wouldn't you also believe that you could print wealth? If you believe that someone can change their gender, why wouldn't you also believe that money is wealth?"

- “We should work to overturn every conviction for those arrested, fined, or otherwise harassed for the ‘hate crime’ of doing donuts over Pride flags painted on public streets."

- "Her daughter all of a sudden came home and said, 'I'm a boy.' She said, 'what?' And the whole assembly line, the conveyor belt was started to grind. They wanted to give her cross-sex hormones. They wanted to give her testosterone therapy. They wanted to cut off her breasts. They wanted to do all these sorts of things, and these doctors do this without any thought whatsoever. Yeah. Sure. Here's the script. Here's the clinic. Go here. Go for surgery. These doctors need to be put in prison quickly. We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately."

- "Cis is a slur. 'Sex assigned at birth' is a logical fallacy. Gender Affirming Care is child mutilation. Minor Attracted Persons are pedophiles. Trans is a mental delusion. Reclaim the language they stole from us."

- “There are hundreds of peaceful people that went into the Capitol on January 6. They did not touch a police officer. They didn’t smash a window, but they have been charged federally for trespassing and called insurrectionists for the rest of their life. ... They should have stripped naked and filmed themselves having gay sex."

- "Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry."