Why are CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS and legacy media pundits praising and cannonizing a misogynist racist?

More Charlie Kirk Racist Quotes

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

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

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

Actual quotes from Charlie Kirk.

1. “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.”

Pseudo-patriotic, fatalistic nonsense. What is he saying? Gun owners can use their guns to protect their 1st Amend. free speech rights? By shooting who?

Gun owners can use their guns to protect their 4th Amend. search and seizure rights?

By shooting who? How do gun owners use the 2nd Amendment to protect their 5th Amend. rights? By shooting who?

2. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

Racism.

3. “Martin Luther King Jr. was awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.”

Racism.

4. “George Floyd is a scumbag.”

Racism.

5. “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like ‘boy, I hope he is qualified.’”

Racism.

6. “Islam is not compatible with western civilization.”

Islamophobia.

7. “Birth control has made women angry and bitter.”

Misogyny

8. “Females over 30 aren’t attractive in the dating pool.”

Misogyny

9. “We can’t have Muslims in positions of power; their values clash with ours.”

Islamophobia

10. “[Black women like] Joy Reid, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Shiela Jackson Lee, and Michelle Obama... used affirmative action because they do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously... so they had to steal a white person's slot."

Racism.

11. “Israel has every right to flatten Gaza if it means securing their borders.”

Violent Islamophobia, Zionist Supremacy.

12. “DEI is reverse racism. It’s discrimination against white people, plain and simple.”

Racism. White Supremacy.

13. “Feminism has tricked women into thinking they don’t need men or families.”

Misogyny.

14. “You can’t separate Islam from terrorism; it’s baked into their ideology.”

Islamophobic hate speech.

15. “The idea of white privilege is nonsense. Everyone has the same opportunities if they work hard.”

Denialism. White Supremacy.

16. When asked by a 14 year old girl what she should aim to study at university, he stated, “Interestingly, I think there is an argument to bring back the MRS degree. No, seriously. And just be clear that’s why you’re going to college, right? Don’t lie to yourself, like, ‘Agh, I’m going, I’m studying sociology.’ No you’re not, we know why you’re here and that’s okay!” He said that college is a “scam” but a good place to find a life partner, where “you will find a husband, if you have the intent to find a husband.”

Misogyny.

17. “The young women who are supporting Kamala Harris right now, they want careers. They don’t want kids.”

Misogyny.

18. “The gay agenda, as it’s so-called, is not about equality, it’s about dismantling the traditional family and Western civilization.” He has also described same-sex marriage and the broader LGBTQ+ movement as “destructive to the social fabric.”

Homophobic hate speech.

19. "I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.”

Sociopathy.

20. In a July 2025 post on X, he stated, “No, Israel is not starving Gazans.” Kirk celebrated the death of Palestinian children and defended Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

Denialism. Islamophobia. Supports Jewish Supremacy and state-sponsored war crimes.

21. “The “Great Replacement” is not a theory. It’s a fact, and it is happening.”

Racism, White Supremacy.

22. “Palestine doesn’t exist. It’s called Judea and Samaria.”

Islamophobia. Supports Jewish Supremacy.

23. “We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country. Donald Trump needs to run on this issue.” none of his business, between a person and their doctor

These are quotes. Not out of context. These are his beliefs and worldviews.

Do these really align with Christianity?

““Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.””

He rose to prominence during the first Trump administration through his podcast, cable news appearances and campus speaking tours.

His views were often viewed as controversial. As an anti-abortion Christian, he routinely debated progressive liberals, Muslims, and the LGBT+ community, resulting in allegations of misogyny, Islamophobia, and homophobia.

During the Covid pandemic, he denounced mask mandates. He referred to vaccine requirements as “medical apartheid” and also promoted Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” against him by a vast Democratic conspiracy.

Kirk frequently adopted Trumpian talking points, blaming DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) hiring practices for flooding in Texas earlier this year, calling New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “a parasite” and attempting to steer the national conversation away from Jeffrey Epstein by announcing he was “done” with the subject.

Here is a closer look at where he stood on some of the most pivotal issues of the day.

Gun control

The Turning Point founder was addressing the subject of gun violence when he was fatally shot in Utah.

Kirk was known to be a gun owner himself and regularly spoke out on the issue, including on behalf of the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018.

At a Turning Point event in Salt Lake City in April 2023, he said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

LGBT+ rights

Kirk adopted a traditional Christian conservative stance in his approach to many contemporary issues, telling an audience at a Trump election rally in Georgia last fall that Democrats “stand for everything God hates” and adding: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”

He also lashed out at the gay community, denouncing what he called the “LGBTQ agenda,” expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and suggesting that the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13, which endorses the execution of homosexuals, serves as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

“I don’t agree with your lifestyle,” Kirk told a gay Wisconsin college student last September. “I don’t think you should introduce yourself just based on your sexuality because that’s not who you are.”

He also argued against gender-affirming care for transgender people and insisted there are only two genders, sporting a T-shirt at one Arizona rally last year that read: “xy = man.”

More recently, he discussed the burning of Pride flags, writing on X (Twitter): “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.

“It should be legal to burn a rainbow or [Black Lives Matter] flag in public.”

The future of the country

Kirk was a firm believer in Trump’s “America First” message, and the president paid solemn tribute to him on Wednesday, ordering flags at the White House lowered to half-staff in his memory and saying: “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.”

Vice President JD Vance, war secretary Pete Hegseth, and health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. were just some of the senior administration figures to join him in expressing their grief, revealing how highly they thought of Kirk and how entwined his values were with theirs.

Kirk was uncomfortable with U.S. intervention in foreign wars, notably dismissing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “border dispute,” but remained a vocal supporter of Israel.

He did not always slavishly follow the president’s line, however, breaking with him in June over the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities and reminding him on Newsmax: “Not even the Romans conquered Persia.”

D.L. Hugley: "I certainly don't believe a 31-year old man should have lost his life, but Charlie Kirk was a horrible human being. He said horribly incendiary things.

The very last words he spoke was him putting the onus of gun violence on black people.

The very way he died was lying about black people with his last breath."

MAGA blames SouthPark for Kirk's assassination

Charlie on gender, feminism and reproductive rights

Kirk discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement: "Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge."

The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025

Kirk was asked if he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape?

Kirk said no, the baby would be delivered. 8 September 2024

Kirk: "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately." The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024

Charlie on immigration

America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.

The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.

The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024

On Islam

America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.

The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025

We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.

The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025

Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.

Charlie Kirk social media post, 8 September 2025

On religion

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

On debate

We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.

The Great Irony and Senseless Killing of Charlie Kirk

The murder of Charlie Kirk was a senseless killing.

But for guns in America, Charlie Kirk would still be alive.

The great irony of his death is that Charlie was not killed by those who were the targets of Charlie's racist, misogynist invective, but was killed by another racist misogynist for not being racist and misogynist enough.

What should be the lesson learned in this instance?

Should the lesson learned be that Charlie Kirk should have toned down his speech in order to avoid angering others?

No, I don't think so.

Thomas Jefferson said the solution or answer to free speech that you don't like or approve of is not to stifle such speech, but to respond in kind.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson: If you hear speech you don't like, don't shut the speaker down, but simply respond in kind - exercise your right to free speech.

So what should be the lesson learned in this instance?

The painfully obvious lesson to be learned is that We The People should ban semi-automatic hand guns and semi-automatic rifles.

FBI gun crime statistics indicate that every year semi-automatic hand guns are used in nearly two-thirds of all nationwide gun crime in America.

Semi-automatic rifles comprise about 3% of all gun crime annually, while bolt-action, non-repeating rifles comprise less than one-tenth of one per cent of all nationwide gun crime.

If you are ever shot in America, there's a 65-75% chance that you will be shot with a semi-automatic hand gun.

A person armed with a semi-automatic hand gun can conceal the gun in his or her jacket and within one or two seconds can pull it out and shoot you instantly.

No one - and I do mean no person, no group or agency will ever be able to predict and stop instant gun crime, period.

America is an extremely dangerous place because our streets and towns are flooded every 12 months with over four million guns by U.S. gun manufacturers.

Red flag laws, background checks, safe storage laws do little to nothing about the real gun problem in America; and that's the problem of widespread availability of guns in our streets and communities.

Red flag laws, background checks, safe storage laws have no effect on U.S. gunmakers dumping over four million guns annually across America.

Occam's Razor applies in this instance, as the actual solution to widespread availability of guns is to ban semi-automatic hand guns and rifles, institute strong confiscation programs and laws; and conduct gun buyback programs.

Charlie Kirk said: "I think we could bring back public executions on certain people.

It should be public.

It should be quick.

It should be televised.

It could be....brought to you by Coca-Cola. I'm not kidding."

Why was Charlie Kirk so popular with Trump and Republicans?

Kirk was popular with Trump and Republicans because Charlie Kirk had the courage to openly exercise his free speech rights, as unpopular and offensive Kirk's speech may be to the target of his invective.

Thanks to the First Amendment unpopular speech is protected as much as popular speech is protected.

So why did CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS give Charlie Kirk praise usually reserved for non-racists and non-misogynists?

Because CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS are owned and operated by wealthy, well-situated Charlie Kirk fans.

Why was Charlie Kirk so popular with Trump and Republicans?

Kirk was popular with Trump and Republicans because Charlie Kirk had the courage to openly exercise his free speech rights, as unpopular and offensive Kirk's speech may be to the target of his invective.

Thanks to the First Amendment unpopular speech is protected as much as popular speech is protected.

So why did CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS give Charlie Kirk praise usually reserved for non-racists and non-misogynists?

Because CNN, MSNBC, FOXNEWS are owned and operated by wealthy, well-situated Charlie Kirk fans.

Video of Charlie Kirk saying, "I think we could bring back public executions on certain people. It should be public. It should be quick. It should be televised. [It could be] ...brought to you by Coca-Cola. I'm not kidding."

What's crazy is this kind of senseless targeted shooting could happen again next week, next month, or for years to come. Why? Because Republicans refuse to ban guns.

Apparently Republicans share Kirk's belief that some gun deaths are worth it to protect our God-given rights.

I don't know that a post-assassination Charlie Kirk would still believe that some gun deaths are worth it to, "protect our God-given rights."

To make matters worse, about 40% of America is racist and don't know or believe they are racist.

MAGA and conservatives believe they enjoy a God-given right to discriminate against people they don't like. That's why rightwing racists do not believe they are racist or say racist things

Several historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) said Thursday they have received campus threats, a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University.

Hampton University, Virginia State University, Bethune Cookman University (BCU), Southern University, and Alabama State University are all on lockdown after receiving threats, according to officials.