Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

For so many reasons, I wish with all my heart that Charlie Kirk had never been assassinated. Violence will only lead to more violence and is never the answer. 

Such chilling times that we live in. And one part of how I am getting through these traumatic times is to stay connected with the truth-tellers, the wisdom-keepers, the activists and visionaries, the authors and artists, and all those who never gave up illuminating — and in so many different ways — what we most need to know, absorb, understand, and be inspired and transformed by. And certainly among those who I am so grateful to remain connected with over all these years is Chris Hedges. Deepest bow to his courage, integrity, and relentless and profound commitment to truth. May we all be inspired to dive deep in our search for truth, compassion, wisdom ... and to refuse again and again to return dehumanization and hatred with more of the same. — Molly

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Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

By Chris Hedges

The assassination of Charlie Kirk presages a new, deadly stage in the disintegration of a fractious and highly polarized United States. While toxic rhetoric and threats are lobbed across cultural divides like hand grenades, sometimes spilling over into actual violence — including the murder of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband and the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump — Kirk’s killing is a harbinger of full-scale social disintegration.

His murder has given the movement he represented — grounded in Christian nationalism — a martyr. Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

Martyrs sacralize violence. They are used to turn the moral order upside down. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities become heroism. Crime becomes justice. Hate becomes virtue. Greed and nepotism become civic virtues. Murder becomes good. War is the final aesthetic. This is what is coming.

OREM, UTAH - SEPTEMBER 10: People run after shots were fired during an appearance by Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. (Photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

“We have to have steely resolve,” said conservative political strategist Steve Bannon on his show “War Room,” adding, “Charlie Kirk is a casualty of war. We are at war in this country. We are.”

“If they won’t leave us in peace, then our choice is to fight or die,” wrote Elon Musk on X.

“The entire Right has to band together. Enough of this in-fighting bullshit. We are up against demonic forces from the pit of Hell,” wrote commentator and author Matt Walsh on X. “Put the personal squabbles aside. Now’s not the time. This is existential. A fight for our own existence and the existence of our country.”

Republican Congressman Clay Higgins wrote that he will use, "Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk..." He further states "I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination."

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale capitalized on Kirk’s death to advocate for a takedown of the “red-green alliance” of “Communists and Islamists” who he claims have united to destroy Western civilization. He proposes an app where citizens can upload pictures of crime and homelessness in exchange for “property-tax rebates.”

Far-right comedian Sam Hyde, who has nearly half a million followers on X, wrote in response to Trump’s announcement of Kirk's death that it is, "Time to do your fucking job and seize power… if you want to be more than a footnote in the ‘American Collapse’ section of future history books, it's now or never.” In his tweet, he tags members of the administration and private military contractors.

Conservative actor James Woods warned, “Dear leftists: we can have a conversation or a civil war. One more shot from your side and you will not get this choice again.” His tweet was reposted by almost 20,000 people, received 4.9 million views and over 96,000 likes.

These are a sample of the slew of vitriolic sentiments shared and cheered on by tens of millions of Americans.

The dispossession of the working class, 30 million who have been laid off because of deindustrialization, has engendered rage, despair, dislocation, alienation and fostered magical thinking. It has fed conspiracy theories, a lust for vengeance and a celebration of violence as a purgative for social and cultural decay.

Christian fascists — like Kirk and Trump — have astutely preyed on this despair. They stoked the embers. Kirk’s killing will set it alight.

Dissidents, artists, gays, intellectuals, the poor, the vulnerable, people of color, those who are undocumented or who do not mindlessly repeat the cant of a perverted Christian nationalism, will be condemned as human contaminants to be excised from the body politic. They will become, as in all diseased societies, sacrificial victims in the vain attempt to achieve moral renewal and recapture a lost glory and prosperity.

The cannibalization of society, a futile attempt to recreate a mythical America, will accelerate the disintegration. The intoxication of violence — many of those reacting to Kirk’s killing seemed giddy about a looming bloodbath — will feed on itself like a firestorm.

The martyr is vital to the crusade, in this case ridding America of those Trump calls the “radical left.

Martyrs are memorialized in ceremonies and acts of remembrance to remind followers of the righteousness of the cause and the perfidy of those who are blamed for the martyr’s death. This is what Trump did when he called Kirk “a martyr for truth and freedom” in a video message on September 10, awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff until Sunday. It is why Kirk's casket will be flown back to Phoenix, Arizona on Air Force Two.

Kirk was a poster child for our emergent Christian Fascism. He peddled the Great Replacement Theory, which claims liberals or “globalists” allow immigrants of color into the country in order to replace whites, distorting immigration trends into conspiracy. He was Islamophobic, tweeting “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America,” and that it is “not compatible with western civilization.”

When children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel said “Jesus says to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself,” Kirk retorted that “Satan has quoted scripture plenty” and added “by the way Ms. Rachel, you might wanna crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall Lay with another man and be stoned to death.”

He demanded we roll back the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and disparaged civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King. He was demeaning towards Black people, “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman...is she there because of affirmative action?” He said “prowling Blacks” are targeting white people “for fun.” He blamed Black Lives Matter for “destroying the fabric of our society."

Kirk insisted the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. He founded Professor Watchlist and School Board Watchlist to purge professors and teachers with what he called “radical leftist” agendas. He advocated televised public executions which he insisted should be mandatory viewing for children.

The idea that he championed free speech and liberty is absurd. He was an enemy of both.

Kirk, who was a cheerleader for the cult of Trump, embodied the hypermasculinity that is at the core of fascist movements. This was perhaps his primary attraction to youth, especially white men. He claimed there is “a war on men,” fetishized guns and sold Trump to his followers as a man’s man.

“There’s a lot you can call Donald Trump,” he wrote. “No one has ever called him feminine. Trump is a giant middle finger to all the screeching hall monitors that attacked young men for just existing. He’s a giant F YOU to the feminist establishment that was never challenged before he came down the golden escalator. Most of the media missed this. Young men did not.”

History has shown what comes next. It won’t be pleasant. Kirk, elevated to martyrdom, gives those seeking to extinguish our democracy the license to kill, just as Kirk was killed. It lifts what few constraints still exist to protect us from state abuse and vigilante violence. Kirk’s name and visage will be employed to accelerate the road to tyranny, which is as he would have wanted it.

Please go here for the original article: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-martyrdom-of-charlie-kirk

‘The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk’: Journalist Chris Hedges on the Weaponization of Kirk’s Killing

 Such an important interview with Chris Hedges.

— Molly

Journalist Chris Hedges warns that President Trump and his allies are “weaponizing” the shocking assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to crush dissent.

“We’ve reached a very frightening turning point,” says Hedges. “We’ve already seen an assault on civil liberties, on institutions, universities, the media, that are tasked with maintaining an open society. That will now be accelerated.”

Even though authorities are still trying to determine a motive in the killing, Trump has blamed “radicals on the left” for political violence, and top White House adviser Stephen Miller vowed to dismantle many progressive organizations. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of shooting Kirk during a college event in Utah last week, grew up in a Republican family, and bullet casings found at the scene were engraved with references to various online and video games memes. Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox has claimed Robinson had “leftist ideology,” but did not share any evidence to support the claim. There has also also been speculation that Robinson may have been influenced by a far-right movement known as Groypers, which is tied to the white nationalist Nick Fuentes and had previously targeted Kirk for harassment.

Please go here for the original interview and transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/chris_hedges_charlie_kirk

Reflections On the Roots Of and the Antidotes To These Dangerously Polarizing Times

Photograph Source: DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos – Public Domain

These are profoundly polarizing times. There is so much dehumanization and anger and outrage and lashing out at the Other. Despair and fear drives many of our understandably painful reactions. As does the divisive and relentless propaganda of corporate funded mainstream media and the powerful within both major political parties which strive to shrink our realities down to the Democratic Party is bad and the Republican Party is good or vice versa. And I hear this anger and outrage. Deeply. And I also understand.

Following the horrors and devastation of the Bush Neocon Era, I went through my own very painful time early on during Obama’s first presidency. I’d worked to get him elected and believed 100%  in Obama and the promises he made. And then I blamed republicans for what I believed was their thwarting of his plans. It was all the republicans! I was angry!

And then some of those who I respect and trust and who I’ve been aware are more deeply informed than I am began challenging my beliefs, my truths, my reality. That’s when I first became introduced to neoliberalism, something that I’d never heard of before.

Over time I read and listened to and watched excellent films like this short documentary:

And the world as I knew it was falling apart. Again. And again. And for the first time I was clearly seeing the shadow side of the Democratic Party and the Neoliberalism that has been infecting most of those in positions of power within the Democratic Party for many years — and all of us here in the United States and beyond. 

Most Americans, like what was once true for me, do not know what neoliberalism is. And that is comparable to living in Russia and not knowing what communism is. It is the waters in which we swim. This time of lifting more of the the veils of the fog I'd unknowingly been in was deeply painful, disturbing, disillusioning, and humbling. And ultimately these experiences grew to be empowering for me as I came to recognize, understand, absorb, and be radically changed and transformed by the new information that I was learning.

Today what I am very aware of is that it is not just the Republican Party that holds responsibility for the nightmare of today. Yes, they are the political party that has become so toxic that it’s now fully embracing fascism. That said, everything doesn’t all boil down to Trump, who is a symptom of a much, much larger picture.

And while, yes, there are indeed corporate democrats who are calling out Trump, this is only occurring to a limited degree. What is being left out — by those democrats who are in the pockets of their wealthy donors — is the crucial role that their neoliberalism has played in ushering us into this horrifying Fascist Era. There is no deep dive into the reality and the roots of the profound despair of millions that has been driven and fueled by the policies and practices of both major political parties for decades.

The truth is that the roots of the peril that we are in today is not all on republicans. It isn't. It’s also on the corporate funded democrats who are aligned with and in the pockets of Wall Street and the Big Banks, the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, Netanyahu and AIPAC, and on and on. They are doing the bidding of their corporate donors rather than acting on behalf of We the People, our shared world, and the Planet.

There are those like Henry Giroux and Chris Hedges and many others who’ve been warning us for decades about what happening and what is coming. Henry Giroux, who wrote this piece that I will share below, is among the great worldwide recognized public intellectuals of our times. And Pulitzer Prize winning author, activist, independent journalist, and professor Chris Hedges has been offering us the deeper truths and larger pictures for decades. Their books line my bookshelves along with countless others who have helped me to shed layer after layer of my indoctrination and ignorance.

It takes what Chris calls “a profound commitment to truth” and a great deal of courage and support to root into the humbling process of replacing our illusions with truth. At least this has certainly been my experience. But as James Baldwin wisely stated, nothing will change until it is faced.

There is an imperative, I believe, that we take a deep dive and look deeper and deeper into the shadow side of our country. Please consider reading this piece that I posted by Chris Hedges right after the heartbreaking and horrifying election: https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2024/11/excellent-chris-hedges-politics-of.html.

In addition, there are many other excellent documentaries which trace the roots and threads of what has brought us to where we are today. This is yet another deeply important, informative, and exemplary documentary: 

All of this is to lay the grounding for reading and absorbing this excellent piece I'm sharing below by Henry Giroux. There’s such a deep need for us to understand where we are and how we got here and a vision of a radically transformed nation and world.

As Pema Chödrön has also wisely said, "Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." And there is so much that we individually and collectively need to know that will ultimately pierce through our ignorance and despair, our justifications to dehumanize other human beings, and all of our flailing about unskillfully when it is the deep and sacred wisdom of our hearts and souls that is so deeply needed.

So the time for illusions is indeed over. Another world is possible and it begins with each and every one of us. May courage, integrity, solidarity, and a profound commitment to truth be contagious! We are truly all in this together. 

Bless us all,

Molly

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The Democratic Party: Architects 

of Cowardice, Accomplices to Fascism

By Henry Giroux

The Democratic Party has forfeited every claim to moral and political credibility. It is not a bulwark against fascism but an accomplice to it, a party of cowardice and complicity that props up the most barbaric features of gangster capitalism-extending from staggering levels of inequality to its refusal to support national health care. Its leadership, craven, visionless, and drunk on Wall Street money, has become a machinery of war and despair. It is wedded to the military-industrial complex and normalizes through its silence a culture of war, misery, and cruelty. It sends billions in weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu, an indicted war criminal, fully aware those arms sustain a machinery of occupation and repression. With one act, fighting to cut off the flow of weapons, the Democrats could help end this slaughter. Instead, when Netanyahu recently visited the White House, they shook his bloodstained hand and smiled for the cameras, their shamelessness captured in a widely circulated, obscene photograph. This betrayal abroad mirrors the Party’s collapse at home. The Party’s cowardice is written into its very DNA.

 It is a party of whiners, trapped in ideological smugness and a flaccid discourse of compromise.  Given its political and ethical weakness, it is ironic that on occasion it drapes itself in the hollow language of “resisting Trump’s authoritarianism.” This becomes more obvious when it advocates, on occasion,  working with the regime, even as it props up authoritarians abroad and tightens the screws of neoliberal cruelty at home. Moira Donegan writing in The Guardian is right in stating that the Democratic Party is the party of self-sabotage, that is, it has a vision of American politics in which (they] have no power to set the terms of the debate on their own.” Its neoliberal policies have hollowed out working-class communities, shredded social protections, remained largely moot in calling out Trump’s regime as a criminogenic organization, and left despair in their wake, conditions that became the breeding ground for Trump’s authoritarian ascent. They created the void that fascism fills, and now they tremble before the monster they helped unleash.

The racist bile and fascist rhetoric spewed by Trump’s loyal sycophants, especially Stephen Miller, the president’s homeland security adviser and deputy chief of staff, receives far less outrage than the criticism directed at progressive voices like Zohran Mamdani, now running for mayor of New York City. When Miller brands the Democratic Party not only a domestic extremist organization but “an entity devoted exclusively to the defense of hardened criminals, gang-bangers, and illegal, alien killers and terrorists,” the silence from Democratic leaders is deafening. No effort is made to expose such language as rooted in the poisonous legacies of fascism and white supremacy, or  for that matter call for his resignation. Yet there can be no doubt that Miller’s discourse, and his influence in shaping Trump’s militarized immigration, education, and policing policies, is a five-alarm fire for democracy, one that demands unrelenting opposition. There is no effort on the part of the Democratic Party leadership to acknowledge that the Department of Homeland Security has become not only a domestic terrorist organization but a “white nationalist content, mill churning out bigoted, jingoistic schlock.” 

This cowardice abroad is matched by their silence in the face of fascism at home. Matters of moral witnessing, addressing war crimes, calling out massive violations of human rights at home and abroad are rarely acknowledged by the Democratic Party leadership. This is especially true with respect to the genocide taking place in Gaza. Not only is it morally indefensibly silent about its own complicity in arming Israel, it also reveals itself too timid to confront Israel’s genocidal policies in Gaza, where more than two million people have been reduced to conditions resembling a “vast Ground Zero.” As a party wedded to Wall Street, it is too timid to challenge the predatory capitalism that now mutates into one of the most destructive and exploitative economic systems on the planet, an order that thrives on the obliteration of human needs, elevates profit as its only sacrament, and transforms the state into a corrupt crime syndicate.

At home, the Democratic leadership refuses to lift a finger for candidates who represent genuine hope. Their refusal to support Zohran Mamdani in New York is not an oversight but a betrayal. Schumer and Jeffries embody the Party’s moral bankruptcy: Schumer the coward, Jeffries the gutless tactician, both locked in servitude to corporate power, both content to preside over a politics of endless war, mass incarceration, obscene inequality, and the normalization of state terrorism. They are the pallbearers of democracy, not its defenders. Commenting on the fact that Jeffries and Schumer have so far refused to endorse Mamdani, journalist Mehdi Hasan wrote in a Wednesday column for The Guardian, “If you want to understand why the Democrats are polling at their lowest point for more than three decades, look no further than these two uninspiring Democratic leaders in Congress.” Mehdi only gets it partly right: these two politicians embody not individual cowardice, but a party that supports genocide in Gaza, refuses to stand up to the military-industrial-academic complex, and could not care less about the future they are destroying for young people. 

The American people deserve more than these moral zombies. What is needed is a new party, one unafraid to fight for radical democracy and the dignity of all. A party that calls for the end of staggering inequality, a universal wage, free health care, free quality education for all, housing for everyone, strict gun restrictions, the abolition of poverty, and the dismantling of the warfare state. A party that will slash the bloated defense budget and redirect those trillions into schools, hospitals, homes, and the expansion of social rights. A party that will name criminalized  capitalism for what it is: a death-dealing order of greed, violence, corruption, and disposability.

Fascism does not arrive fully formed; it is cultivated in the soil of despair, in the immiseration engineered by Trump’s cruelty and the Democrats’ cowardice. Left unchallenged, it corrodes everyday life until cruelty appears normal and democracy becomes little more than a corpse draped in patriotic slogans of hate, disappearance, and lawlessness. The Democratic Party cannot halt this descent. It is too compromised by its allegiance to corporate power, too wedded to the financiers of misery, and too invested in the politics of fear to offer anything resembling resistance.

The time for illusions is over. The Democratic Party cannot be reformed, nor can it be trusted to halt the march of authoritarianism. What is required is not the rehabilitation of a party of cowardice, but the creation of a new political formation, one that does not tremble before fascism but confronts it head-on. A movement that refuses to confuse capitalism with democracy, that rejects the barbarism of endless war and the plunder of Wall Street, that refuses to sacrifice children in Gaza or in America’s streets on the altar of profit and power. Such a movement must be rooted in the struggles of ordinary people, grounded in solidarity and sustained by collective courage.

The future belongs to those who can imagine and fight for a radically different order: a socialist democracy grounded in solidarity, justice, and care. It belongs to those who demand free health care and education, who insist on housing and dignity for all, who struggle for racial, gender, and economic equality, and who reject the culture of disposability that treats lives as expendable. It belongs to those willing to rise up, organize, and fight for a world where freedom, justice, and equality are not a privilege of the few, but the common inheritance of all.

If fascism grows in the soil of despair, then resistance must grow in the soil of hope. Against a politics of fear, we must summon a politics of courage. Against the machinery of death, we must build a mass working-class movement with the power to imagine and fight for a future in which socialist democracy is not an empty slogan but a hard-won reality, hammered out in struggle, sustained by solidarity, and carried forward by those who refuse to be ruled by fear. Democracy will not be saved by the cowards of compromise or the apostles of war, but by those in the struggles of workers and the oppressed who risk everything for justice, equality, and hope.

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include: The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of books, 2019), On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd edition (Bloomsbury, 2020); Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis (Bloomsbury 2021); Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance (Bloomsbury 2022) and Insurrections: Education in the Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics (Bloomsbury, 2023), and coauthored with Anthony DiMaggio, Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025). Giroux is also a member of Truthout’s board of directors.

Please go here for the original article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/08/the-democratic-party-architects-of-cowardice-accomplices-to-fascism/

Sunday, September 14th @ 10am: Ron and I Will Begin To Celebrate Our Wedding Anniversary Where It All Began

On September 14th Ron and I will return to Portland Insight Meditation Community for the Sunday morning gathering and dharma talk. This week Alexa Redner will be the guest teacher. She is also the facilitator of the weekly Tuesday evening women's sangha at PIMC that I cherish being a part of. Alexa is so warm, wise, and wonderful! I adore her.

And this Sunday will also mark the 12th wedding anniversary for Ron and me. It will be lovely for us to return to PIMC on this very special day as we reflect on being married there twelve years earlier. While Ron and I have been going to PIMC for many years, this will be the first time for us to be there on our actual anniversary. I am excited and my heart is smiling Big!

As some of you know, there was also a tragedy one year ago that resulted in the suicide of a sangha member and which brought about the abrupt departure of Robert Beatty. Robert had married us and been a founder, lead teacher, and integral part of Portland Insight Meditation Community for decades. I wrote about the heartbreaking circumstances and trauma that surrounded this enormous disruption, change, and loss here: https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2024/10/personal-reflections-on-tragic-loss.html. This piece has been viewed nearly 1,000 times now and I am so grateful. Hopefully it has been illuminating and healing for many.

Since that time there have also now been many incredibly positive changes in our spiritual community. Out of the ashes, a rebirth has happened for which I am profoundly grateful. If interested, you can read more about what is happening at Portland Insight Meditation Center here: https://www.portlandinsight.org/weeklygroups

This is last minute, but I also invite any of our local friends who would like to join us and the dharma community on Sunday morning to please do so. You do not need to be Buddhist to belong or benefit. All are welcome. We gather just before 10am until noon. And then there is coming together for tea/snacks and visiting afterwards for anyone who wishes to stay. The address for PIMC is 6536 SE Duke Street in Portland. 

And what to say about Ron. It is hard to put into words what it has been like to have the true loving partnership and deep and abiding love that I share with my beloved husband. He is a gem. He is a keeper. And I am blessed and grateful beyond my wildest dreams. Blessed be. 🙏

I love you, Ron....

With Metta,

💜

Molly

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words

Nothing ever justifies the violence that ended the life of Charlie Kirk. Violence is never the answer. Never. And while this assassination needs to be condemned, it also needs to be illuminated how Charlie Kirk was a chronic purveyor himself of violence, hatred, ignorance, and delusion. Violence breeds more violence. Which is why it is never the answer. — Molly

Charlie Kirk speaks on stage at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 22, 2024. Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

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.” (source)

Black pilots

• “If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, ’Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” (source)

Black women

• “They're coming out, and they're saying, 'I'm only here because of affirmative action.' Yeah, we know. 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." (source)

Civil rights

• “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.” (source)

Death penalty

• "[Death penalties] should be public, should be quick, should be televised… I think at a certain age, it’s an initiation… At what age should you start to see public executions?" (source)

Democrats

• “The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates.” (source)

Empathy

• "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage." (source)

Feminism

• “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge." (source)

Gay people

• “You might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture, is in Leviticus 18 is that, ‘thou shalt lay with another man shall be stoned to death.’ Just sayin’! So Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19… the chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” (source)

George Floyd

• “This guy was a scumbag.” (source)

Great Replacement Theory

• “It's not a Great Replacement Theory, it's a Great Replacement Reality. Just this year, 3.6 million foreigners will invade America. 10-15 million will enter by the end of Joe Biden's term. Each will probably have 3-5 kids on average while native born Americans have 1.5 per couple. You are being replaced, by design.” (source)

Guns

• “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.” (source)

Jews

• “Jewish donors have been the number one funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits. This is a beast created by secular Jews and now it’s coming for Jews, and they're like, ‘What on Earth happened?’ And it's not just the colleges. It's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it.” (source)

Martin Luther King Jr.

• “MLK was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.” (source)

Muslims

• “They aren’t even hiding their intentions. Muslims plan to conquer Europe by demographic replacement. Will Europe wake up in time?” (source)

Palestine

• “I don’t think the place exists.” (source)

Transgender people

• “You’re an abomination to God.” (source)

Please go here for the original article: https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words?utm_source=substack&publication_id=2325511&post_id=173452031&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1ifxu&triedRedirect=true