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The left and their media allies have taken to assassinate Kirk’s character, twisting his words, distorting his record, and in many cases, just making things up out of thin air.
fter Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the left and their media allies have taken to assassinating his character, twisting his words, distorting his record, and in many cases, just making things up out of thin air.
Here are some of the most egregious lies about Kirk.
Claim: Charlie Kirk Said Black People Were Better Off In Slavery This claim has been circulated amongst several social media users and even outlets like BET, where writer T. Ballard alleged Kirk “suggested Black Americans were ‘better off during slavery.'”
No search produces any verifiable proof that Kirk said such a thing — and Ballard of course doesn’t link to a single source. The closest clip anyone has pointed to comes from a roundtable debate (1:26:00) about the constitutionality of affirmative action in which Kirk condemned Jim Crow as “evil” before pointing out data that shows black Americans are poorer today than they were in the 1950’s prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act (which effectively ended the Jim Crow laws).
The woman he was debating asked whether Kirk was trying to suggest that blacks “thrived under subjugation.” (At this point, Kirk had pointed out that since the 1965 Civil Rights Act, blacks became poorer, black fathers left the homes in mass droves, and crime rates amongst blacks shot up whereas during the 1940’s and 1950’s those things were opposite).
“The data shows [blacks] were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad, it was evil, but what happened? Something changed?” Kirk asked, seemingly referencing Jim Crow subjugation — not slavery.
Claim: Kirk Said Black Women Have Inferior Intelligence According to social media users, Kirk said black women did not have “the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.”
It’s a claim Snopes rated “True” even though Snopes admitted in the fine print that Kirk was referring to four specific women, not “black women” as a whole.
During a July 13, 2023 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk was talking about Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us! They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action,'” Kirk said. “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.”
Kirk was criticizing four women he believed to be unqualified. But the left took a targeted criticism and inflated it into a blanket statement against an entire demographic.
thefederalist.com
fter Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the left and their media allies have taken to assassinating his character, twisting his words, distorting his record, and in many cases, just making things up out of thin air.
Here are some of the most egregious lies about Kirk.
Claim: Charlie Kirk Said Black People Were Better Off In Slavery This claim has been circulated amongst several social media users and even outlets like BET, where writer T. Ballard alleged Kirk “suggested Black Americans were ‘better off during slavery.'”
No search produces any verifiable proof that Kirk said such a thing — and Ballard of course doesn’t link to a single source. The closest clip anyone has pointed to comes from a roundtable debate (1:26:00) about the constitutionality of affirmative action in which Kirk condemned Jim Crow as “evil” before pointing out data that shows black Americans are poorer today than they were in the 1950’s prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act (which effectively ended the Jim Crow laws).
The woman he was debating asked whether Kirk was trying to suggest that blacks “thrived under subjugation.” (At this point, Kirk had pointed out that since the 1965 Civil Rights Act, blacks became poorer, black fathers left the homes in mass droves, and crime rates amongst blacks shot up whereas during the 1940’s and 1950’s those things were opposite).
“The data shows [blacks] were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad, it was evil, but what happened? Something changed?” Kirk asked, seemingly referencing Jim Crow subjugation — not slavery.
Claim: Kirk Said Black Women Have Inferior Intelligence According to social media users, Kirk said black women did not have “the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.”
It’s a claim Snopes rated “True” even though Snopes admitted in the fine print that Kirk was referring to four specific women, not “black women” as a whole.
During a July 13, 2023 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk was talking about Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us! They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action,'” Kirk said. “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.”
Kirk was criticizing four women he believed to be unqualified. But the left took a targeted criticism and inflated it into a blanket statement against an entire demographic.
Debunking The Top 5 Lies About Charlie Kirk
Here are some of the most egregious lies about Charlie Kirk.
thefederalist.com
