To the Editor:
There has been a rash of recent articles portraying Charlie Kirk as a hero, and very little attention given to the full picture of what he represented.
At a Turning Point USA event in 2023, Kirk said he thinks gun deaths are “worth it” to have a Second Amendment.
“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually,” he said. “I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.”
Appearing on Jubilee’s internet show “Surrounded,” Kirk insisted Black people were “better” in the 1940s under Jim Crow laws.
On his radio show, Kirk not only said that Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are “affirmative action picks.”
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”
Kirk repeatedly spread misinformation surrounding the death of George Floyd.
Here’s another quote: “Democrat women want to die alone without children.”
He also said certain Black women “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.”
After Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement, Kirk fantasized about Kelce making Swift “more conservative” and begged the pop star to “submit to her husband.”
During this same Jubilee episode, Kirk was asked what he would want his daughter to do if she were 10 years old and pregnant following rape.
He responds, “The answer is yes. The baby would be delivered.”
In regards to consideration of people who have worked hard all their lives and aren’t millionaires like him he stated “Now, I will say that for future retirees, people under the age of 45, we should absolutely raise the retirement age. I’m going to say something very provocative. I’m not a fan of retirement. I don’t think retirement is biblical…”
The qualities of a man revealed through these statements are not those of a leader who expresses the highest values. He found a way to make controversial statements profitable, make money off the attention, and garner huge financial support from those who benefitted financially off of the promotion of these view points. Real leaders think beyond themselves and for the greater good. Promoting the disrespect of others and negating their contributions is harmful, not beneficial.
Turning Point USA has a record of dubious financial practices and top personnel who had acted as fake electors. Obscured financial connections and extravagant payments are common. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Jake Hoffman, one of the group’s primary outside consultants, recruited teenagers to spread false information online about voter fraud and the coronavirus pandemic. That led Twitter and Facebook to suspend numerous accounts, as previously reported by the Washington Post. Services sold by Kirk’s organization appeared to be vehicles to transfer money rather than actual needed and competitively priced. A get out the vote campaign was condemned by a former aide to Arizona Sen. John McCain, who said the amount of money sought by Turning Point was objectionable. “$108 million? I can’t even fathom it,” said Jon Seaton, who specializes in get-out-the vote efforts. “There’s not even enough doors to knock on.”
The job was fruitful. A $4.75 million Spanish-style estate in a gated Arizona country club that charges nearly a half-million dollars for a golf membership and several other million dollar homes. He created a fabulously lucrative lifestyle, yet finding public record of contributions to arts, culture, or the betterment of fellow citizens proved futile.
Too many people are finding that stirring up violence and confrontation are useful tools. Our job is to not go along with the program. Violence is not the answer. All of the families suffering from needlessly losing loved ones should be wrapped in love, and as a society our voices condemning violence are appropriately loud. There’s plenty of room to be louder.
In an act of targeted political violence Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park and her husband, Mark, were assassinated. Somehow, the death of a well loved elected representative with a record of positive and inclusive contributions to her community has received little attention. It serves us well to consider what is receiving major and continued press attention and what is quickly left aside.
-W. DeWitt, Ukiah
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