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My Two Cents [1]
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Date: 2025-09-11
“I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good!”
Jackie Mabley, 1971
When MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for calling Charlie Kirk a divisive figure, they fired him for telling the ultimate truth about Charlie Kirk. His entire career was to be divisive. It was like firing an ESPN employee for calling LeBron James a basketball player.
For decades, the GOP always had Young Republicans chapters in universities. They discussed issues pertinent to conservative ideas and engaged with those who would disagree with them, hoping to explain their message. Kind of like Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses. The thing was, they were open to things of common cause with liberals who did not agree with them. I attended Rice University in the 1970’s and the Young Republicans hated Texas A&M with the same fervor of us leftists.
Charlie Kirk changed that. I don’t know if he chose this on his own or was directed by someone else, but he saw an opportunity to go to college campuses and exploit the possibility that a sizable number of white men, and the women who love them for their testosterone, might be resentful of the open displays of tolerance to minorities. These would be students who may be put off by gay pride clubs, by the Hillel club, by feminist clubs where Andrea Dworkin would tell college age women that all sex is rape, by the black student union (though the black student union did not merit much attention because there were so few blacks on campus and they tended to focus on their studies). Rather, it was the large number of whites who were agreeing with the plaints of minorities like LGBTQ, women and minorities and were open to supporting them, even setting up camps against apartheid in South Africa, or marching against the Shah of Iran. This had to stop and Charlie Kirk was the spearhead in stopping it.
Charlie Kirk has said so many outrageous and hateful things in his life. I will let others repeat them if they want. But I notice that they are so hateful and outrageous that I have suspicions he never actually believed them. One reason is he often talked about some grave threat as if he didn’t believe it was a grave threat, just a person who knew it would get a reaction. To him, his whole philosophy was just a schtick in his traveling college campus tour. It wasn’t the purpose, it was just the sight gags.
His real reason, and the reason he got so much attention and money from the right, was to go to these campuses and find as many white men to convince that these displays of non white Christian heterosexuality where an actual threat to them. His job was to sow divisiveness, to set college students against each other, lest they make common cause against the real source of their social or economic misfortunes.
If my understanding of Kirk and his mission is right, then the only reaction from the right is to make sure his legacy survives by intensifying divisiveness and hatred for those who are not white heterosexual Christian men.
It is early in this discussion, but I would not be surprised if he is given medals, honors, a statue and further demands that people not conservative white Christian males be punished for his death.
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