She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk
She should do the Bari Weiss thing and say she’s being silenced because they’re scared of her speaking truth.
He said that in context of a few specific women, not black women in general. Seriously, taking things out of context is so habitual that I can’t believe anything.
How convenient
omg you guys I was only being racist to specific black people when I said that, I only said Black Women so I wouldnt get sue’d, geez.
Why say black then? Why didnt he call them by names or simply say women?
Kirk also specifically said “You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” in the context of those specific black women.
Really curious to see the context here.
Kirk said, “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. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ 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.”
OP won’t post the context because Kirk (rest in piss) was a dyed-in-the-wool fascist shithead whose out-of-context quotes are even worse in context.
Okay so what is the context then? Every time I’ve seen one of his quotes with context it just makes it worse.
Kirk said, “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. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ 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.”
So it’s worse? Also was he implying that Barack Obama should’ve married a white dude? Cause that’s kind of hilarious.
THEY said they only got there because of affirmative action. I assume Michelle Obama meant that her husband wouldn’t have been elected if not for affirmative action as well, which i disagree with.
It’s only worse if you ever gave Kirk the benefit of the doubt, which I did not.
Wooooowwwwww
We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic.
Anecdotally, everyone I know in real life that has said this out loud, is an asshole in almost every way, shape, and form. Again, anecdotal, but the correlation seems strong to me.
Define “republic”
Fuck, I want them to define both
Comment lifted directly off of Facebook
I don’t use facebook or social media (instagram, tiktok, shitter, whatever else.) The internet is a cesspool. I thought maybe I could find something reasonable here but it’s unhinged misinformation spammed everywhere as usual. I expected better from decentralization, so I’ll just have to start my own lemmy instance and invite more moderate less-extreme people in.
Buddy, you’re the extremist, lol.
Pssst… You’re the only extremist here unwilling to recognize facts easily looked up in any encyclopedia. Please, grasp firmly and try — perhaps with a bit of lubricant — to pull head out of one’s ass. If not, then maybe you need to find some deeper right-wing radicalized echo-chamber of misinformation to make yourself feel more at home?
Our Republic is a Type-Of Democracy; a subset thereof. This is well known. Why do people quote conservative bullshit tropes like this?
They are pushing fascism. It makes it easier to do what they’re doing when they argue that the country isn’t as free as we think it is. They also like to say that democracy is tyranny of the majority. But only when they’re the minority party.
A republic is a kind of democracy, and we’re not even a functioning one of those, considering most of our elected officials don’t represent the public.
We are a democratic republic. We democratically elect our republican representatives.
democracy dies in darkness
They need to make the slogan true
They still haven’t fixed that typo! It’s supposed to be “died” now.
“Ah yes. The coming Darkness. I yearn it.” - Jeff Bezos, probably
Condolences to Karen for the BS firing. On the topic of “shit charlie says”, here’s his wikiquote entry. (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk) I love going on wikiquote because it acts as a summary of texts & thinkers that I don’t have the time to read. I say this because normally wikiquote is full of very aspirational quotes, but Charlie’s is very abysmal AND it’s recent too! These aren’t old quotes. These are from as early as this year. His anti-feminist quote (“Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”) was uttered in 2025. His anti-black and anti-civil rights comments were made last year in 2024. ("I’m sorry, if I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, “Boy, I hope he’s qualified.” January 2024.)
Also,
Kirk said, “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. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ 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.”
Isnt wapo bezos’ bragger
And?
The same Washington Post that reported with 100% confidence that the shooter was definitely, absolutely trans? And still hasn’t redacted their lies?
it was retracted.
The Washington Post is really trying to become the New York Post
It’s owned by Bezos. Nuff said!
I honestly don’t know why anyone who isn’t a right wing ball licker even looks sideways at either of those shit rags. They aren’t news outlets, they’re propaganda distribution hubs for the neo-nazi right.
Where do you get news from?
AP, Reuters, Guardian, and a half a dozen others including highly liberal rags like Mother Jones, Pink news, and MSNBC. Very occasionally CNN and WSJ. Very very often Lemmy, Piefed, and reddit.
Anyone who uses just a single source for news is a fool begging to be lied to and told what to think.
Look at Ground News and Tangle
Welp. I had cancelled after the last debacle, but resubbed on an extremely cheap offer.
I guess I’ll have to cancel again.
why are you giving corpos more money
Because I wanted a reliable source of news and they offered it for $2 a month.
I also want to support real journalism.
Reliable source of news and real journalism. And you go with that rag lol
I found this Carlos Maza video from three years ago to be illuminating about Charlie and his organization.
apparently this piece of shit is gonna get a funeral service at football stadium. What a fucking joke
I had no idea the Post was run by Reddit mods.
Washington post is owned by Jeff Bezos, no?
Affirmative, and it went downhill quick
Watching the media try to whitewash this piece of shit is a real mask-off moment for them.
