Opinion: Remember Charlie Kirk Not by His Dozens of Vile Quotes, But by One of His Good Ones
A conservative plea to turn the temperature down.
It’s been a week since conservative political activist, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated, and since his passing, I’ve seen too many people dredging up Charlie’s worst quotes.
My plea to those people would be: please, let’s not remember Charlie by his dozens of vile comments, but instead, let’s remember him by his few good ones.
I’ve seen far too many people post his bad quotes, such as:
"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”1
"[Trans people] are an abomination to God."2
“We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.”3
When instead, we should be focusing on his good quotes, like:
That nice quote above highlights what I believe people misunderstand about Charlie: when he wasn’t saying something political, he was the spitting image of Christ.
And I’m not alone in this sentiment. Our country’s very own H.H.S. Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., posted this on X4 yesterday:
Charlie often looked to the Bible for guidance too, saying:
"In Leviticus 18, [it says] ‘thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death.’ Just saying… [this] affirms God’s perfect law…"5
"Submit to your husband, [women]. You’re not in charge.”6
"We should absolutely raise the retirement age… I don’t think retirement is biblical.”7
So, please, now is not the time to focus or bring up Charlie Kirk’s words, such as:
“[Black people] were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes.”8
“[Joe Biden should be] put in prison and/or given the death penalty…”9
"It’s funny, I used to say if you as a gay person would go to Gaza, they’d throw you off of tall buildings, but now they don’t have any tall buildings left…"10
"Someone should have just took care of [transgender people] the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s."11
"[Joy Reid, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Shiela Jackson Lee, and Michelle Obama] do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously, [they] had to go steal a white person’s slot…”12
“MLK was awful. He's not a good person."13
He was a patriot, after all; he loved this country. For that, he at least deserves to not have his words be quoted verbatim, especially so soon after his passing. Slandering and politicizing the recently deceased is not what Charlie would’ve done.14
We should instead put our efforts, not into posting divisive quotes, but into tribute videos like this one made by a fellow patriot on TikTok:
So, let’s choose to use this time to come together, to heal, and to lead with empathy15 (no matter what side of the political aisle you’re on!) so that we can turn down the temperature in this country.16
We all need that.
Correction: Slandering the recently deceased is not typically what he would do. ("[George Floyd] was a scumbag.")
Nevermind. Not empathy - Charlie didn’t like empathy - we’ll do sympathy instead.
Unless Charlie’s family & the government say otherwise.
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