Amongst those Charlie Kirk openly called for violence against were trans folks, Blacks, women, queers, and educators. He said trans women were pervert men preying on real women, that Black workers are unqualified DEI hires and should not have jobs because they can't make proper life decisions despite being freed from slavery for 150 years, cried vehemently against women's rights, and created a "watch list" to dox Black and queer professors and make them easy to stalk. He was a White Supremacist who said that Critical Race Theory is "racism against whites" and held an "Exposing Critical Racism Tour (CRT)". He called public services "communism" to rile people up through "red scare" tactics. All this while telling us that those he does like, namely red-blooded straight white Conservative men, should all have guns to carry out their objectives, or as Gavin Newsom put it, "to continue his work".
Why the mourning over a lost Nazi?
Listen to the victims. From Professor Stacey Patton:
I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list.
His so-called “Professor Watchlist,” run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.
For weeks, my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: “bitch,” “c*nt,” “n****r.” They threatened all manner of violence.
They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired. The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.
And I am not unique.
Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse.
Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth, and we will unleash the mob!
That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies.
And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater. But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!
And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.
But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups. Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.
It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant.
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