FactCheck.org reviewed the viral quotes attributed to conspiracy theorist and white supremacist Charlie Kirk, finding that most are accurate and only a few are taken out of context.
Suppose you were unfamiliar with the work of Charlie Kirk before he was murdered. In that case, you may be interested to learn that most of the controversial statements being attributed to him, and denied by supporters, who imagine this sort of racist bigotry was actually just the words of a good Christian, are correct.
In the same episode, Kirk rejected complaints that he was antisemitic, saying that in earlier episodes he had said he was "glad that Jewish Americans are reconsidering their financing of cultural Marxism, and people misunderstood it intentionally and slandered us as being antisemites."
"Cultural Marxism" is considered by some, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, as an antisemitic conspiracy theory. At its most extreme, it refers to the idea that a small group of Jewish immigrants in the U.S. worked to subvert Christian culture in America and spread progressive values.
The phrase sometimes is "a colloquial analogy for political correctness" and is "often used, without antisemitic intention, to describe liberals, progressive movements and others," the Antisemitism Policy Trust, a U.K. nonprofit, explained in a 2020 briefing. "However, in reality, it is a shadowy term openly used by antisemites, neo-Nazis and others with nefarious intentions." The group "strongly recommends" that people avoid using the phrase.
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The entire article is worth reading if you have any doubt that Mr. Kirk's commentary is being misinterpreted. The incredible effort Republican leadership is putting behind martyring this homophobic, anti-semitic, racist, who proved our need for gun control by dying, is a wonderful person and must be revered, is terrible.
Previously:
• 'We are Charlie': Scenes from the ongoing vigil and memorial for Charlie Kirk at TPUSA headquarters in Phoenix
• Teaser of Indiana Jones mocking fascists in 1937 removed after complaint it somehow about Charlie Kirk
