The real Charlie Kirk

Wikipedia - His rhetoric was described as divisive, racist, xenophobic, and extreme by groups that studied hate speech, including the Southern Poverty Law Center....

According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories". He promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, and called universities "islands of totalitarianism"....

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud^[and immediately after Trump lost the 2020 election, Kirk promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election....

In 2020, Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media platforms, such as Twitter. He sharply criticized Democrats' criticism of Trump's withdrawal of WHO funding and called COVID-19 the "China virus", which Trump retweeted. Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19 pandemic. He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus"....

In defending the Trump administration's response to the pandemic, Kirk falsely stated that during the 2009 swine flu pandemic it "took President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to declare a public health emergency.... 

In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines. On the Fox News show hosted by Tucker Carlson, Kirk called mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine "medical apartheid".....

Kirk strongly opposed abortion. In a September 2024 debate hosted by Jubilee Media, Kirk argued that abortion is murder and should be illegal. He opposed exceptions for rape, including for children as young as 10. Kirk compared abortion to the Holocaust, and said that abortion is worse.

Kirk was a gun owner and gun rights advocate. He was opposed to gun control. ... In an April 2023 TPUSA event in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kirk said: "I think it's worth it, I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

According to a 2024 NBC News report, Kirk was relatively secular regarding LGBTQ rights in the United States in 2018, but shifted toward more conservative stances. On January 21, 2025, Kirk praised Trump for revoking Executive Order 14004, which had allowed transgender people to serve openly in the military...

On November 22, 2019, Kirk said "I believe marriage is one man, one woman", but added that gay people should be allowed in the conservative movement.^[160] In 2022, during an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show streamed on YouTube, Kirk criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. He called LGBTQ activists the "alphabet mafia"...

Kirk had voiced a belief in the decline and victimhood of White Americans. In 2015, Kirk said that his dream in life to attend West Point was lost to a candidate of a different ethnicity. The rejection, which he blamed on affirmative action, deepened his shift to the right. In 2018, Kirk told a college audience that the concept of white privilege is a myth and a "racist idea". ....

In 2023, Kirk said that "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people" in urban America. In 2024, he said, "The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different", and added, "The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white." ....

Kirk praised Martin Luther King Jr. prior to December 2023, variously calling him a "hero" and a "civil rights icon". That December, he used a speech at AmericaFest to describe him as "awful ... not a good person" and as someone who is admired only because he said "one thing he didn't actually believe". The speech also saw Kirk condemn the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling its passage a "huge mistake" and alleging that it had created a "permanent DEI-type bureaucracy"....

During an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show on July 13, 2023, Kirk said that prominent Black women, such as Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, did not have "the brain processing power to be taken seriously" and had to "steal a white person's slot". He also opposed Juneteenth (a day which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.) being declared a federal holiday, describing it as "anti-American" for promoting "a neo-segregationist view" that he alleged sought to supplant Independence Day...

At a 2023 event at Missouri State University, Kirk said that immigration to the United States should be completely stopped. In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Kirk promoted the false claim that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets and other wildlife  Kirk called for the use of force against migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border, including the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and whips. 

In October 2023, Kirk said on The Charlie Kirk Show that "Jewish donors have been the Number 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi‑Marxist policies ... This is a beast created by secular Jews, and now it's coming for Jews", and also suggested that these Jews control "not just the colleges; it's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it". Soon after, he said that "Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years."^....

In November 2023, Kirk said that "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."