Horst Wessell
Wednesday at Utah Valley University was supposed to be the start of what Kirk was calling, “The American Comeback Tour.” It was slated to take him to nearly a dozen colleges, from Utah to Virginia, Minnesota to Louisiana.
This is what Kirk did often – he went to colleges across the country, holding court, casting doubt on liberalism and challenging anyone within shouting distance of a microphone to take to it and argue with him.
His conservative friends and followers describe Kirk as a Christian, a father and the nicest person they knew — someone who engaged in the “free marketplace of ideas,” as Johnson put it on CNN.
Kirk was provocative and often clips of his talks and arguments on campus or what he said on his podcast went viral, often stoking controversy.
For example, here is just a selection of some of those things Kirk said:
“White, college indoctrinated women will ruin America if we let them.”
“I’m sorry, if I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.”
“We should bring back the celebration of the M.R.S. degree.”
“Maybe one of the reasons that Taylor Swift has been so annoyingly liberal over the last couple of years is that she’s not yet married, and she doesn’t have children. … Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”
“It is so materially insane to think that 1 in 5 American women will be raped in their life … meaning that they’re lying about being raped, that they’re lying about being sexually assaulted. Like a fraternity guy and a sorority girl at age 19 hooking up, both five drinks in at 2 a.m. and all of a sudden, like, she removes consent. Yeah, like, that’s a murky, middle gray area.”
Of former TV personality Joy Reid, former first lady Michelle Obama, late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: “They’re coming out, and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ Yeah, 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 be taken somewhat seriously.”
Really?
He was a big fan of Donald Trump and he thought Michelle Obama is stupid? And he was happy to say so in public?
I wonder if it ever occurred to him that that kind of thing can inspire others to get violent. I wonder if he ever thought about the physical safety of Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Of course he did. He believed that a number of deaths by GSW was a fair price to pay for the Second Amendment. Spending other people’s lives was just fine; he just probably never thought that he’d be picking up the tab himself.
He’s going to get a posthumous decoration from Trump. Flags were lowered to half-mast in various official places. A new Horst Wessel myth is being given birth to.
Isn’t affirmative action just picking a minority out of the people who are already qualified? So that even if these people all did benefit from affirmative action, they would still be qualified?
Well, if I can have even a small role in ruining his vision of America, I will stand up proud.
Yes. But for most (white) people, it means hiring someone who is lesser qualified just because they are a minority. For a lot of those people, they don’t believe the minorities are as qualified, because they believe they are not as smart, they don’t work as hard, or whatever.