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The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk's toxic legacy is underway [View all]
Conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, becoming another victim of America’s epidemic of gun violence.
Kirk’s death was a tragedy for his friends and family. But the response to it from many political leaders, journalists, and news outlets has whitewashed the substance of Kirk’s activism, which involved an endless geyser of hate, bigotry, and misinformation.
President Donald Trump baselessly blamed Kirk’s death on the political left in a video released Wednesday night, arguing, “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today and it must stop right now.”
Trump then announced on Thursday he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Trump previously awarded to notorious racist Rush Limbaugh.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wrote, “The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”
Kirk’s death was a tragedy for his friends and family. But the response to it from many political leaders, journalists, and news outlets has whitewashed the substance of Kirk’s activism, which involved an endless geyser of hate, bigotry, and misinformation.
President Donald Trump baselessly blamed Kirk’s death on the political left in a video released Wednesday night, arguing, “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today and it must stop right now.”
Trump then announced on Thursday he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Trump previously awarded to notorious racist Rush Limbaugh.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wrote, “The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/11/2342963/-The-whitewashing-of-Charlie-Kirk-s-toxic-legacy-is-underway
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— Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) 2025-09-11T17:19:32.299Z
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