A few minutes before he was killed by the armed fire at a Utah university on Wednesday, he had received a question for trans people and mass shooting incidents with many victims.
“You know how many Trans Americans were perpetrators of mass shooting with many victims in the last 10 years,” one of the attendees asked him.
“Too many,” Kirk replied.
Attack on trans and LOATKI+ community
Statistics show that trans people have committed a very small number of such massacres, according to the Politifact intersection website. But Kerk’s response was typical of the views of this conservative influenchers who in the last decade has emerged as a personality of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement and is believed to have inspired a generation of college children to pursue politics and vote.
In his speeches across the country, in universities, in podcast, in X Kerk seemed to love confrontation, presenting himself as a supporter of freedom of speech and open to the exchange of views.
“Charlie believed in the strength of the arguments and in the discussion good faith in order to find the truth and in order for people, if not to agree at least then to understand each other,” the organization founded by Kirk, Turning Point USA, said in a post on its website.
The word of Kerk, often full of comments against the community and immigrants, caused strong reactions between people.
If many of his views on the rights of LGBTKI+ people, about abortion, migration, gun possession, minority promotion programs reflect the current central positions of the Republican Party, others are more compiled with the right wing of the party, such as African Americans are responsible for crime.
He sometimes tried to appear more reconcile, such as July when he told Tucker Carlson: “How will we dishesive the country over the next two years? That concerns me. “
“Charlie Kerk was worshiped by the people who shared his vision of America, according to which whites are victims of efforts to have greater equality and inclusion. He was hated, he was scared by the people who were targeted by these views, “said Kylie Spencer, who has recorded Kerk’s rise in her book” Rising Them Right “.
“So there were two worlds,” he explained.
On the day the pop star with NFL player Travis Celsius, Kirk said, addressing her: “You are not the boss”, while calling her to “reject feminism” and “submit to her husband”.
In 2024 she was asked what she would do if she had a 10 -year -old daughter who was a rape victim and became pregnant. Kerk had answered “the baby would be born”.
Against African Americans and immigrants
Kerk rejected the programs of the intellist and promotion of minorities, as well as those who believed they were exploited to promote them.
In July 2023, he said that former US First Lady, Parliament Silason and Supreme Court Judge Kentaze Brown Jackson are not smart enough and would have not achieved what they did if there were no intersection programs.
Kerk also embraced the theory of “great replacement”, according to which non -white immigrants would replace the white US, while claiming that Islam “is not compatible with Western culture”.
At the same time, Kerk was against the rights of LGBTKI+ people and in April 2024 he had compared the provision of treatments for the Nazis’ brutality.
“An issue that I believe is grossly against our logic, so against the laws of nature and I dare say a finger to God is this trans thing that is happening in America now,” he said in his 2023 speech, which had been posted by the Right Wing Watch.
Rise to Maga movement
The son of a mental health adviser and an architect Kerk grew up in a rich suburb outside Chicago. He started his organization Turning Point USA at the age of 18.
He started working for Trump’s eldest son, Donald Junior, and met the US president at his private club in Mar-A-Lago in 2017.
After January 6, 2021 and the invasion of the Capitol, when many believed that Trump’s political career was over, Kerk joined the Stop The Steal movement, which claims to have been fraudulent in the 2020 presidential election to win the Democrats. Kerk is believed to have played an important role in the next election campaign for the 2024 elections, persuading much of the young voters to support Donald Trump.
Turning Point USA now has annexes to 3,500 High Schools and Colleges in the US, with about 250,000 members among students and has an annual budget of about $ 80 million.
On its website, the organization has a list of “teachers’ monitoring, in which students can report teachers and administrative staff who have” extreme leftist views “.
Stissy Patton, an African -American professor at the traditional African -American University Morgan, described what happened when her name was in this list.
“For weeks my voicemail and my email were full. It was mainly for white men dripping through the phone, ”using nasty and racist characterizations, as she wrote on her blog. “They threatened me with all kinds of violence.”
