It is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable viewsβthat he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state. Itβs that Kirk reveled in open bigotry. Indeed, claims of Kirkβs βcivilityβ are tough to square with his penchant for demeaning members of the LGBTQ+ community as βfreaksβ and referring to trans people with the slur βt****y.β Faced with the prospect of a Kamala Harris presidency, Kirk told his audience that the threat had to be averted because Harris wanted to βkidnap your child via the trans agenda.β Garden-variety transphobia is sadly unremarkable. But Kirk was a master of folding seemingly discordant bigotries into each other, as when he defined βthe American way of lifeβ as marriage, home ownership, and child-rearing free of βthe lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school,β adding that he did not want kids to βhave to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.β The American way of life was βChristendom,β Kirk claimed, and Islamββthe sword the left is using to slit the throat of Americaββwas antithetical to that. Large βdedicatedβ Islamic areas were βa threat to America,β Kirk asserted, and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a βMohammedan,β with Kirk supposing that anyone trying to see βMohammedism take over the Westβ would love to have New Yorkβa βprior Anglo centerβββunder Mohammedan rule.β
Kirk habitually railed against βBlack crime,β claiming that βprowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people.β He repeated the rape accusations against Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated Central Park Five who is now a New York City councilman, calling him a βdisgusting pigβ who had gotten away with βgang rape.β Whatever distaste Kirk held for Blacks was multiplied when he turned to those from Haiti. Haiti was, by Kirkβs lights, a country βinfested with demonic voodoo,β whose migrants were βraping your women and hunting you down at night.β These Haitians, as well as undocumented immigrants from other countries, were βhaving a field day,β per Kirk, and βcoming for your daughter next.β The only hope was Donald Trump, who had to prevail, lest Haitians βbecome your masters.β
The point of this so-called mastery was as familiar as it was conspiratorialββgreat replacement.β There was an βanti-white agenda,β Kirk howled. One that sought to βmake the country more like the Third World.β The southern border was βthe dumping ground of the planet,β he claimed, and a magnet for βthe rapists, the thugs, the murderers, fighting-age males.β βTheyβre coming from across the world, from China, from Russia, from Middle Eastern countries,β he said, βand theyβre coming in and theyβre coming in and theyβre coming in and theyβre coming inβ¦β
You can probably imagine where this line of thinking eventually went.
βJewish donors,β Kirk claimed, were βthe number one funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits.β Indeed, βthe philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.β
What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to βEnd Racism,β and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirkβs death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I donβt know. But the most telling detail in Kleinβs column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.
snowghoul
jbbartram-illu
titsay
annaxmalina
vaporwave
pixelskylines
