Posted on 11/17/2021 3:21:58 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) — Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things “no one dares say out loud.”
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a “scumbag,” he said, unworthy of the attention.
The insult lodged at Floyd — a 46-year-old father suspected of passing off a counterfeit $20 bill — was intended to be shocking. But anyone familiar with Kirk shouldn’t be surprised. For years, the conservative provocateur and his group, Turning Point USA, have built a following inflaming racial divides and stoking outrage. Kirk thrived during President Donald Trump’s tenure — landing speaking spots at the Republican National Convention in 2016 and 2020 and occasionally counseling Trump on campaign messaging and tactics.
Now the 28-year-old is expanding his reach, trying to rally a next generation of aggrieved white conservatives. On a tour of college towns, he blasts schools and local governments for teaching about racism, with a confrontational style some call dangerous. Yet Kirk is drawing large crowds of millennials and Gen Zers, millions of online followers and donor cash, often with little media attention.
Kirk is stoking fear among a group that is coming of age in a time of social restlessness, said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minneapolis civil rights lawyer and activist.
“He’s taking the discontent that some people may be experiencing and combining it with racial animus, which is a dangerous recipe in a country that is still in the midst of racial turmoil,” she said.
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Agitation and Propaganda—all leftist lies, all the time...
So many knowing falsehoods in this article by the AP. Typical.
“...right wing provocateur...”? White suprema-cysts?🐂💨💩
Without the slightest hint of irony.
I’ve always considered Kirk a moderate.
The Associated Depressed has finally come out and made it clear who they really are! Vermin!
My skim of the article conveniently doesn’t seem to mention which claims were debunked.
AP is a lying sack of shit. Sad thing is, many low-intelligence Democrap voters will read this leftist propaganda and not realize that’s what it is.
I’ve been around the block a time or two. I know the George Floyd type. That’s exactly what he was!
Needs a barf bag alert.
Drug addict, criminal... doesn’t sound like a scumbag to me.
Funny how they never do hit pieces on Left wing provacateurs.
Oh, I see. Floyd was just a family man trying to put food on his fambley's table. Imagine that, cops killing a working man struggling to feed the kids.
Here's a hint for the AP: Every black male over the age of 15 is a "father". But they know that already, and they twist language to make career criminal Floyd appear to be something better than he was in reality.
George Floyd wasn’t a scumbag? Who knew?
Remember when reporters were supposed to be neutral? This AP guy would do well working for Pravda. They can’t stand it when someone unmasks their lies and propaganda!
If the colors were reversed, the press would nominate Kirk for sainthood.
Nope. To this Stalinist agent, he was merely a "father."
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