Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Charlie Kirk wannabes get laughed off of HBCU campus, mocked on Twitter

 

Two Charlie Kirk wannabes got laughed off of an HBCU campus when they tried that "debate me, bro" nonsense.


As we move further away from the awful situation of Charlie Kirk's assassination, I am glad to see that more people are coming a basic revelation. And that revelation is the fact that Charlie Kirk was a two-bit hustling grifter and a homophobic racist to boot. Some folks have been steadily trying manufacture a narrative that Kirk was someone who wanted to debate and let both sides of an argument make their points. That's a damn lie. 

Kirk's debates were anything but. During his "debates," Kirk bullied younger college students who had less public speaking experience than him. He would talk over them, insult them and then rely on carefully edited videos and tweets to present a ludicrous claim that he "destroyed" them. The only reason why pundits such as Ezra Klein and Brian Stelter gave Kirk undeserved praise after his passing was because he gave them something to write about and kissed their asses in face-to-face meetings. Of course he did. They were useful to him. He needed their influence to spread his nonsense.  One wonders what he said about them behind their backs. 

Bear in mind that none of what I have just said justifies Charlie Kirk's murder.  Even as we criticize the way Kirk died, we cannot allow him to become a martyr.  Charlie Kirk was no martyr. Far from it.

All of my above comments are leading up to something which happened Wednesday.

A bunch of Kirk wannabes got a much-needed reception when they tried that "debate me" junk at a Tennessee State University, a historically Black campus. There was no violence but a lot of mockery. It's what one should expect when a group of people don't want their humanity to be the subject of a "debate." Or don't want to be dragged into a situation (in this case, Kirk's murder) which had nothing to do with them.


1. No one told them to come. No one asked them to come.  According to university officials, the Charlie Kirk wannabes didn't even follow correct protocol, so they shouldn't have been there in the first place:


 
2. And frankly - if I can speak plainly and in general - "ain't nobody got time for the bullshit."  No one owes anyone a debate or discussion, particularly on issues which personally affect them. I'm personally sick and tired of the gaslighting when white and heterosexual pundits and wannabe social media influencers scream "debate me" at people of color and LGBTQ people as if we need to justify our lives and issues for the benefit of their egos and inflated sense of entitlement. 

That's the big loophole about "debates" when it comes to Black and LGBTQ issues on news channels and social media. They like to TALK about us but don't want us to talk. To them, we are "identity politics," a term which they never seem to use when talking about MAGA voters or white evangelical voters.

An added delight to the situation at hand is the attempt by MAGA social media influencers portray the wannabes as victims (as seen by one of the above tweets). As you can read below, that didn't exactly work in their favor. 

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