She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk

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    14 hours ago

    I’d like to see how sharing someone’s own public words is disparaging their memory. Isn’t that how he’d want to be remembered? Did he recant those words? Because if it is wrong to quote him, that implies those words shame his memory. But then why is it shameful to quote him, but not to speak the words in the first place?

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      4 hours ago

      I’m sure this is rhetorical, but in case anyone doesn’t know the game plan: they want to exploit the sudden uptick in people looking into Kirk to draw more people into his ideology, which works best if the newcomer thinks he was well liked and respected.

      If someone sees his true beliefs from the beginning, they’ll be more likely to see it for the putrid vomit that it is, but if they first believe he was an intellectual free-thinker brutally murdered for speaking the truth, they may give his bigotry more weight when they stumble upon it later.