The Charlie Kirk Thread



“… In a video of the incident, Booker can be seen jumping up and down, yelling profanity and taunting people attending the vigil about Kirk’s death. “Y’all homie dead,” she said at one point. Booker and an unidentified man began to argue, with the man asking why she was “being so hateful,” and Booker firing back with the same question to him. The man responds, “I want to be left alone.”

The incident occurred Friday near the Student Union Building, a “free speech area,” according to the Texas Tech Police Department.

Booker was arrested by Texas Tech Police and booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center on a charge of simple assault, a misdemeanor in Texas, according to the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office. She was released the next day on a $200 bond.

Booker is no longer enrolled at Texas Tech University, said Allison Hirth, vice president of marketing and communications at the university. “Any behavior that denigrates victims of violence is reprehensible, has no place on our campus, and is not aligned with our values,” she said in a statement.…”



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If she were my kid, I would be appalled at her behavior, but hard to see how her outburst in the video justifies an assault charge or being kicked out of school.
 
dukeman92 said:
I guess I lost my sister to Charlie Kirk. She’s a Bible thumping pretend Christian who has been posting non stop about Charlie Kirk and I finally commented on one of her posts… one thing led to another and I was accused of spewing hate and division just for pointing out shit that Kirk said. Go figure.
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I feel you. I lost my brother too… but it was a long time ago when Trump first came on the scene politically in 2015. Actually, come to think of it, I started “losing” him back in 2010 or so. I started losing a ton of “friends” and some family back then.
 
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Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others

The Oath Keepers are apparently restarting, and extremist groups like the Proud Boys are calling for “state violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.
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For years,extremist groups, white nationalists, and militias like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers saw Charlie Kirk not as their ally, but as their enemy.

Though Kirk denigrated trans people, Muslims, unmarried women, and many minorities and advocated for an America with Christianity at the center of every aspect of life, he was, in their view, a moderate. For some, his staunch support of Israel’s government made Kirk a target rather than a friend.



But in the immediate aftermath of Kirk being fatally shot while speaking at a Turning Point USA event Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, these same groups were quick to frame the incident as an attack on one of their own, portraying Kirk’s death as part of what they see as an ongoing war against white, Christian men. The same groups were relatively quiet on Friday after police announced they had arrested a 22-year-old from Utah for the killing who had no obvious ties to the left.


These groups, many of which have been relatively dormant since the mass arrests surrounding the January 6 attack on the Capitol, have used the outpouring of grief around Kirk’s death as a lightning rod, a signal that they need to mobilize and take action. Many of them, including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, have used Kirk’s death as a recruitment and radicalizing tool to convince his supporters to take a more extreme worldview.

“Nothing can stop what is coming,” Ryan Sánchez, the leader of the far-right National Network, who was caught on video giving a Nazi salute during last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, wrote on his Telegram channel. “We are mobilizing young Nationalists to defend our communities against the Radical Left—we need your help!”


The appeals appear to be at least somewhat working: Sánchez’s post was accompanied by a screenshot showing a $1,000 donation he received on Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo.


“This is the beginning of a movement that may define our nation,” the donor wrote on the site. “Use it for good and purge the country of these insane ideologies.”


Another donor, who called himself “White Nationalist,” commented: “Time to take our country back fellas. Get to work!”

Sánchez, an acolyte of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, has already mobilized. A video from a vigil for Kirk that Sánchez promoted in Huntington Beach, California, on Wednesday shows a group of men chanting: “White man fight back.” He shared another image of himself speaking at the vigil on his Telegram channel, with the caption: “DEATH TO THE LEFT.”

The video of the chanting in Huntington Beach was shared in many other extremist groups, including the Anti-Communist Combat HQ channel on Telegram, which is a hub for amplifying antisemitic, racist, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from groups including Active Clubs and the National Justice Party.
 
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