For an alternate viewpoint, see “Point: Free Speech is Too Expensive; Charlie Kirk Paid With His Life.”

To hear his supporters now, following his murder last week at a Utah university, Charlie Kirk was a brave broker of competing ideas, an honest peddler of open debate who encouraged young people to examine all sides of any claim.

In truth, Kirk was a clever racist. How else to explain his view that the landmark Civil Rights Act was “a huge mistake” or his denigration of Martin Luther King Jr.?

Why did he single out Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, both Black women, in saying they lacked the “brain-processing power to be taken really seriously”?

In truth, Kirk was a charismatic antisemite who repeatedly blamed Jews for a range of problems

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