Not Racist: Charlie Kirk Believed Race Was a Social Construct

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ClearThinker: Is this the guy you’re calling a “racist”?

(Roll video of Charlie Kirk debunking the concept of race)

Charlie Kirk: Name one thing that white people and Black people have different, biologically.

Black debater: DNA-wise, we are fundamentally different.

Charlie Kirk: No. That’s a lie. It’s been disproven. Front page of the National Geographic 6 months ago. Racism is created by society. Race is a social construct, that I want to break out of!

ClearThinker: Hold up. He doesn’t even believe in race!

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as, “Prejudice based on race, or the belief that some races are inherently superior.”

But if Charlie’s a racist, why is he arguing race doesn’t exist? If he’s a white supremacist, doesn’t he need race to be real? I mean, you can’t be a racial supremacist while arguing racial categories are fake.

And wait a sec. Race has been used to justify oppressing black people for centuries.

So, why is the black kid defending racial categories, while the “white supremacist” wants to destroy them? This isn’t new for Charlie. He’s been saying this for years.

And guess what? He’s right.

Here’s the history of race. People always noticed skin color, but it mattered about as much as hair color. Slavery existed everywhere, and it was practiced by every skin color long before race was invented.

Then, European colonizers needed justification for enslaving Africans. So, in the 1600s and 1700s, they invented racial hierarchy.

The most influential framework came from Johann Blumenbach, a German doctor. He created the racial categories we still use today. Then, Georges Cuvier took Blumenbach’s categories and ranked them, with white on top and black on the bottom. And racists ran with it.

But here’s the twist: Blumenbach never intended to create racial hierarchy. He was just trying to organize observable human characteristics. Kind of like classifying plants. He believed we all have identical intellectual potential. He said differences came from environment and education, not biology and those differences could evaporate over time. He was a devout Christian who believed we were all made equal. Sound familiar?

Charlie Kirk consistently argued against racial categories and got called a “racist”.

Yes, Charlie talked about race sometimes. He knew it was made-up, but we live in a racialized culture. To change a culture, you must speak its language, especially when that culture keeps race alive through affirmative action and DEI.

But most people never heard him in a long-form interview.

(Roll video of Charlie Kirk on Tuckerson Carlson’s show)

Charlie Kirk: Again, I hate this racialization stuff –

Tucker Carlson: Me true.

Charlie Kirk: They forced the racialization card, for the record.

Of course.

Charlie Kirk: I don’t look at people in terms of skin color, but when they start categorizing me and the young men that show up to my events as “toxic” because they breathe, you force the race card.

ClearThinker: I used to think Charlie was just confrontational with college kids for clicks. Then, I listened to his full interviews. I realized he was fighting for hearts and minds in the battleground of ideas. And he was winning. That’s why he was killed.

And the tragic irony? Charlie believed in race less than many of the people calling him “racist”.

We think we know someone from 60-second clips. We mix news with entertainment and call ourselves “informed”. We judge strangers from echo chambers.

And that’s part of the tragedy. Not just that we lost Charlie: That people can’t tell the difference between hate speech and speech they hate.

“Fascist”. “Racist”. These words have been so overused, they’ve lost meaning. And it’s causing a breakdown in society.

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