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How much freedom of speech do you have at work? Experts weigh in after Charlie Kirk's death | AP News

Charlie Kirk speaks at Texas A&M University as part of Turning Point USA's American Comeback Tour, April 22, 2025, in College Station, Texas. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP, File)

Charlie Kirk speaks at Texas A&M University as part of Turning Point USA's American Comeback Tour, April 22, 2025, in College Station, Texas. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP, File)

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-workplace-speech-firing-29717a8612ccedebabc7cba29e7ef627
https://apnews.com/article/dowd-msnbc-kirk-comments-e08f349022c9d69171cd575664141075

It should probably come as no surprise that right-wing forces are working to make sure that anyone of any prominence is fired from their job if, on the subject of Charlie Kirk, they say anything negative or truthful (but I repeat myself). For more on that, click on the above links. As for Charlie Kirk, here's a sampling of his recent statements.

On race

    If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

    If you're a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

    Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that's a fact. It's happening more and more.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

    If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

    If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they're coming out and they're saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

On gender, feminism and reproductive rights

    Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge.

    – Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025

    The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.

    – Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024

    We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024

On gun violence

    I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

    – Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk's conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

On immigration

    America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025

    The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

    The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024

On Islam

    America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025

    We've been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don't care, that's what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025

    Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.

    – Charlie Kirk social media post, 8 September 2025

On religion

    There is no separation of church and state. It's a fabrication, it's a fiction, it's not in the constitution. It's made up by secular humanists.

    – The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022


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