Charlie's campus tours are back and more electric than ever! In his appearance at the University of South Florida, Charlie takes questions on the Civil Rights Act, dissolving the Dept. of Education, and whether he pushes "misinformation." Then, he turns the tables with some questions of his own. Watch ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch on charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What topics does Charlie Kirk discuss on campus?
Hey everybody, it is me on campus. You'll enjoy these conversations. I know it at the University of South Florida. I talked to a teacher that is educating our kids, someone who ran for Senate. We talk about Doge and more. As always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk.com and become a member today. Members.charliekirk.com. That is members.charliekirk.com.
Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Hello. Oh, hi. Be respectful, guys. He can do what he wants.
Oh, can I start now? Nice to meet you, Charlie. I'm a big fan. I think you're a very beautiful man. I admire you physically. No homo! No homo! No homo! I did have a question. Something I don't find very interesting about you, something I find kind of repulsive, is that I believe you said that the Civil Rights Act was bad and that we shouldn't have that. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.
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Chapter 2: Why does Charlie Kirk critique the Civil Rights Act?
I don't like you as much as Charlie, though. First of all, what's your name? Oh, sorry. I don't want to be filmed and stuff. I'm anonymous, number one. Anonymous guy.
Hello. Nice to meet you, anonymous guy.
Thank you. Thank you. Nice to meet you, too.
I believe in part of the essence of the Civil Rights Act went way too far, way too wide. Oh, how did it go too far? Well, for example, it created an entire civil rights leviathan that gave us affirmative action. Civil rights leviathan? What do you mean? Yeah, so if you can let me finish three words in. Sorry.
Chapter 3: How does affirmative action impact college admissions?
It allowed the Department of Justice to go after people that have different skin color, a.k.a. white people, and prevent them from getting jobs in college admissions. You have a job. I'm sorry? You have a job. No, you're right. I do. Right.
But just until Trump came around, until the Supreme Court decision, thanks to the Civil Rights Act, if you have white skin color, it's much harder to get into a college than if someone has black skin color. Much harder. You have to have higher test scores. It's a much harder pool, largely thanks to the precedent set by the Civil Rights Act, not to mention all the trans stuff that we're seeing.
We're seeing men be able to win trophies and medals from women across the country, and they use the Civil Rights Act to justify it.
Okay, I think I see where you're coming from. So you think that it's harder for white people because of black people, they could have lower tech scores? That's not what I think. That's what you're saying. Okay. Well, I guess what I would say, too, I think perhaps you're familiar with the term equity, right, where different people... have different circumstances.
It's Marxism. I reject the framing.
Whether you reject it or not, I think it's a prescient concept in this argument. Because what you have to understand is that when you, for example, you're born in a black neighborhood, you're born in Oblok or something. Oblok. You don't know what Oblok is?
If you're born there, if you're born in a very poor area like that, with very low economic opportunity, very poor schools, very low ratings, where the average test score is much lower, When you're in that environment, you have the whole system up against you, right?
So when you say in that kind of circumstance, when you're facing the whole, I guess, leviathan of systemic racism, would you say that's fair to, for example, lower the standard because knowing that their circumstances were like that, perhaps based on what they had, what was presented to them, they had the correct amount of merit to get into a school?
Okay, so are you a student here? I'm guessing you are. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm a student here. Are you a pretty good student? Oh, yeah, I would say I'm a good student. I have a pretty high GPA. Okay. Can you give your GPA to her because she's a woman of color, please?
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Chapter 4: What is Charlie Kirk's view on racism and meritocracy?
If you give, how do you get? You must take and then you give. Wait, what do you mean? That which is given must first be taken. Well, what's being taken? Well, in this case, grades from you to grades to her.
No one's taking my grades, though. That's not what affirmative action is.
Hold on a second. No one takes your grades. Hold on a second. You only have so many positions at University of South Florida to come in, right? There's a set number. Let's say it's 20,000 people, okay? And we're going to say we're going to lower the test standards so that somebody that's a woman of color... can come in, and therefore it's harder for you.
So it's a higher bar for you, lower bar for them. Definitionally, it's a redistribution of test scores for somebody else, just by the definition. And you're okay with that?
Well, I guess I would ask then, if we were to do what you're doing, I guess that's what's happening under Trump, right? Well, no, it's actually been happening the last 40 years. Okay, actually, yeah, whatever.
Okay, so when you say that, if you do that, then, well, black people aren't going to get into school, and then they won't be able to uplift themselves, they won't be able to have prosperous families, they won't be able to, you know, equalize the economic status, because you need to give them a little jump start. You know, you have a car, right?
How is that, how is that, well, no, now I know who you are.
No, no, no, no, no, it's good.
How has that worked the last 40 years? We've had robust affirmative action, we've had hiring practices. Has it made black America more successful?
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Chapter 5: How does Charlie Kirk respond to questions on social media's role in polarization?
And by the way, I just want to thank you for something. You're welcome. I want to thank you.
Do I get a portion of the TikTok revenue you're going to get from this?
I want to thank you. I want to thank you for something.
Oh, yeah.
Hi.
We got 15 minutes. Let's stick with disagreements, guys.
Yes, ma'am.
Hi, I'm starting my senior thesis this semester on political polarization and the effects social media and echo chambers has on political polarization.
Talk right in the mic, and guys, please give her a chance to speak, okay? Bring your mic down a little bit.
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Chapter 6: What are Charlie Kirk's thoughts on economic policies under Trump?
I think we're getting less polarized because we won in November. Thankfully, there's all this clamoring minority of people that are angry because USAID doesn't exist. But the majority of people support President Trump, what he's doing. He won the popular vote. There's this huge mandate. We're going to we're going to restore what it means to be an American citizen.
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How are you? All right, Charlie. So I ran for state senate because our government doesn't work well. There's a lot of waste. There's a lot of bloat. And yet the things that you're advocating about going against are what help people. Everybody here is... Everybody's here because they support freedom. Because as you say, we want a freer market, we want a freer place.
And yet these policies of destroying the Department of Education, which I'm a teacher for, hurts our ability to take power in the marketplace. It just adds to the few rich people owning all of us. Right now in America, the top 0.01% have an average $600 million of wealth. The bottom half have an average $7,000.
And by showing the Department of Education, the Center for Budget, the Consumer Protection Bureau, that is actively helping those rich people take all of our money. Prove me wrong.
Okay, so Trump's been president for six weeks. Sure. Right? So we had an oligarchy as Donald Trump was becoming president.
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Chapter 7: How does Charlie Kirk approach discussions about political freedom?
Show me the facts.
It's their taxpayer dollars that are coming back as a refund, right?
It's also the public taxpayer dollars that are put into public money, and they were given back to private individuals rather than going to the public system. It's their own money that's coming back. No, because you're advocating for the rich people stealing our tax dollars. Hold on. It's easy to say, like, the rich people, right? Yeah.
The 75% of the money that's going to private education— How do you define rich, by the way? How much money a year is rich? If you can afford a private education, which is anywhere from $15,000 to $40,000 a year, you are rich. And 75% of the money going to the private— Wait. And 75% of the money going— Half of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
If you can afford $40,000, you're richer than most people. Now, 75% of the money that is going from the public education system into the private system is going to those who can already afford private education.
What is the number one predictor of student success?
How many years a teacher has been an educator.
Yeah, actually the quality of this teacher. So can we agree at least, because we'll not agree on everything, that we should be able to fire teachers at will?
At will is, what do you mean at will? For what cause? If you're a bad teacher. What do you mean by bad teacher?
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