Requirement:
Charlie Kirk, CEO and founder of Turning Point, said about civilian rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.: “Mlk was a terrible. He’s not a good person.”
Rating:
Rating: Correct assignment
Context:
Journalist William Turton first reported Kirk’s comments in 2024. January In the article “Wired”. According to a wealthy report, Kirk filed a statement by speaking the America Fest, a political convention organized by the US Turning Point USA, 2023. December Turton provided a Snopes audio that checked that Kirk said a quote about King.
2025 September 10th Charlie Kirk, the founder and Conservative commentator on Turning Point, was fatally shot at the Utah College Speaking event.
Subsequently, social media users shared a quote, reported to be the conservative pundit that the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was not a good person. Messages on Facebook, Instagram and X assigned these words to a Kirk: “Mlk was a terrible. He’s not a good man. He said one good thing he didn’t really believe.” Snopes also received readers’ requests on the authenticity of the alleged quote.
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We found that the quote about King was correctly assigned to the Kirk.
Journalist William Turton first reported Kirk’s comments in 2024. January In the article “Wired” (archived). According to a wealthy report, Kirk filed a statement by speaking the America Fest, a political convention organized by the Turning Point USA, 2023. December
Kirk answered the student’s question, who stated that he had undergone a Title IX study at his university after publishing an unwanted message about the transgender people in social media. Kirk noted how the pupil was thrown from the school under the complaint of the title IX.
Turton, who attended the event, provided Snopes audio, which checked that Kirk said:
[The student] Using the Law on Civil Rights, we, as a Conservative worship, was thrown out of school according to the Title IX. “Oh, MLK is a great guy.” In fact, MLK was scary. Okay? He is not a good person. He said one good thing he didn’t really believe; [unintelligible] Go research MLK, you should go to investigate it.
Kirk said the Federal Government would come after students’ free word, “using the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s, which was adopted with good intentions.
During the same event, Kirk said: “I have a very, very radical approach to it, but I can defend it and think about it. We made a huge mistake when we adopted the Civil Rights Act in the middle of the last century.”
Kirk had an important federal law prohibiting discrimination in public places that provided for the integration of schools and other public spaces and committed illegal discrimination. Title IX, which “prohibits discrimination on sex education programs and activities for which federal financial aid” was not primary in 1964. But adopted in 1972 Education amendments
Kirk responded to a wired article about his description for King during his podcast episode “Charlie Kirk Show”. His reply clip can be found in Rumble, where he reads loud excerpts from the email sent by Wired Reporter. A letter:
“In his work, we note that Kirk describes the king as a quote, ‘bad guy.'” This is true. “And Kirk described” a very, very radical approach “that the country made a mistake when it adopted the Civil Rights Act.” Also true. “As we mark in the piece, Kirk has previously described [King] As a hero and a civil rights icon. “That’s right, I was wrong before.” What made Kirk change his attitude towards MLK? Why does Kirk think MLK is a bad guy? “
As we have announced earlier, Kirk provided negative comments about the Civil Rights Act behind the Turning Point USA event. For example, in 2024. April The media is important to America, announced (archiveing) a video and an attached copy where Kirk said the Civil Rights Act “created a beast, and that beast has now turned into a white weapon.” That footage appeared in the video in the Kirko channel Rumble (8:06).
For further reading, Snopes also investigated the claims that Kirk said Jewish money was destroyed by US culture, that empathy was “produced, a new age term,” and that his last words against deadly shooting were about gay violence.
Sources:
Charlie Kirk: The Civil Rights Act ‘Created A Beast, and That Beast Has Now Turned Into An Anti-W WEAPON.’ Media Matters for America, 16 Apr. 2024, https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-civil-rights-aned-tate-and-beast-hs-naast-turt-turned-white-Weapon. Accepted 2025. September 12th.
“The Civil Rights Act (1964).” National Archive, 2021 October 5, https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act. Accepted 2025. September 12th.
Deng, Rae. “Yes, the last words of Charlie Kirk were, ‘Snopes, Snopes, September 11, 2025, https://www.nopes.com//face-check/charlie-last-words/. Accepted September 12, 2025.
“Jeremy Carl: It’s okay to be white”. Rumble.com, https://rumble.com/v4pvgc6-ejemy-carl- It-ookay-be-White.html. Accepted 2025. September 12th.
Lamagdeleine, IZZ Scott. “6 statements we checked about Charlie Kirk after the murder.” Snopes, 2025 September 12, https://www.snopes.com//collections/charlie-kik-hooting-conlection/. Accepted 2025. September 12th.
Liles, Jordan. “Charlie Kirk once said that empathy was ‘made, New Age term’.” Snopes, September 11, 2025, https://www.snopes.com//face-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/. Accepted September 12, 2025.
Loe, Megan. “Charlie Kirk once said that adoption in the Civil Rights Act was a ‘huge mistake’.
Rascouët-Paz, Anna. “Charlie Kirk once said that Jewish money is destroying US culture.” Snopes, 2025 September 11, https://www.snopes.com//Fact-check/charlie-irk-ynehish-noney-quote/. Accepted 2025. September 12th.
“IX Title and Gender Discrimination.” US Department of Education. http: //www.ed. Accepted 2025. September 12th.
“Wired comes after Charlie Kirko for he dared to speak the truth about MLK Junior and Civil Rights Act.” Rumble.com, https://rumble.com/v46N9PT-WIRED-OMES-FTER-Charlie-Kirk-for-to-the-Peak-the-Truuth-MLK-JR.html. Accepted 2025. September 12th.