She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk

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    20 hours ago

    He said that in context of a few specific women, not black women in general. Seriously, taking things out of context is so habitual that I can’t believe anything.

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      19 hours ago

      Okay so what is the context then? Every time I’ve seen one of his quotes with context it just makes it worse.

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        18 hours ago

        Kirk said, “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. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ We know. 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.”

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          17 hours ago

          So it’s worse? Also was he implying that Barack Obama should’ve married a white dude? Cause that’s kind of hilarious.

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            13 hours ago

            THEY said they only got there because of affirmative action. I assume Michelle Obama meant that her husband wouldn’t have been elected if not for affirmative action as well, which i disagree with.

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              4 hours ago

              sounds like he is just saying other people is saying it so he can be racist and blame “they”

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        13 hours ago

        Those specific women said that they wouldn’t have got where they are without affirmative action. He interpreted that to mean that they were admitting to being lesser qualified.

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      18 hours ago

      omg you guys I was only being racist to specific black people when I said that, I only said Black Women so I wouldnt get sue’d, geez.

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        18 hours ago

        Kirk also specifically said “You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” in the context of those specific black women.

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          17 hours ago

          you mean top-level comment, not OP.

          If TLC can pull out some context which reframes the comment in any way, I will give them an upvote, regardless of my opinions on Kirk in general.

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        18 hours ago

        Kirk said, “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. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ We know. 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.”