"I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," Kirk said. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." He claimed that the law brought about a "permanent" bureaucracy which promoted diversity and inclusion. He also labelled civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person".
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Despite citizens in Florida making plans for a quiet Christmas as Covid cases rose sharply, Turning Point’s end of year gala went ahead. With around 5,000 young people expected to attend the raucous four-day event, it was labelled a super-spreader. When it came to the vaccine, he spread misinformation and said requirements for it and wearing masks were comparable to "medical apartheid".
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In February last year while discussing capital punishment he said children should watch people being killed using the death penalty and that executions should be public. "Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it's an initiation..." he said before adding that the crime rate would go down if kids had witnessed an execution.
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"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," he said during an appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church.
In February 2024 he posted that ‘The Great Replacement’ was a "reality" and not a theory. It is based on the idea that undocumented immigrants are entering the US to replace white Americans. It has been widely debunked as a conspiracy theory but has been adopted by prominent far-right politicians and media.
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Forgive me if I am not shedding a tear. This is a man whose actions and words have supported things that kill Americans.