Podcaster Charlie Kirk took to his platform to claim several prominent African American women stole their seats in Ivy League schools from more deserving “white people.”
The founder of the Turning Point USA conservative college activist group further asserted that people like Michelle Obama, Joy Reid and Ketanji Brown Jackson needed racial set-asides to gain their elite university admissions because they did not have “the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.”
On an episode of his “The Charlie Kirk Show” on the Real America’s Voice network, released on Thursday, July 13, he said, “If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and [Rep.] Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called a racist.”
“But 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.’”
Kirk continued to drag the women, stating that he and his listeners all know that they don’t “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,” he said. “We know, we know it’s very obvious to us that you were not smart enough to be able to get in on your own.”
Affirmative action, by definition, is a policy that aims to promote equal opportunities by providing intentional outreach to groups that have historically faced discrimination, according to Cornell Law School.
The policy was defined to “eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the results of such prior discrimination, and prevent such discrimination in the future” for candidates looking to go to school or work in certain professions or industries that have traditionally…
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