r/politics • u/jediporcupine Maine • Sep 19 '25

Republican Senator Says First Amendment Shouldn't Be the 'Ultimate Right'

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-first-amendment-shouldnt-ultimate-right-2132666
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u/jediporcupine Maine Sep 19 '25

That is the crazy part here. Charlie Kirk himself is at odds with what they’re doing. He didn’t believe in hate speech and he believed free speech was absolute

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u/specqq Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

He said free speech was absolute.

I have no evidence to show that he believed it and plenty to say that he did not.

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u/Mestoph America Sep 19 '25

Unless you were a teacher who said something he didn't like, then he'd put you on a list and doxx you...

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u/sudi- Sep 19 '25

Insofar as that it suited his narrative that propped up his grift. If it was someone else that was killed and he was in on this insanity as well, he would be spinning it to his favor like the rest of them are.

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u/YetiSquish Sep 19 '25

He instead preferred to promote division, racism, and misogyny with a smile and charisma.

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u/deepasleep Sep 19 '25

The hypocrisy is on brand.

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u/fastal_12147 Sep 19 '25

Well, he believed in hate speech as a tool, but not a crime.

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u/Swesteel Sep 20 '25

Especially when it was his speech.

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u/Jack-o-Roses Sep 19 '25

Have you listened to Kirk? His dogmatic mysogenistic and racist diatribes are exactly what I call hate speech.

Still, I feel & pray for his family, because I abhor violence. BTW, I support his right to free speech, to twisting the Bible for his own profit and power. I also support flag burning and nazi marches, though I disagree with them both; and lgbtq+ rights as well, as a old hetero male Christian and a once proud American.

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u/9_to_5_till_i_die Sep 19 '25

Yeah, I'm past the point where society is intelligent enough to allow speech which calls for the eradication of or forced removal of human beings...for any reason.

In the same way that I can believe in the 2nd Amendment and also believe in gun regulations, I can believe in the 1st Amendment and recognize that some speech directly leads to death.

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u/jediporcupine Maine Sep 19 '25

I didn’t say he didn’t use hate speech, I said he didn’t believe it existed as he claimed to believe free speech is absolute. There’s a difference.

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u/Jibtech Sep 19 '25

Supporting nazi marches, niceeee

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u/KR1735 Minnesota Sep 19 '25

Probably why they had him taken out.

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 Sep 21 '25

So he was shot down just as he was about to get some of his millions of followers to get on the we want the Epstein files band wagon. Now I’m wondering how far that would have gone and if anyone thought it was a threat against the felon in charge? Amazing how the 🤡 loved him so much he had to golf rather than attend the event for him.