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"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 … 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."

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

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Her edit is wrong, and probably deliberate, for that she will be criticized. But Kirk did write and say some truly heinous things. That much is something we all know.

He accused four successful black women of "steal[ing] a white person's slot", and guys here are desperately trying to pretend it only applies to these four persons.

Pathetic.

Again, you're putting words in our mouths just like she did to Kirk.

You should never be attributing verbatim quotes to someone while signing their name to it, especially as a journalist, it's simply wrong and unacceptable.

The reader can decide for themselves what Kirk actually meant after reading his actual original quote with you or her deciding for all of us.

She turned it into this, while putting quotes around it.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!db2o!,f_auto,q_auto:...

Yes, I know, I can read the very link I shared.

Do you seriously think Kirk is only accusing the "four people" - four successful black women - of "steal[ing] a white person's slot" and just these four? Only these four? That this is the message he is sending?

The point is that it in no way justifies making up quotes and adding his name to them as if he literally said something else verbatim, especially as someone working for a newspaper.

She could've just added what she thought he actually meant after not butchering what he said on purpose.

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