Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Is Being Rewritten. Remember Who He Was.
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.4 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Kirk built his career by debating students and spreading rhetoric that was too often dismissed as “spirited debate.”
Now, in the wake of his death, politicians and media outlets are rushing to rewrite his legacy. In this episode, Bridget digs into what Kirk really stood for, why his words mattered, and why violence doesn’t erase bigotry.
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| 0:49.7 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:55.3 | Hello. |
| 0:56.8 | So if I sound a little bit out of it, it's because it's been a very long week. |
| 1:02.5 | I suspect that is probably true for you, wherever you're listening. |
| 1:06.8 | I think we could all use a week where things just feel a little bit normal. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm not even asking for good. |
| 1:13.2 | Frankly, I'm just asking for normal. |
| 1:15.8 | But that week is not this week. |
| 1:18.4 | So I wanted to talk a little bit about what is going on with Charlie Kirk. |
| 1:23.6 | So I'll tell you the broad strokes of what's happening. |
| 1:26.2 | And then I want to get into my main point, which is what the reaction has been like and what I think it says about where we're at as a culture. |
| 1:34.0 | So in case you've not heard, this week, 31-year-old conservative right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, huge Trump ally was shot and killed during a campus debate at Utah Valley |
| 1:46.7 | University in Utah. Law enforcement initially released some pretty like unhelpful videos and |
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