# Charlie Kirk is Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 11, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935 "2025-09-11T07:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 74
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935/74 "2025-09-11T20:27:22Z")
Czarcasm here is quoting Charlie Kirk) > [@Czarcasm](#): > > “If I see a black pilot I am going to be like “Boy, I hope he’s qualified.” In another discussion, some on the right are trying to still say that DEI or other ways to increase the number of minorities **with merit** into the workforce are “woke” or they should be illegal. In reality it is prejudice hiding behind a fig leaf. [The context at that point of the discussion was a paper that was used in the end to help justify discrimination of women and minorities in today’s environment.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancel-culture-and-canceling-versus-consequences-for-actions/1020644/954) (this was not in the paper conclusions, but right wingers were told that it did). So it was very ugly when the right wing still points at that 2018 issue and [the variability hypotheses](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/02/trump-bls-nominee-gender-iq/) as if it only the paper had been vetted in its original form that then there would be scientific confirmation that DEI or other Equal Opportunity efforts were evil. I said there: tell it to the Tuskegee Airmen! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/p402cuRIy8Q/maxresdefault.jpg "The Tuskegee Airmen | US History | WW2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p402cuRIy8Q&t=0) (Short animated video about how the black aviators not only fought Nazis, but American prejudice. One should notice how the bigoted critics from the past tried to use bigoted “science” and military “study” reports, in an attempt at stopping the Airmen from kicking Nazi butt in WWII) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935)._