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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA when he was 18 years old.
But now we know his real Turning Point was at the age of 16 when he applied to West Point Military Academy and was rejected.
According to a former High School classmate, after he received an admission rejection letter, he went full-on racist.
He couldnt accept failure and blamed it on a black applicant to the academy, any black person.

marble falls
(68,734 posts)Coldwater
(228 posts)marble falls
(68,734 posts)Coldwater
(228 posts)but it's still important to understand why Charlie Kirk became the ass he became
FarPoint
(14,231 posts)Just maybe one can sense he was just another trumpian style grifter......the misses may be as well....
Wiz Imp
(7,520 posts)bucolic_frolic
(52,506 posts)Coldwater
(228 posts)Co-founder of Turning Point USA who was in his late 60s at the time.
bucolic_frolic
(52,506 posts)Nothing. Very vulnerable.
Coldwater
(228 posts)and recruitable into the ranks of far-right groups.
So, Charlie shouldn't accept any responsibility for his actions?
Tree Lady
(12,761 posts)By Rush Limbaugh when he was young and that opened the door to the rest of it.
Another life Rush ruined. So many were addicted to listening to his garbage.
yardwork
(68,147 posts)Every university has one. When I was in college there was a guy named Brother Jed who made the southeastern university circuit. His show was pretty entertaining. He'd rail about the evils of drinking, drugs, rock and roll, and sex. Mostly sex. He was very preoccupied with sex.
In more recent decades it seemed that each major university got their own assigned preacher. The local guy was meaner than Brother Jed had been.
Charlie Kirk just took it up a notch in terms of publicity and reach. Instead of an old man dressed in a black suit, "Charlie" looked like the students. Instead of shouting about damnation and brimstone, Kirk pretended to "talk" with his audience. But it's still the old message: "There are people among us who are evil. Drive them out or be destroyed by them."
JI7
(92,704 posts)able to make as much money.
I think she mostly married him was because of the money from that.
Emile
(37,826 posts)Never heard of him.
malaise
(289,513 posts)Turning point - poor lil martyr
JI7
(92,704 posts)of those that go there. So why did all those white men get in but he didn't ?
Coldwater
(228 posts)of excellence
niyad
(127,536 posts)and future communuty college dropout would not have come near qualifying.
Aristus
(70,969 posts)Dedicated to using teamwork and cooperation to make our country better and safer: the United States Army.
It amazes me how many "patriots" out there somehow seem to skip the whole "serving your country" thing...