Turning Point USA is holding their annual AmericaFest 2021 conference this weekend in Phoenix, where they are based. Founder Charlie Kirk and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson spoke Friday on opening night.
Kirk opened the event, hitting on a lot of social and cultural issues during his speech. He told the attendees not to let it bother them when the left calls them names for saying something true. He acknowledged that it’s so bad that if you speak out, “you might not be able to get a job in your field.”
He said it’s a “tyranny of the minority,” but “there are more of us than them.” He lamented the situation where “We don’t know our history or past,” we have amnesia, because the left doesn’t want us to have a historical reference point.
Kirk directed much of his ire at the creator of the 1619 Project, Nicole Hannah-Jones. He said the 1619 Project is “total garbage” and described her as a “con artist.” “She’s a liar and shouldn’t be a professor.” He pointed out how she never discusses all the efforts Thomas Jefferson made to end slavery.
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