Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls Charlie Kirk A Hatemonger - Again

Posted • September 30, 2025: Six days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus, Ta-Nehisi Coates published a piece in Vanity Fair in which he argued that, by "ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy." Coates is still trashing Kirk, this time on Ezra Klein's podcast for the New York Times. "Ta-Nehisi Coates is a writer I admire — somebody I have a genuine friendship with," Klein wrote. "In the days after Kirk’s murder, he published a piece in Vanity Fair that was pretty harshly critical of what I had written and what he saw as a whitewashing of this man’s legacy and role in politics. Coates compared what I was doing there to the whitewashing of the Southern cause after the Civil War." Of course, he was. So Klein had Coates on his podcast recently to talk more about Kirk, and Coates didn't hold back. Yes, he made it clear in his Vanity Fair piece that Kirk was pro-life, "rejected" the separation of church and state, and was transphobic.

Here he is with Klein: Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger. I take no joy in the killing of anyone no matter what they said. But if you ask me what the truth of his life was I would have to tell you it’s hate.” —— What a loathsome scumbag. What a sick evil racist man Coates has become. Coates has done so much more to justify hate and violence than Kirk ever did. This fact is eating at Coates, who's just smart enough to be afraid this is projection. Charlie Kirk was always clear he believed his opponents could be forgiven, and I hope Coates finds his humanity. In fact he does take joy in slandering someone who would graciously invite him on to a stage to debate him. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the Paul Krugman of Neil Degrasse Tysons. You have to ignore 99% of Kirk's 4,000 available hours of interviews and events to come to this conclusion. By this definition how is Ta-Nehisi Coates not a hatemonger also? So your follow up question to him was, "Can you give me some examples?" Right?

Tell me you never listened to Charlie Kirk without actually saying you never listened to Charlie Kirk. Klein would never have Kirk on his podcast. He waits until after he's been killed by a left-wing nut and then invites Coates on to tell us all how he really kind of deserved it. You can’t just say somebody’s a hatemonger and not give any receipt/proof in this case you’ll never find it because that’s the total opposite of what he was so that’s my challenge. Let me see some proof of this. Who is the asshole nodding along and not asking even a simple, “Can you tell us something Charlie said that you found hateful?”? That's Ezra Klein. Even POLITICO did a piece on Coates' "toxic world-view." Same douchebag that called the first responders for 9/11 "menaces to society" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-toxic-world-view-of-ta-nehisi-coates-120512/ —— This interview is just the punctuation mark on a 60-year effort by Democrats to brand everything they disagree with as “hate”, all while elevating actual, visceral hatred to a level unseen in contemporary American politics. (…)

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