Charlie Kerk appealed to young conservatives to use old school tactics

The right -wing commentator, Charlie Kerk, helped him win a huge audience among young people looking for answers in an uncertain world. Scientists who study conservative tendency say that his ability to organize and communicate directly with people was the key to his attractiveness.

The 31 -year -old, who was shot during his appearance at the University of Utah on Wednesday, was born in the traditional world of conservative policy and a new digital scene from critics and targets who walk virals with short clips. Kirk used his talent in rhetoric to promote some of the most extreme ideas on the extreme right, and found a wide attractiveness among American youth.

“He is not just a media man. He is not just PodCaster, Tiktoker or a viral social media, but a real organizer,” said Nicole Hemmar, assistant history professor who focuses on the media, governorate and the presidency of the United States at the University of Vanderbelt in Nashville.

She said: “He was doing a difficult work on the campus of difficult universities … to carry out the output engines.” “No one is really like him.”

But Himmer says that the praise he received for his ability to organize and communicate with a wide base increasingly overlooks the harm of his speech.

“He is a person who said it is likely that the right advocacy of gay sex is stoning, and that black women are not smart enough to assume certain positions.”

“This is not a civil discourse. This opens a discussion about the basic rights and humanity of people.”

Attracts the “legendary past”

Kirk often called for a return to traditional Christian sexual standards that remind us of the fifties.

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Carky Cindeland, a doctorate in sociology, says these simplified and traditional opinions adopted by Kirk are attractive to young people who are struggling to find his feet amid uncertainty in the world. A candidate at the University of Toronto, where she is looking for masculinity and how the media is an understanding of sexual power.

“Many young people who suffer from this type of anxiety are looking for people to provide solutions,” Sunderland said.

She said that “audio novels” of Kirk suggested that they return to “the legendary past … where men were really men, or the masculinity was evaluated.”

Merridith Broadin, a professor of assistant communications and media at Kenissao State University in Georgia, says it considers a lot of Kirk’s speech to be a hate speech.

And you notice that this is not only what he said that the youth found attractive, but the way he said.

“The certainty in which he makes his statements adds an atmosphere of power and credibility,” said Brodin.

She said that Kirk’s call exceeds young people, referring to the provincial women who adopt the roles of traditional sexes, as is the case with influential people “commercial wife” who create content that shows them at home for cooking and cleaning for male partners.

The ability to communicate with attractive Republican support

Kirk began its start in 2012 by establishing the Turning Point Usa collection, which aims to mobilize young conservatives on the campus of universities.

Although social media has become more popular as a yard that could form views and air political opinions, it was still a time when meeting people who spend face to face, and the emergence of Kirk’s debate in universities has led to a lot of attention from the traditional conservative institution.

“He got Republican support and conservative funds very quickly,” said Sunderland.

She says that Kirk’s talent in speaking to the public and the passion for the debate was recognized early, and they have presented themselves well to social media, as the algorithms give priority to allergies and can contribute to attracting political beliefs.

Meanwhile, Cindeland notes that extremist right -wing beliefs, such as some of Kirk adopted, have become more prevalent as the Republican Party in the United States as well. It becomes more extreme.

“I am really concerned that this will be used as a kind of mass shouting to increase people’s encouragement,” Sunderland said of Kirk’s death in the shooting.

Fears about the escalation of political violence

In 2021, Kirk spoke at another university event in Minnesota. In the face of an overwhelming white audience in Mancato, about 130 km southwest of Minneapolis, he announced that he would say “No one dares to say loudly.”

This was followed by the ice collapse of the aspirations and allegations that were revealed by George Floyd, the black man whose death in May 2020 was at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, a global account began on racial injustice and broad calls for change.

Kirk Floyd described it as “scumbag”, and said he was not worthy of attention.

Now, Hemmer fears that Kerk’s general murder may lead to Political violence escalate It has not been seen in the United States since the 1960s.

“Violence is part of the decline in democracy in the United States,” she said.