"The Hypocrisy Of These [REDACTED] Is Astounding": People Cannot Believe Erika Kirk Accepted An Honorary College Degree

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk is facing large disapproval aft precocious accepting an honorary grade from Hillside College connected behalf of her precocious husband, Charlie Kirk, and herself.

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People online look to instrumentality 2 large issues with the degree, and some are steeped successful what they judge to beryllium hypocrisy.

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Issue One: Charlie Kirk infamously believed assemblage is simply a "scam."

The precocious podcaster wrote a publication titled The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth, successful which he argues that assemblage degrees are "useless."

During a Turning Point USA event, Kirk expanded connected these ideas, arguing that students are "filled with truly atrocious ideas" and "if you look astatine the magnitude of wealth that you person to walk to go, the magnitude of clip you walk here, and the ideas you person to endure, I bash judge [college] is simply a scam."

So posthumously awarding him and his woman an honorary assemblage grade seems like... an absorbing prime to some:

"Mind you Charlie Kirk thought assemblage was a scam and women shouldn't get an education," this idiosyncratic tweeted.

"Her hubby advocated against radical particularly women going to college. wtf is this performative BS," different said.

"The hypocrisy of these motherfuckers is astounding," said another.

"Do you recognize that radical EARN honorary degrees due to the fact that of their life's enactment and achievements?" 1 idiosyncratic asked. "Not conscionable due to the fact that they joined a Podcaster that was anti-college."

"Stop with this honorary doctorate," different agreed. "She does not merit that! She needs to enactment for it!"

"Celebrities getting honorary degrees is specified a slap successful the look to those who enactment their asses disconnected to get those degrees. Then you marque it idiosyncratic similar Erika Kirk and conscionable adhd adjacent much insult to injury, smfh."

"Meritocracy for everybody other but DEI for them!"

And finally, 1 idiosyncratic wrote, "i consciousness similar they conscionable springiness honorary degrees to everyone."

What are your thoughts? Let america cognize successful the comments.