Colin Kaepernick's Recurring Role in Kirk-Era Debates
Showing 10 Colin Kaepernick videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Colin Kaepernick's 2016 decision to kneel during the national anthem recurs across this material as a touchstone for arguments about protest, hypocrisy, and free speech rather than a story followed for its own developments. In a debate with Hasan Piker, Charlie Kirk argued that conservatives who object to street protests but defend Kaepernick's kneeling, or vice versa, are being selectively consistent about what counts as legitimate protest, while a separate Politicon debate saw Kirk state he supports Kaepernick's right to still be in the NFL even while considering his gesture disrespectful. Brandon Tatum has described Kaepernick's protest as the direct origin of his own media career: his first viral video, posted in 2017, criticized Kaepernick's kneeling and launched what became a full-time commentary path away from policing. Candace Owens has taken a sharper line, calling Kaepernick a case study in profiting from victimhood and arguing he built a lucrative brand around a historically uninformed narrative about America's uniqueness in the history of slavery and racial oppression.