#MeToo's Legacy Contested Across Kirk's Media Network

Showing 13 #MeToo Movement videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The #MeToo movement became a recurring point of contention across Charlie Kirk's broader media network, invoked most directly during Candace Owens's Oxford University debate with a feminist student who raised Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation and the movement's should-believe-women standard, prompting Owens to argue the framework echoed the same unverified-accusation logic that historically enabled lynchings in America. Kirk extended the critique of #MeToo-era assumptions into a direct interview with former Bachelor star Clayton Echard, who described being falsely accused of fathering twins by a woman he said had leveled nearly identical fabricated pregnancy claims against at least three other men over eight years, using the case to argue a broader guilty-until-proven-innocent presumption toward men had taken hold across media and the legal system alike. Michael Knowles defended Kirk separately after Kirk's comments describing Democratic sexual politics as promoting what he called sexual anarchy drew backlash from Media Matters and other critics, arguing Kirk had used precise rather than inflammatory language to describe positions the left, in Knowles's assessment, would not honestly own if pressed directly. Victor Davis Hanson connected the #MeToo era to a broader five-year pattern of cancel culture tactics, including deplatforming and blacklisting figures accused of sexist conduct, that he argued had since been turned back on critics following Kirk's own assassination.