UC Riverside's Recurring Role in Kirk's Campus Debate Tour

Showing 8 UC Riverside videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

UC Riverside hosted several of Charlie Kirk's most widely circulated campus exchanges, beginning with a viral question from Nala Ray, a former OnlyFans creator who described leaving the platform after a religious conversion and asked Kirk whether he would support banning pornography nationally, a proposal Kirk endorsed in principle while comparing pornography's effects to those of an addictive opioid and noting its different psychological toll on men and women. A separate visit drew Kirk into a widely discussed exchange with a biology student who argued that infants lacked moral worth until they could speak, a position Kirk pressed until the student acknowledged the argument's implications for a six-month-old, which Kirk cited afterward as evidence of what he called moral decay produced by higher education. Kirk's broader campus event at UC Riverside covered abortion, immigration, and DEI admissions in front of a crowd he later described as more receptive than expected for a California audience, including an exchange with a Catholic student who invoked the biblical account of Jesus fleeing to Egypt to argue for more compassionate immigration policy. A separate debate over whether college was a worthwhile investment centered on graduation rates and student debt, with Kirk arguing a majority of well-paying jobs no longer required a four-year degree.