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Categories: Socialism Sucks
March 27, 2019

Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens bring Turning Point's message to the United Kingdom, launching Turning Point UK with a live event at an Olympic stadium. Fresh from what Kirk calls "one of the dumbest interviews of my life with the BBC," the duo addresses packed crowds about free market capitalism, western civilization, and combating identity politics. They're joined by British influencers George Farmer, Steven Edgington, Dominique Samuels, and Chloe Westley to discuss Brexit, the rise of Socialism under Jeremy Corbyn's Labor Party, and why conservative activism must expand beyond America's borders. The event tackles media bias, victim mentality versus victor mentality, and the urgent need for young people to reclaim educational and cultural institutions from far-left ideology.

A Rocky Start with British Media

Charlie Kirk opened the Turning Point UK launch event with an immediate rebuke of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Standing before a crowd at what would become the organization's first major UK gathering, Kirk didn't mince words about his recent media encounter. "I just had one of the dumbest interviews of my life with the BBC," he announced to audience applause. "I thought CNN was bad. BBC, run for their money."

Candace Owens, who joined Kirk onstage, elaborated on the frustrating experience. The BBC interviewer, according to Owens, came with a predetermined narrative rather than genuine questions about Turning Point UK's mission. "They're all ready to put out articles that are against us and we haven't even spoken yet," Owens explained. "And she's like, what makes you think that our news organizations are biased? And I said, have you read, we haven't even gotten here yet, we haven't sat down, we haven't said a single word. Have you read a single positive piece of news about TPUK?"

The interview questions focused on climate change and decade-old Trump controversies rather than the organization's core values or plans for UK campuses. "Why are you asking me about climate change? What about Turning Point is about climate change?" Owens challenged. "There's eight million hits if you Google my name, we've done 200 hours of college campuses just over the last year. 200 hours and we've never once spoken about climate change."

Destination Journalism and Media Bias

Kirk identified what he called "destination journalism" as the problem plaguing modern media outlets. "They have the headline in mind before they even start asking the questions," he explained. "The headline they wanted to make for Candace Owens tonight was Climate Change Denying, Trump Sync-a-fat American Activist Comes to UK to Tell Them How to Live Their Life, and she said, no, no, no. I'm not gonna give you that headline, we're gonna have a conversation."

Both speakers emphasized their lack of respect for media institutions that operate as weapons for the far left rather than gatekeepers of fairness. "The media is supposed to be the gatekeepers of fairness," Kirk noted. "They're supposed to go and ask objective questions and allow dialogue, debate, and discussion so that all viewpoints can be appropriately heard." Instead, he praised President Trump for identifying this problem and going around traditional media using social networks like Twitter.

The Origins and Mission of Turning Point

Kirk provided background on how Turning Point USA began six and a half years earlier from his parents' garage, built around three core ideas: that the US Constitution is the greatest political document ever written, that free market capitalism is the greatest and most moral economic system ever discovered, and American exceptionalism. For the UK expansion, they broadened the mission slightly to emphasize that western civilization represents the greatest experiment humans have ever engaged in.

The organization's explosive growth led to presence on 1,400 high school and college campuses across America, with Kirk and Owens completing over 200 hours of live programming together in a single year. Friends in the UK began requesting they bring their platform across the Atlantic. "We're so honored to be here," Kirk said. "We believe student activism is critical, and that the left cannot have a monopoly on the student's mind."

Their core conviction remains that ideas embedded in the Democrat Socialist wing in America and the Labor Party in the UK are dangerous and corrosive to functioning economies and cultures. They stand firmly against these ideas while offering market-based solutions.

The Oppression Olympics and Identity Politics

Owens introduced the concept of "Oppression Olympics," where people compete to claim greater victimhood. "Oh well, you're a man, but I'm a woman and so I'm more oppressed. Oh, but I'm a black woman so I'm more oppressed. Well, I'm a black disabled woman, so I'm more oppressed. Oh, I'm a black, gay, disabled woman, so I'm the most oppressed," she illustrated. "And everyone's very excited because they're oppressed."

This phenomenon particularly affects black Americans, who Owens argues are convinced they must be Democrats without paying proper attention to politics. When Donald Trump announced his presidential run, Owens admitted she wasn't initially a supporter and even leaned toward Bernie Sanders. But the media's sudden reversal on Trump, who had been celebrated in hip-hop culture and by celebrities for decades, forced her to ask a critical question: "Is it possible that racism is now being used as a theme to turn black people into single issue voters?"

Owens launched a YouTube channel to present different perspectives to the black community, asking whether perpetual victimhood truly serves their interests. The left's reaction was severe. "I can say for the first time in my life I saw real racism," she reflected. "I saw what it means if you have the authority to say that I'm not going to allow you to use bits and pieces of who I am, whether that be black, whether that be woman, whether that be straight, whether that be gay to confine me to what I must think."

Feminism, Masculinity, and Cultural Division

Both speakers addressed the radicalization of feminism and the attack on masculinity. Owens proudly declared she is not a feminist, receiving strong applause. "They sort of radicalize it, and they go after men, and they're trying to divide us," she explained. The left's strategy, according to both speakers, involves dividing people along every possible line: if you're short, blame tall people; if you're poor, blame rich people; if you're black, blame white people.

The BBC interviewer expressed surprise at one of Owens' tweets stating she loves masculinity. "Yes, I love masculinity. A society needs strong men," Owens affirmed without apology. Kirk added that "feminism has become much more about hating men than empowering women."

They identified a bizarre trend of white guilt where white progressives attack white conservatives, telling them to shut up because they're white. "It's white on white crime," Owens joked. "But it's bizarre and this is where we're at where they feel virtue in hating themselves."

The Trump Success Story

Kirk provided a detailed update on Trump's achievements, countering negative media narratives in the UK. The administration has delivered the lowest ever black unemployment, lowest disabled unemployment, lowest Hispanic and Latino unemployment, and lowest Asian unemployment. Black poverty is at its lowest rate, with 500% growth in black-run businesses. The economy maintains a 3% GDP rate with six million jobs created since inauguration.

Manufacturing has returned with half a million jobs, and the United States achieved energy independence, now exporting more oil than importing. "Don't believe the media on that regard," Kirk urged. The media predicted war in North Korea, stock market crashes, economic collapse, and chaos in the black community. "No, actually we're closer to peace than ever before," Kirk noted. "We've had 99 record highs. We have the best GDP numbers in 60 years. The black community is doing better than ever before."

He drew parallels to Brexit: "If the ruling class says you're gonna see catastrophe, you know prosperity is around the corner if you do the exact opposite of what they're trying to tell you to do."

Victor Versus Victim Mentality

Owens shared her grandfather's story to illustrate victor mentality. He grew up in the segregated South, starting work at age five pulling tobacco in an attic. The real KKK shot bullets into his home. Yet he never expressed anger toward white people, worked hard his entire life, and eventually retired owning the same sharecropping farm where he began. "That is the American dream," Owens emphasized. "If you work hard, you can overcome anything that you're going through."

She finds it absurd that the most privileged people in American history claim greater oppression than their ancestors. Black Lives Matter, she argues, consists of "over privileged Americans" who are "statistically and factually wrong about everything." On college campuses, Kirk and Owens ask students how many believe America in 2019 is more racist than the 1940s. Half the hands go up.

"You cannot make a sound argument that society is worse off today than we were under Jim Crow in America, and segregation in America when there were white only and black only fountains," Owens stated. Yet people make this argument because "the media has the ability to completely delude people against reality."

The Hero's Journey and Western Values

Kirk explained that western society embodies the Hero's Journey, a narrative where people start with little to nothing, face adversity, overcome it, and succeed. This story appears in Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, resonating because it reflects reality in free societies. "The individual is what built the west," Kirk declared. "It's not the collective, it's not group identity based on victimhood."

He contrasted this with the left's vision: "Harry Potter lived underneath the stairwell, and he applied for government programs, went to local community college, rejected his letter to the School of Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry, went through some sort of Medieval Dance Theory class, and then worked at Starbucks as a Barista. No one's gonna read that story!"

The left sells "this horribly miserable dwelling in mediocrity vision" rather than celebrating individual achievement. Every other culture has focused on empowering elites and ruling classes while suppressing everyone else. Western civilization stands alone in elevating the individual.

British Voices Join the Movement

The event featured three British influencers who shared their perspectives. Steven Edgington works for Leave Means Leave and started making YouTube videos about Brexit four years earlier. Some videos received hundreds of thousands of views. He emphasized that Brexit represents Britain's "Trump moment," an opportunity to escape unelected Brussels bureaucracy.

"It's like being in China. It's like being in China where they have Technocracy. You can't even elect the people that are in charge of us and the people that are proposing laws," Edgington explained. He announced a 300-mile march from Sunderland to London to demand Brexit delivery, warning that failure would leave 17.4 million people livid.

Dominique Samuels shared her journey from voting for Jeremy Corbyn in 2016 to becoming conservative. Her mother ran a cleaning company, often cleaning houses of children who attended the good school where Dominique studied. "I thought that Labor was the only political home for me, because how could I possibly as a black woman support the conservative party?" she recalled.

Research changed her mind. She found Labor's policies "absolutely nonsensical, economically illiterate" and more concerned with global issues than the UK itself. "They seemed more concerned with treating patriotism as if it's a dirty word in the UK in 2019," she noted. She's been called an Uncle Tom numerous times, which "reveals the racism of the left. As a black woman, I can think any way I please."

Chloe Westley from the Tax Payers Alliance emphasized freedom as her core value. "You wouldn't be allowed to come in here and debate politics" in most societies throughout history or many places today, she noted. She rejects far-left ideologies because "they actually are about owning people. I don't think anybody should be owned by anybody else."

She criticized how the left treats people as group identities rather than individuals. "You are not your skin color, or your gender, or your accent. There's only one thing that defines you in this world, and that is your choices," Westley declared.

Spirited Question and Answer Session

The event opened to audience questions, with Kirk and Owens encouraging disagreement. The first question challenged funding transparency for both Turning Point UK and the Tax Payers Alliance. George Farmer, chairman of Turning Point UK and Owens' fiance, responded directly.

"If there's some secret dark money out there please come and have a chat with me, because we are desperately short of funds," Farmer said. He pointed out that no pressure group or think tank in the UK, whether left or right, discloses funders unless they're political parties. "Nobody talks about who funds the left," he noted, questioning who funds Momentum and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign.

Turning Point UK receives funding from UK business donors who prefer anonymity to avoid being "absolutely crucified" as Tory donors typically are. Meanwhile, unions write massive checks to Labor without scrutiny. Kirk supported this position, noting the left uses "intimidation, harassment, mob tactics, and boycotts" against patriots, wanting donor disclosure to organize boycotts and restaurant protests.

A question about artificial intelligence and automation's impact on labor markets led Kirk to compare it to historical technological transitions. People worried about rickshaws when cars arrived, street light lighters when electricity emerged. "Worry is a misuse of imagination," Kirk stated. "These things tend to correct themselves, and that's what history has shown over and over again. Markets work."

The most heated exchange came with a libertarian advocating open borders. He challenged the consistency of opposing group identity while qualifying people by nationality. Owens walked him through logic about Saudi Arabia's treatment of women and homosexuals, asking if he believed those with such beliefs should flood into western countries and vote their values into law.

When he maintained his open borders position, Kirk challenged his consistency: "How many refugees do you have in your apartment?" The questioner called this illogical, but Kirk pressed: "I live everything I believe, you don't." The exchange highlighted fundamental disagreements about national identity, cultural compatibility, and practical limits of libertarian ideology.

The Path Forward

A local conservative party chairman, representing Winston Churchill's former constituency, addressed the leadership vacuum. "The leadership of the conservative party are not conservatives," he declared to applause. "They are quite happy to go along with the censorship. They're quite happy to put all these rules, really, they're just labor party light."

His solution: young people must join local parties and change them from within through numbers. Labor has ten times as many people canvassing for elections. Conservative party membership is tiny and needs support. He also advised disconnecting TVs and refusing to pay BBC license fees.

Another questioner expressed concern that despite agreeing with Turning Point's message, the left has comprehensively taken over education, politics, media, and now private corporations through identity politics dogma. The road back seems long.

Westley responded that a silent majority disagrees with identity politics and far-left Socialism but fears speaking out due to demonization. "We're the majority of public opinion that's being treated like a minority and a sideshow on TV," she explained. "We just need to be braver." If everyone who agreed spoke up tomorrow, half or more of the country would reveal itself as conservative.

Owens emphasized focusing on repairing nuclear families and cultural change rather than protest. She sees black Americans as "an unused currency in America" who haven't been active in the American dream. Dropping four million people from food stamps under Trump represents progress. Repairing families where "mom, dad, daughter, son" have dinner together, which "radicalized feminism wants to destroy," will improve everything.

The event concluded with Kirk and Owens expressing gratitude to the Turning Point UK team for organizing the week's events and emphasizing their mission: creating alternative media, reclaiming culture for conservatives, promoting strong families, and preventing government overreach that removes freedoms. The launch represented not just an organization's expansion but a transatlantic conservative movement's determination to combat Socialism and identity politics wherever they threaten western civilization.

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