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Attiah's reference to Kirk's statement is a paraphrase that omits key context, effectively presenting it as a direct claim he made about Black women's intelligence, when Kirk was instead critiquing what he saw as hypocritical standards in political rhetoric.

The full quote comes from a July 13, 2023, episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, where Kirk was discussing Democratic criticisms of white judicial nominees (like those under Trump) as "affirmative action" selections lacking merit. He argued this was acceptable when aimed at whites but would be deemed racist if reversed. Specifically, he said: "If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would be called every name in the book... You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You have to go steal a white person's brain." Here, the "brain processing power" line is Kirk mocking or illustrating the implication of the "affirmative action" label when applied to Black women, not a standalone assertion of his own view on their intelligence. He was highlighting what he viewed as a double standard, not endorsing the racist trope outright.

Attiah's Bluesky post summarized it as Kirk claiming "Black women such as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and former Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee did not have the 'brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.'" This strips away the hypothetical framing, making it sound like a direct quote from Kirk.

In her Substack response after the firing, Attiah acknowledged this as "a misquote, one that a journalist should have fact-checked more rigorously," but defended it as capturing the "essence" of his rhetoric on racial hierarchies. Critics called it a deliberate distortion to inflame racial tensions post-assassination.[/quote]

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