Not quoted out of context
Yeah it was. He didn't discuss his comment, he discussed the entity that quoted him.
It's up to us to decide if he was misguided.
Without access to the primary source, I can't honestly decide if I find him misguided. I wonder what he really meant! He keeps saying to go listen to the podcast, but I can't find it.
I don't know, @owasco, Kirk says,quoting Wired
Then Kirk says, as an aside,
Then, also his (Kirk's) view
Kirk as an aside, again,
That's the case for me. All that verbiage around these statements, the joking. That just softens the impact of the words.
What that author was doing was responsible journalism. He had published a piece that covered a meeting Kirk had in which he made these statement. The author was verifying that Kirk had indeed made the statements. Here is the article:
https://archive.li/xIqmw
The author was just checking his sources. He knows there are people such as you and I who believe nothing we hear. So, he checked with Charlie Kirk. That's the context. Kirk was verifying that the contents of that article were true. That's all. Whether you agree with Kirk or not, that's what he said.
From that article (which might be the very one Kirk ridicules in the Rumble video):
I want to hear him defend it. Maybe he can convince me, or render me more open to his thoughts.