Pastor Darrell Scott, a radio host and supporter of former President Donald Trump, said Friday that conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is attempting to inspire a new generation of the “Hitler youth.”
Scott, pastor at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland, Ohio, appeared on The Tudor Dixon Podcast, hosted by Dixon, a former Michigan gubernatorial candidate, where they discussed Kirk and another conservative commentator, Candace Owens.
“In those years right after high school but before you enter all the way into full adulthood, those are some critical years in a person’s life,” Scott said. “Those years can make or break the rest of your life…and Charlie is trying to grab them right then and there and form these opinions in their mind of white oppression, white victimhood, Black man bad, white man better. He’s really trying to infect this [Republican] party with that ideology to turn this party into what this party’s detractors say this is.
“I even said he’s trying to raise up a new generation of Hitler youth…I know I was kind of extreme in my statements, but I’m drawing the comparison to him because this guy thinks he’s slick. He thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and he’s not.”
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 15, Scott posted a video on X, formerly Twitter saying, “Happy MLK Day to Charlie Kirk. Here’s a video for him.”
In response to comments in the post, Scott called Kirk a “white supremacist” and a “racist.”
According to MeidasTouch, which calls itself a pro-democracy site and is led by former Georgia prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, Scott wrote in another post to X that Kirk is “targeting young people who are impressionable to become White Supremacists.”
“The modern day ‘Hitler Youth,'” Scott’s post added.
During his appearance on Dixon’s podcast on Friday, Scott further expressed his views on Kirk, saying that he “insinuates that every Black person that you see in a prominent position, that there has to be an air of suspicion about them, that they didn’t really earn this position.”
Scott and Dixon also spoke about Kirk’s recent comments regarding airline pilots.
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like ‘boy, I hope he is qualified,'” Kirk said.
Scott called Kirk’s comment “one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my life,” and added that many of his remarks are “all about clicks.”
Newsweek reached out to Turning Point USA via email for comment from Kirk.
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