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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,900 posts)
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:51 PM 13 hrs ago

Erika Kirk tells Hillsdale graduates to 'have more kids than you can afford' and anti women nonsense

Erika Kirk told graduating students at Hillsdale College
in Michigan on Saturday, 9 May, that they should 'have more kids than you can afford,' urging the class of 2025 to marry young and embrace what she described as God‑given roles for men and women.

"To the men, you are called to provide, you are called to lead, to anchor your families in strength and consistency. To the women, you are called to nurture, to build, to shape lives with wisdom and endurance."

The choice of Erika Kirk as commencement speaker was controversial even before she reached the podium.

The student newspaper, The Collegian
, reported that some in the graduating class felt her invitation shifted the focus away from their academic achievement and towards the modern conservative movement that her husband helped to shape.



https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/erika-kirk-commencement-speech-hillsdale-college-1796360

This is a women who willingly shackled herself to a man that believed women’s only purpose was to cook, clean, and give birth. Definitely not going to be known as a source of wisdom

Please, please, please keep this idiot out of the public eye. Nobody should be taking any kind of advice from Erika!

Seems like the women in the MAGA cult are pushing the idea that the obvious purpose for women in the MAGA movement is to focus on being breeders. Erica Kirk it seems is hardly ever home so who is raising her little ones?

.https://www.reddit.com/r/USNEWS/comments/1tb4od7/erika_kirk_tells_college_grads_to_have_more_kids/

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Erika Kirk tells Hillsdale graduates to 'have more kids than you can afford' and anti women nonsense (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 13 hrs ago OP
Cool, is Erika offering to help out those who can't afford to feed and clothe their kids? tanyev 13 hrs ago #1
No, not a chance, she will do her best to kill help for the poor Walleye 13 hrs ago #5
They went to Hillsdale... Clearly it should resonate JT45242 13 hrs ago #2
Having Erika Kirk give your Commencement speech really rounds out the Hillsdale experience underpants 12 hrs ago #11
After the D.C. incident GCG 13 hrs ago #3
These are the women I hate the most Walleye 13 hrs ago #4
that seems irresponsible eShirl 13 hrs ago #6
"have more kids than you can afford" is so stupid, yet flvegan 13 hrs ago #7
Unless you are Black or Brown! nt Ilsa 4 hrs ago #21
Handmaid's Tale lives NewHendoLib 13 hrs ago #8
It's a fucking cult. Initech 12 hrs ago #9
Why isn't she still having kids? underpants 12 hrs ago #10
..... every nine months Erika should plop,.. magicarpet 12 hrs ago #13
Hillsdale is a bastion of nazi-ism. bif 12 hrs ago #12
Hillsdale isn't exactly a place where women go to get a real education. lees1975 12 hrs ago #14
This is the "college" where Pat Sajak is now the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Permanut 12 hrs ago #15
Go home and STFU if that's how you feel. milestogo 9 hrs ago #16
Well, she better get busy, then... Iggo 7 hrs ago #17
Let me guess. White audience carpetbagger 6 hrs ago #18
"Seems like the women in the MAGA cult are pushing the idea that the obvious purpose for women in the MAGA movement...." A HERETIC I AM 6 hrs ago #19
"some in the graduating class felt her invitation shifted the focus away from their academic achievement" RPM 4 hrs ago #20

tanyev

(49,633 posts)
1. Cool, is Erika offering to help out those who can't afford to feed and clothe their kids?
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:54 PM
13 hrs ago

🤨

JT45242

(4,116 posts)
2. They went to Hillsdale... Clearly it should resonate
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:56 PM
13 hrs ago

Hillsdale like bob jones university pushes this crap all the time.

There is no achievement in getting a degree from Hillsdale, they were supposed to be getting the MRS degree.

If you didn't think that way, why did you stay at indoctrination college?

underpants

(197,100 posts)
11. Having Erika Kirk give your Commencement speech really rounds out the Hillsdale experience
Wed May 13, 2026, 02:15 PM
12 hrs ago

doesn’t it?

Spot on post. 👍

Walleye

(45,353 posts)
4. These are the women I hate the most
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:57 PM
13 hrs ago

The ones who disparage feminism and call us names. Yet they take advantage of every breakthrough we’ve ever made. She’s out earning her own money, promoting herself, she’s not staying home. Special place in hell for these girls

flvegan

(66,499 posts)
7. "have more kids than you can afford" is so stupid, yet
Wed May 13, 2026, 02:04 PM
13 hrs ago

so American in nature, I can't stand it.

magicarpet

(19,374 posts)
13. ..... every nine months Erika should plop,..
Wed May 13, 2026, 02:23 PM
12 hrs ago

.... another one out. It is the Godly thing to do,.... read and study your Bible. Be fruitful and veggitize.

lees1975

(7,182 posts)
14. Hillsdale isn't exactly a place where women go to get a real education.
Wed May 13, 2026, 02:27 PM
12 hrs ago

It's a broken down, financially strapped, ideologically isolated school in a remote corner of Michigan. It's a pseudo-Christian school, having a lot of the trappings of a faith-based campus, but lacking in any real understanding or practice of the Christian gospel.

carpetbagger

(5,514 posts)
18. Let me guess. White audience
Wed May 13, 2026, 08:21 PM
6 hrs ago

Because if it's Black people having more kids than they can afford...

A HERETIC I AM

(24,899 posts)
19. "Seems like the women in the MAGA cult are pushing the idea that the obvious purpose for women in the MAGA movement...."
Wed May 13, 2026, 08:55 PM
6 hrs ago

"is to focus on being breeders."


You know why that is, don't you?

Because white conservative dominance in the USA is on the wrong side of the decades long demographic shift.

That's why they are outlawing abortion and trying to ethnic cleanse the United States from brown people.

The statistics are against white, protestant majority rule and they know it. And well, they just can't have that now, can they?

The right wing powers that be need more and more badly educated white parents having more and more little white children that will be badly educated so that they will continue to vote for conservatives and keep the status quo.

Well educated white people with access to birth control and rational family planning tend to have a normal amount of children (I realize "normal amount" is subjective) and are more affluent, better educated and vote liberal in large numbers.

And they just cant have that either, now can they?

White capitalists in this country would be more than happy to go back to the days when your average working class white family looked like this;




Fuck Erika Kirk, fuck Turning Point USA and fuck every right wing douchebag that thinks she has a point.

RPM

(5,665 posts)
20. "some in the graduating class felt her invitation shifted the focus away from their academic achievement"
Wed May 13, 2026, 10:53 PM
4 hrs ago

well.... i guess they weren't paying attention.

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