Epoch Times - Rob Schneider on Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
Aired: 2025-12-20
Duration: 02:44


=== Let's Challenge Ourselves (02:18) ===

[00:00:00]  When I went to Berkeley, which there was a riot last week, and I was supposed to go with Charlie Kirk, and I asked him over the summer, I said, let's do another university.
[00:00:10]  It was so fun, you know?
[00:00:11]  And it was fun because you had people challenging us.
[00:00:16]  To be a vibrant society, we must be able to be challenged.
[00:00:19]  We've got to challenge ourselves.
[00:00:22]  And as the great Andrew Doyle says, we must challenge our certainties.
[00:00:27]  We must, because we must, we can't have a firm foundational belief system that's unchallenged.
[00:00:33]  Then it'll be static.
[00:00:34]  I mean, to continue to be creative, to continue to innovate, to continue to be a vibrant culture, we must allow these challenges.
[00:00:41]  So I said, Charlie, let's go.
[00:00:43]  Let me, I'm going to go to the craziest place.
[00:00:45]  And he said, well, let's go to Berkeley.
[00:00:48]  And so we went.
[00:00:50]  I mean, he was murdered in front of his children.
[00:00:54]  And I'm not quite sure how to filter that.
[00:01:01]  There seems to be such a dis-ease in our culture and a lack of the most basic human dignity, compassion for this man and what happened after.
[00:01:20]  It exposed so much ugliness in our culture that I don't think it's always been there.
[00:01:25]  I think we're at a point where somehow that is accepted by a large group of the populace.
[00:01:34]  So I went alone after his murder and I went with his mentor, Frank Turek, and there was a group of people at Berkeley who rioted outside and set off tear gas and devices that sounded like gunfire,
[00:01:54]  threw things, spit at people, and the police and the Berkeley, the University of Cal Berkeley, to their great shame, did not prevent those people from interfering.

=== Fall Into Censorship Abyss (00:41) ===

[00:02:07]  And I include the Berkeley police in that they did not allow a corridor to get everybody in there.
[00:02:15]  And that's very shameful because that is 1964.
[00:02:18]  That was the free speech movement and universities.
[00:02:21]  And it wasn't for just one side.
[00:02:22]  It was all sides.
[00:02:23]  So for them to fall so deeply off that precipice against and to fall into an abyss of censorship is shameful and unfortunate.
[00:02:38]  But it exposes where we're at, at least.
[00:02:42]  And I think I'd rather have it out in the open.