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(108,072 posts) Mon Feb 14, 2022, 04:28 PM Feb 2022

Liberals & Conservatives Unite to Dunk on Charlie Kirk for Calling Super Bowl Halftime Show 'Sexual

Anarchy'

The the Super Bowl halftime show was, by most accounts, a huge success. “Well, that was awesome,” wrote Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield of the Los Angeles-centric medley. “The Super Bowl halftime show finally opened up to hip-hop — this was the first time the rappers got to bumrush center stage, instead of serving as a sideshow.”

Charlier Kirk, the trollish founder of the conservative group Turning Point USA known for railing against cancel culture, was not a fan. “The NFL is now the league of sexual anarchy,” he tweeted. “This halftime show should not be allowed on television.”

Link to tweet

It’s unclear what exactly triggered Kirk here. Mary J. Blige wore an outfit that exposed her bare thighs. There was some dancing, but it was pretty tame. Perhaps he got a little flustered at the sight of 50 Cent’s built upper body. Regardless, the show certainly didn’t feature anything warranting calls of “sexual anarchy,” at least not any more so than previous halftime shows led by white performers. Kirk did make a similar complaint in 2020, when he tweeted that the performance from Jennifer Lopez and Shakira was a “horrendous example to the millions of young women across the world” because it featured “pole dancing.”

Kirk’s tweet on Sunday was so comically prude that prominent commentators of all ideologies came together, at least for this one fleeting moment, to mock him.