Politics & Power Quote by Charlie Kirk

“We have been indoctrinated” is doing the heavy lifting here: it turns a disagreement about norms into a narrative of capture. Charlie Kirk isn’t just critiquing “political correctness”; he’s alleging a covert curriculum, a top-down project that rewires perception itself. That’s a shrewd move because it relocates the argument from policy to epistemology. If people have been “indoctrinated,” then dissenters aren’t merely contrarian; they’re awake. Everyone else becomes less wrong than programmed.

The phrase “politically correct lens” is equally strategic. A “lens” suggests mediation, distortion, selective focus. It implies there is a truer, unfiltered reality on the other side, and that Kirk’s camp has access to it. The subtext is a populist inversion: institutions that claim to educate (universities, media, HR departments, even certain bureaucratic speech codes) are recast as indoctrinating machines. That framing sidesteps the messy fact that social norms are always taught; the real debate is which norms, by whom, and with what accountability.

Contextually, this line fits a post-2010 conservative media ecosystem that treats “PC” less as etiquette and more as social control: language policing, cancellation, and corporate DEI folded into a single villain. It also primes a moral alibi. If you’ve been “indoctrinated,” then discomfort with certain words or jokes isn’t empathy or pluralism; it’s evidence of manipulation. The payoff is political: delegitimize elite arbiters of discourse, rally supporters around a shared sense of grievance, and present culture-war conflict as liberation rather than backlash.