I'm willing to bet that Charlie just thought this would be the "safe" opinion to tout that the majority of his followers agree with in the heat of the moment and it backfired immensely.
I feel like this is something Kaya (and maybe Andrew and Jackson), one of his co-hosts on the Official Podcast is going to rake him over the coals about in private, and maybe peak him.
The way he spoke about it certainly sounded like someone who is uninformed and has no idea wtf they are talking about - this is certainly something I could see myself saying 8 or so years ago before I learned what is actually involved in troonery.