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| No one cried when children were massacred in schools. No one cried when Palestinians are killed by Israel. You want us to cry for a bigot. Are we supposedly going to honor bigots and hateology? |
Y'all voted for this.
And here's the endgame.
Civil war.
World War III.
They really want to see the left become violent. Because what they are doing will not only spark more politicial violence but also making President Donald J. Trump's proposed "Golden Age" collapse.
These fools need to put the energy on the shooter, his family, the governor of Utah Spencer Cox, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. John Curtis (R-UT), the U.S. House members of the state and the state legislature. They are the ones who advocate for firearms on college campuses. They are the ones who believe the Second Amendment is more important than people dying from gun violence.
Erika Kirk may think her husband's horrible legacy will be remembered. Give it about 50 years and he will be just like that Alabama governor who stood at the doorway of the University of Alabama denying Black students entry.
What was his name?
George Wallace.
Wallace survived a near assassination. He was paralyzed from the waist down but managed to carry forth his views until his death. He was shot by a white man.
Wallace had somewhat denounced his segregationist views and formally apologized to the Black community.
The whole getting people fired for mocking the tragic attack shows how the Republicans are willing to sabotage the country. That means more people out of work which leads to more economic uncertainty. More folks will resort to lawsuits against the instigators, violence towards the instigators, violence towards their employers, violence towards the workers who got them fired and violence towards the agitators who called for their firing.
When a person's death in a high profile incident like a shooting is lionized in the junk food media, the sides get to blaming.
The shooter was a white man. It wasn't a Black man, a Muslim, an immigrant or a transgender person. Why you got to lump them in this white on white violence?
These agitators calling for violence, revenge, firings and public shaming are well within their right to do so. But don't get upset when the tables turn. Or when the next shooting involves them.
These agitators on the far right are not going to risk their lives or freedom. They are counting on the mentally disturbed and emotionally unstable to do their work.
Scott Presler, Laura Loomer, Riley Gaines, Blaire White, Derrick Evans, Joey Saladino, Hermes, Eric Daughetry, Paul Szypula, Roseanne Barr, Steve Bannon, James Woods, Catturd, CJ Pearson, Steven Crowder, Tomi Lahren, Jack Poesobic, Jacob Wahl, Nick Fuentes, Terrence K. Williams, Ian Miles Cheong, Lindy Li, Andy Ngo, Olivia Krolcyzk, Brandon Tatum, Candace Owens, Nick Sorter, Gunther Eagleman, Chaya Raichik, Meghan McCain, Tim Pool, Megyn Kelly, Amir Odom, Jesse Watters, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin, Steve Bannon, Myron Gaines, Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson, Eylon Levy, Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones, Owen Shroyer, Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Kevin Hodge, Keith Hodge, Bill Maher, Amber Rose, Greg Gutfeld, David Limbaugh, Gordon Robertson, Ali Alexander, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Matt Walsh, Benny Johnson, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge, Mike Lindell, Matt Gaetz, Vince Langman, Brian Kilmeade, Glenn Beck, Sean Davis, Ian Jaegar, Christopher Rufo, Joey Mannarino, Sean "Softball" Hannity and every far right agitator are scared of being taken out by a gunman. They are scared that the bullet won't miss. They want you to risk your freedom or your life to protect their right to gas you up to commit unspeakable crimes against one another.
A smattering of commentators – including ordinary people joking about and sometimes celebrating Kirk’s death to lawmakers and pundits dwelling on his history of bigoted rhetoric – has also surfaced, only to be targeted in organized campaigns.
At least 15 people have been fired or suspended from their jobs after discussing the killing online, according to a Reuters tally based on interviews, public statements and local press reports. The total includes journalists, academic workers and teachers. On Friday, a junior Nasdaq employee was fired over her posts related to Kirk.
Others have been subjected to torrents of online abuse or seen their offices flooded with calls demanding they be fired, part of a surge in right-wing rage that has followed the killing.
Some Republicans want to go further still and have proposed deporting Kirk’s critics from the United States, suing them into penury or banning them from social media for life.
“Prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death,” said conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a prominent ally of President Donald Trump and one of several far-right figures who are organizing digital campaigns on X, the social media site, to ferret out and publicly shame Kirk’s critics.
U.S. lawmaker Clay Higgins said in a post on X that anyone who “ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man” needed to be “banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.” The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on the same site that he had been disgusted to “see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event, and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action.”
Republicans’ anger at those disrespecting Kirk’s legacy contrasts with the mockery some of the same figures – including Kirk – directed at past victims of political violence.
For example, when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul was clubbed over the head by a hammer-wielding conspiracy theorist during a break-in at their San Francisco home shortly before the 2022 midterm elections, Higgins posted a photo making fun of the attack. He later deleted the post.
WEBSITE “EXPOSE CHARLIE’S MURDERERS” REGISTERED
The murderer is a white man. Not a troll. Not a doctor. Not a health care provider. Not a teacher. Not a public worker. Not a television presenter.
The campaign to fire Kirk’s critics has not slowed. Calls to run people out of jobs have flooded across X. A newly registered site, “Expose Charlie’s Murderers,” has 41 names of people it alleged were “supporting political violence online” and claims to be working on a backlog of more than 20,000 submissions.
A Reuters review of the screenshots and comments posted to the site shows that some of those featured joked about or celebrated Kirk’s death. One was quoted as saying, “He got what he deserved” and others were quoted providing variations on “karma’s a bitch.” Others, however, were critical of the far-right figure while explicitly denouncing violence.
Still others appear to have done little more than point out that a longtime gun control foe had been shot to death. At least three accurately quoted Kirk’s 2023 comments in which he told a crowd that some gun deaths were “worth it,” saying that the annual drumbeat of firearms-related killings in the United States was “a prudent deal” in exchange for the Constitution’s Second Amendment.
One person who was featured on the site said their employer had been bombarded by phone calls, with callers threatening not to let up until they were fired or disciplined. The person said they plan to avoid the office in the coming days.
“To be very, very clear, I don’t condone the murder of Charlie Kirk,” the person told Reuters in a phone call, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid further harassment. “But I do, at the same time, have to appreciate the irony of this situation,” they said, referring to Kirk being shot through the neck with a rifle following years of vociferous opposition to gun control.
Reuters could not establish who is running the website. The site did not respond to questions about its ownership, methodology, or why quoting Kirk accurately could be seen as “supporting political violence.” Squarespace, the site’s host, did not return messages seeking comment.
Jay Childers, an associate professor of communications at the University of Kansas, said there was a long history of government officials and political elites attempting to control rhetoric and suppress dissent.
“I do not think this moment is really new in that sense,” he said, although he noted that “the ability for anyone to post their thoughts on the internet certainly makes far more people potential targets of any attempts to control political speech.”
About 85% of Black Americans refuse to honor Kirk. You can lower flags, make tributes and honors toward him. Black America doesn't want nothing to do with it.
Anyone from the progressive side saying that we have to have empathy for this person are not our allies. Selective grievance towards a man who would never honor the victims of Buffalo, Charleston and Sandy Hook is not worth it.
If I or anyone else loses their jobs for expressing opinions, okay. Fine.
I will not be deterred. It will make me more aggressive and willing to use my platform to get people motivated to vote the noise out and financially break folks like Laura Loomer, Scott Presler and Chaya Raichik.
They are likely going to face lawsuits and boycotts.
Black people really have to keep our heads down. Because the far right is still trying to find ways to blame us.
The free speech debate will be another fight to deal with.
