We are all rightfully angry, and especially disgusted by the awful people who are celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
When we see people celebrating the murder of somebody with whom they disagree, as their bodies are barely cooling after a brutal assassination, it is natural to be outraged and even feel hate.
Think about the psychological profile of a guy who within mere seconds of seeing someone’s neck explode overrides every “There’s a shooter, I should run!” instinct to dance over a warm corpse. You pass people like this at work and the grocery store every day. https://t.co/3qhNCKLWem
— 🦅McKrowComics🦩🏴 (@KellyLovesBirds) September 11, 2025
Disgust. Anger. Hate. Rage. All of these are natural, but when is it reasonable to consciously choose to destroy the lives of ordinary people behaving in appalling ways like this?
“Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Here’s why the people celebrating his murder are the real victims.”
— Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) September 11, 2025
Beyond parody https://t.co/Am1y3WEzAZ
Ordinary people--you know, students, baristas, waiters and waitresses? The answer is "Never." Let their friends chastise them, or just realize that there are awful people out there and move on.
But there is a class of people who not only deserve to be called out, but also be permanently destroyed in their professional careers.
You underplay who these people are. They are doctors, lawyers, teachers, and professors. I don't care about a nasty barista, but when the Dean of a university or an education prof at the University of Michigan is celebrating murder, they gotta go.
— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 11, 2025
We call them "professionals," or "influencers," or "journalists," "educators," "administrators," or more generically, members of the elite class who shape our society and signal to others where the Overton window is. The people we are told to admire and defer to.
You know, the "experts."
What that minister said normalizes political violence.
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) September 12, 2025
She essentially said "he deserved it".
I implore colleagues in the NDP to explain this to her. Hold her accountable.
This is not the way. https://t.co/L0GkYvoWaI
Earlier, I wrote about a University of Michigan Professor at the School of Education. He is fair game because he has assumed a role of authority, and the University of Michigan, the Gates Foundation, and, by extension, the people who have the levers of money and power within their grasp, have endorsed him as their representative to the next generation of people who educate our children.
BREAKING: Benjamin Fillo, a teacher at @bps_ri has been placed on administrative leave after reportedly posting this disgusting video celebrating and mocking Charlie’s m*rder
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 12, 2025
FIRE HIM pic.twitter.com/MQcY1KBhNF
They set the tone of society, and in a very real way, control the flow of information and attitudes that are accepted in society.
BREAKING - A Greensboro, North Carolina, community college professor, Lisa Greenlee of GTCC, has been filmed telling students, “I’ll praise the shooter, he had good aim,” shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, with parents saying administrators have done nothing. pic.twitter.com/oUylXqmTc9
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 11, 2025
Bill Gates just sat next to the First Lady of the United States to discuss technology with Trump and his administration, and his multi-billion-dollar foundation is spreading the message of hate through its grants--to our educators.
You see the results: K-12 teachers are openly celebrating an assassination online, and will turn around and chastise parents for wanting to influence their children's moral education. Because we all know, teachers are "professionals."
Good Morning @gcschools
— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) September 11, 2025
One of your teachers appears to be the openly celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Is this who you entrust the safety and well being of your children to?
Cc @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/ZstS0NITEM
Several lawyers--including partners in law firms--have celebrated Kirk's death. They are officers of the courts, and as such literally have a duty to preserve our society.
Alana B. Hartman-Hall, Dean of Students for Chesterfield County Public Schools, says Charlie Kirk "reaped what he has sown."
— Virginia College Republicans (@vacollegegop) September 11, 2025
Absolutely vile and disgusting words. pic.twitter.com/0hPaPmVG4T
Doctors and nurses--members of the "caring profession"--sent out videos declaring their joy that somebody they disagreed with deserved to die.
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE and #BREAKING: This is a current Secret Service agent, stating in a Facebook post, that Charlie Kirk deserved what he got.
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) September 11, 2025
"You can't circumvent karma, [sic] she doesnt [sic] leave."
The comments are similar to the incendiary remarks now former @MSNBC… pic.twitter.com/XMdTcPHP7k
Prominent media figures blamed Kirk or Trump for the assassination, as they did when Trump was shot. They are giving permission for people to act out their hatred for people who disagree.
The Assistant Dean of Students from my Alma mater, Middle Tennessee State University, has been fired for her disgusting comments about Charlie Kirk. pic.twitter.com/6xCMLGibXZ
— ArmyBrat68 (@ArmyBrat682) September 11, 2025
What these people say or do matters in a way that a barista or DoorDash delivery guy doesn't. They all may be equally vile people, but what your local barista says doesn't shape the conversation in society. They are some rando who smoked too much weed and spouted off.
Utterly appalling. Will the Oxford Union accept this from its leader? What a terrible reflection on the institution. I truly cannot fathom this degree of inhumanity and callousness. https://t.co/YEMfiD9ed5
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 11, 2025
Canceling people for bad behavior or speech if they are not a public figure is wrong because you are punishing people disproportionately to the damage they do to society. All of us say stupid things, and if the stupid thing doesn't matter, then we should frown and perhaps chastise them personally, but we shouldn't destroy them.
He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’. https://t.co/nhssPONaUY
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 11, 2025
But when a major cultural figure just lies to slander somebody with whom he disagrees? He deserves everything he gets, and probably more, in social opprobrium.
Senior administrator at the University of Pennsylvania Michael Mann is on an unhinged generational run on X, reposting comments calling Charlie Kirk the “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 11, 2025
Mann also wrote: “The white on white violence has gotten out of hand.”
Does UPENN agree with… pic.twitter.com/YQy3mfyqxD
People who are in a position of trust--elevated by our culture to a position of power over others--have to be judged to be worthy or not to be in such a position of trust.
Dear @HenryFordHealth — if I am a patient, can I request that this nurse comes nowhere near me? He apparently believes he knows what specific people “deserve.” https://t.co/8mcyNVRCZz
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) September 11, 2025
The standard isn't determined by what they think, but whether they exercise the trust we place in them for good or ill. People like this are clearly a danger to others while in their current positions. If they want to act like a rando, then be one.
This is from a current Secret Service agent—and someone responsible for protecting both Democrats and Republicans from harm.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) September 11, 2025
It goes without saying he cannot be trusted to carry out that mission and should be fired immediately. We cannot sit by and let tragedy strike again. pic.twitter.com/oJQwabwi1b
By accepting a position of authority, they have agreed to exercise it with minimal wisdom. And if they cannot do that, they need to be rejected not because they are bad people--there will always be bad people--but because society cannot put a stamp of approval on bad behavior.
🚨 BREAKING: The Carolina Panthers have FIRED their Communications Coordinator after he celebrated the assasslnation of Charlie Kirk on social media
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 11, 2025
The unemployment line is getting LONG today! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/LU8SeBQT2v
When the Carolina Panthers fire their communications coordinator for his comments, they shouldn't fire him for his private thoughts--but they should fire him because he represents them to the world. He violated the position of trust.
The people celebrating the assassination are just random nobodies like Washington Post staffers, people teaching your children, university professors, aides to elected officials, medical professionals, and prominent talking heads.
— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 11, 2025
Should a therapist be "canceled" for saying vile things in public? Absolutely. Because she belongs nowhere near vulnerable people who are seeking help.
Therapists shouldn't wish death on people with whom they disagree. Can we agree on that, at least?
Missi Kaskie, a "she/her" pro-LGBTQ therapist at Tandem Psychology in Chicago, made a post on her story MOCKING the death of Charlie Kirk.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 10, 2025
This person is responsible for providing for patients' mental health.
Would you trust her with your mental health? pic.twitter.com/neE3WYS7Ts
Should a nurse or doctor be driven out of the profession for wishing death upon somebody? First, do no harm.
They wouldn't be rushing to film themselves saying this if they didn't believe there was a wide audience applauding them and cultural cachet to be had. That is the culture Democrats have fostered. Now they have to take responsibility and un-foster it. Not both sides. Them. https://t.co/enC37Lwsuh
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 11, 2025
I am fully on board with the critique of "cancel culture," but people in positions of trust must be trustworthy, and if they reveal themselves to fall far short of that standard, they must be driven out of their professions.
Still not as bad as @northropgrumman employee Nick Roberts - “for a guy that hates gay people so much, he sure took a hot load to the throat like a champ”. This is a defense contractor that gets billions in taxpayer funds and partners with the @uscoastguard. @NGCNews pic.twitter.com/ltDpFlU3Ps
— Red (@MisanthropeFLA) September 12, 2025
This isn't hard. If you defend an academic, a teacher, a journalist, or a medical professional by denouncing "cancel culture," you have lost the plot.
— Peter de Vietien (@peterdevietien) September 11, 2025
Free speech is an important value, and I don't want to see these people in jail or even personally destroyed for what they think. I may feel compelled to despise them, but plenty of people are despicable and have a right to make a living.
The murder is a horror. What’s especially unsettling, though, is the volume of people in random professions – nurses, teachers, engineers, etc – joyfully celebrating it, using their real names & faces. A bloodthirsty glee for which they feel neither shame nor the need to temper. pic.twitter.com/4mlOwd0FNB
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) September 11, 2025
But if what a person in a position of trust does is so awful that they have broken that trust, they must go. It's not about demanding "justice;" it's about defending others from their ability to use their position of power to do harm.
Middle school teacher at Forest Grove School District in Oregon. pic.twitter.com/lhNVT75IUn
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 11, 2025
If a doctor or nurse is capable of celebrating the death of somebody due to a disagreement over politics, they are a danger. If a teacher is preaching hate to children, they should be fired. If an officer of the court endorses political violence, they should lose their license to practice law. And so on.
Mr. Jefferson is now in the principal’s office. pic.twitter.com/dDON6pHSdk
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 11, 2025
Not because they are bad people, although they are. But because they have violated the trust society puts in them, society must revoke that trust.
🚨 This is deeply troubling. 🚨
— Chester Tam (@islantstudio) September 11, 2025
Laurie Davis, a current Massachusetts teacher at Sharon High School and a former teacher in Middleboro, openly celebrated the death of conservative voice Charlie Kirk on social media.
If this is how she feels publicly, imagine what conservative… pic.twitter.com/TXYWGDLixc
If they want to act like a rando barista or pizza delivery guy who can spout off, so be it. They are welcome to become one. If they want society to trust them, they must act like they deserve it.
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