Many Educators Revel over Charlie Kirk’s Death
A teacher in Greenville, South Carolina, is “no longer employed” after the district claimed that, following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he posted on social media that “America became greater today. There, I said it.”
At Mariposa County High School in California, parents reported that a math teacher known as “Mr. Elm” said he was glad Charlie Kirk was killed and sarcastically told “MAGA kids to go home and cry.”
A teacher at an elementary school in Pasadena, TX, posted on X, “I am not mourning his death, I am actually planning a soirée.”
In Iowa, a teacher was placed on leave for an internet post that read, “1 Nazi down.”
A high school teacher in Oklahoma posted on X that Kirk’s murder was justified by calling him “a racist, misogynist, piece of sh-t.”
In fact, teachers in California, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas have been dismissed or placed on leave amid investigations into alleged social media comments critiquing Kirk and implying approval of Kirk’s death.
In the Lone Star State, the Texas Education Agency declined to say how many public school teachers and staff are being investigated for their comments in the wake of the tragic event. However, as of Sept. 26, it said the number of complaints it had received was over 350. Still, it is not clear exactly how many teachers have been reprimanded and/or lost their jobs over their sadistic schadenfreude.
Many on the left are in a serious snit over the unemployed teachers.
In The Washington Post, Laura Meckler writes, “Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs as conservatives target lessons, speech they dislike.”
Stephanie Saul claims in The New York Times that “Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.”
Teacher union boss Randi Weingarten opines that while Kirk’s death was horrible, “This tragedy is being used to create broad-based censorship and to create a chilling effect on the people who are really trusted in society.”
Okay, if we take a deep breath and step back, we see this is not a constitutional issue. The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
None of the fired teachers lost their jobs because of a Congressional act or anything similar. It’s especially amusing that the same leftists who created cancel culture and speech codes—regulating speech by faculty and students in colleges—are now surprised that teachers face consequences for their words.
It’s also worth noting that this is the same left that idolizes FDR, who established the Federal Communications Commission. It’s the same left that is behind Google’s appearance before Congress, where they are asserting that senior Biden Administration officials “conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and pressed the company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.”
At Mariposa County High School in California, parents reported that a math teacher known as “Mr. Elm” said he was glad Charlie Kirk was killed and sarcastically told “MAGA kids to go home and cry.”
A teacher at an elementary school in Pasadena, TX, posted on X, “I am not mourning his death, I am actually planning a soirée.”
In Iowa, a teacher was placed on leave for an internet post that read, “1 Nazi down.”
A high school teacher in Oklahoma posted on X that Kirk’s murder was justified by calling him “a racist, misogynist, piece of sh-t.”
In fact, teachers in California, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas have been dismissed or placed on leave amid investigations into alleged social media comments critiquing Kirk and implying approval of Kirk’s death.
In the Lone Star State, the Texas Education Agency declined to say how many public school teachers and staff are being investigated for their comments in the wake of the tragic event. However, as of Sept. 26, it said the number of complaints it had received was over 350. Still, it is not clear exactly how many teachers have been reprimanded and/or lost their jobs over their sadistic schadenfreude.
Many on the left are in a serious snit over the unemployed teachers.
In The Washington Post, Laura Meckler writes, “Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs as conservatives target lessons, speech they dislike.”
Stephanie Saul claims in The New York Times that “Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.”
Teacher union boss Randi Weingarten opines that while Kirk’s death was horrible, “This tragedy is being used to create broad-based censorship and to create a chilling effect on the people who are really trusted in society.”
Okay, if we take a deep breath and step back, we see this is not a constitutional issue. The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
None of the fired teachers lost their jobs because of a Congressional act or anything similar. It’s especially amusing that the same leftists who created cancel culture and speech codes—regulating speech by faculty and students in colleges—are now surprised that teachers face consequences for their words.
It’s also worth noting that this is the same left that idolizes FDR, who established the Federal Communications Commission. It’s the same left that is behind Google’s appearance before Congress, where they are asserting that senior Biden Administration officials “conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and pressed the company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.”
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