People are getting fired for quoting Charlie Kirk.
A secret service agent, a Washington Post columnist, university faculty and staff members, Delta, United, and American Airlines employees, are among numerous people across the US who have been fired or put on leave for criticizing Charlie Kirk on social media after his death.
The articles reporting these suspensions and firings are vague on the actual contents of the posts, but I followed a lot of links and found more details.
One poster quoted Kirk’s own words; in a 2023 podcast, he said that Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and other Black women “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously [and] had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” Another stated that Kirk “spewed hate and racism on his show.” Another wrote, “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.”
Stephen King was pressured to apologize after he faced online backlash after he posted that Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin.’” In 2024, Kirk said, “In a lesser referenced part of the same scripture is in Leviticus 18 is that, ‘that shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death.’ Just sayin’,” and called this passage “God’s perfect law.”
An Oklahoma teacher was fired for writing, “Charlie Kirk died the same way he lived: bringing out the worst in people,” which supervisors called “disgraceful rhetoric.”
At the University of Mississippi, a staff member summarized Kirk’s career:
Trans people: “a social contagion.”Gay activists: “the alphabet mafia.”Martin Luther King, Jr: “an awful person.”The Civil Rights Act: “a huge mistake.”Empathy: “a made-up, New Age term that does a lot of damage.”
And perhaps most ironically: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of … some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
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