And hell, call their employer.” But many of those being canceled didn’t “celebrate” Kirk’s death; instead, they called out his “history of making racist, misogynist, and homophobic remarks.” One Oklahoma teacher was investigated for writing, “Charlie Kirk died the same way he lived: bringing out the worst in people.” Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah was fired for posts lamenting the country’s gun culture and reminding her audience that Kirk said Black women like Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson don’t “have the brain processing power” to succeed without affirmative action. Cooke in National Review, but there’s a chasm “between cheering someone’s death and offering a political opinion.” Some people did express happiness that Kirk had been assassinated, which is a rejection of “the classically liberal order atop which the United States has been painstakingly built.” Those individuals should suffer the consequences of endorsing murder. In recent years, the Left “started a cultural revolution” aiming to make it “socially unacceptable to disagree with them.” Now “the Right is doing precisely the same thing.” Seemingly innocent people are getting swept up, like the manager of a Texas Roadhouse in Florida who was fired because his wife allegedly called Kirk a “Nazi.” Cancel culture is the attempt to bully everyone into accepting “one faction’s cultural preferences,” said Nick Catoggio in The Dispatch.
Author: theweekonlineeditors@futurenet.com (The Week US) , The Week US
Published at: 2025-09-22 21:25:24
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