Bging Ridge, New Jersey (AP) – after years of complaints from right to “culture culture” from left, some conservatives try to improve the life and career of those that Charlie Kirk reduced after his death. They pursue companies, educators, news agencies, political rivals and others who assess them as promoting hate speeches.
A campaign by civil servants and other law is carried out just a few days after the conservative activist’s death to discharge or punish teachers, an employee of the office, a government agent, a TV expert and the expectation of further layoffs.
Last weekend, the transport secretary Sean Duffy stated that American Airlines had grounded pilots from which he said they celebrated Kirk’s attack.
“This behavior is disgusting and they should be released,” said Duffy on the social media website X.
As chosen civil servants and conservative influencers, Kirk as a warrior for free expression, who campaigned for provocative opinions, also resolved the tactics that they have seen to fell their movement – the demands for burnings, the exclusion, the pressure, to observe what they say.
Such tactics provide a fundamental challenge for a nation that in many reports dangerously of politics and a feeling of moral outrage that helps social media to be dangerously tattered.
The consequences of Kirk’s death have increasingly become a test of public tolerance to political differences. The Republicans not only urge the alleged murderer, but also those whose words they believe contributed to death or revered him. At the same time, some liberals on social media have criticized them, as actress Kristin Chenoweth, who expressed online sympathy about Kirk’s death.
“This pattern that we have seen for decades now seems to have happened much more than ever before,” said Adam Goldstein from the foundation for individual rights and expression. He dates the urge to pursue people at least until September 11, 2001 for their private views on tragedies. “If there was ever time to support the better angels of our nature, it is now.”
Goldstein noticed that it was unpopular language, like people who are worth the assassination attempt to accept the first change – especially when government officials are committed. “The only time that they really support the freedom of speech is when it is unpopular,” said Goldstein. “There is no one out there who tries to prevent people from loving puppies and rabbits.”
The Republican of Utah Governor Spencer Cox pointed out that the motive for the assassination was not confirmed. He said that the suspect, which was taken into custody, had clearly identified with the political left and expressed the aversion to Kirk in front of the shootout. But he and other authorities also say that the suspect was known to be not politically committed.
Kirk was seen as the architect of President Donald Trump’s election from 2024, which helped to expand republican public relations to younger voters. This means that many conservatives see the remarks of liberals more as violence and more of a political expression.
“I think President Trump sees this as an attack on his political movement,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.c., about NBC when he found that the two attacks against Trump and Kirk’s killing. “This is unique and different. This is an attack on movement through violence. And so most Republicans see this.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Who runs for the governor, called for social media for the shots of a deputy dean at Middle Tennessee State University and professors at Austin Pay State University and Cumberland University.
All three lost their work for comments that were classified as inappropriate to express a lack of sympathy or even for pleasure in Kirk’s shootout. One said that Kirk “launched his fate.”
Some NFL teams selected on Sunday to organize a moment of silence for Kirk. In the past, football teams selected the victims after school or an attack on a house of adoration. They also shaped a remarkable death of public personalities, weather-related disasters and international crises such as the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023.
Since the conservatives were previously canceled by liberals because of their views, Trump signed an executive regulation in office on his first day, which prohibits everyone in the federal government, “condemn the speech freedom of an American citizen unconstitutionally”.
In February at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance criticized the previous bidges administration for silence to silence private companies, which turned out to be still, which turned out to be an obvious truth in terms of pandemic. He attacked the European countries to censor political speeches.
“Under Donald Trump’s leadership, we cannot agree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right, to offer it, to offer it, agree or agree in public square,” said Vance at the time.
Nevertheless, the Trump government also stuck immigrants and academics for their speech.
Goldstein noticed that Trump’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned in the minutes after Kirk’s death that it would revoke the visas of foreigners that celebrated Kirk’s attack. “I can’t imagine any other moment when the United States have warned people of their upcoming cancellation,” said Goldstein.
The shimmer of the cross -party agreement according to the assassination was in the sense that social media cheered violence and misinformation in a perilous way.
“I can not emphasize the damage, the social media and the Internet for all of us,” said Cox about NBCS “Meet the Press”. He said: “The most powerful companies in the history of the world have found out how we can hack our brain, addicted to outrage.”
However, many Republican legislators also have classic news media, which Trump criticized for the fact that with his consistent rhetoric painting as an enemy, he contributed to a poisonous political climate.
Responsible for Fox News in the “Sunday morning”, Senator Katie Britt, R-Ala.
Such statements were carried out of Trump’s attempt to overthrow his loss of election in 2020, his forgiveness of rioters on January 6th and a number of political differences. Among them, his deportations, the utilize of the National Guard, the mass shots of the federal employees and his contempt for the historical limits of the presidency.
But for Britt, these expressions were unfair, inexact and triggered violence.
“There must be consequences in terms of people who spit out this type of hatred and celebration in the face of this,” said Britt. “And I think it will be.”
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Riccardi reported from Denver. Jonathan Mattite, the author of Associated Press, contributed to this report from Nashville, Tennessee.
