Kirk Assassination Puts the Left in Danger; US workers fired over Charlie Kirk social media posts
The assassination of far-right personality Charlie Kirk is now used as an excuse to purge and silence many people in the USA who are opposed to the authoritarian and anti-democratic government headed by President Donald Trump. We are reaching a point where citizens of the USA must be entitled to political asylum in countries like Ireland
Kirk Assassination Puts the Left in Danger
Dan La Botz Tuesday 16 September 2025,
Source International Viewpoint
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Kirk Assassination Puts the Left in Danger – International Viewpoint
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old leader of the far-right youth organization Turning Point USA has intensified the political polarization in the United States and has led to calls by Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement to call for the elimination of the left from American political life.
Kirk was assassinated by a single rifle shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Within two days, Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old student, turned himself in to the police and was charged with the murder.
Following Kirk’s killing, President Donald Trump in a national address stated, “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.” Laura Loomer, who influences Trump, wrote, “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The Left is a national security threat.”
Kirk was a devoted follower and friend of President Donald Trump who saw his organization Turning Point USA as the youth group of the MAGA movement. In 2024, the group mobilized young people to vote for Trump, helping him to win the presidential election.
Kirk was a white Christian nationalist who routinely suggested that Black people, especially Black women, were intellectually inferior. He argued that Jews were responsible for the Great Replacement of white Americans by people of color. He said that women should reject feminism and submit to their husbands. He believed that LGBT people violated God’s Biblical law. While claiming to be an advocate of free speech, Kirk’s Turning Point USA maintained a “professor watchlist” aimed at driving progressive professors out of academia. He stated that Muslims would kill every Jew on earth. He said that Palestine did not exist and asserted that claims of starvation of children in Gaza were fake news. He dismissed climate change, falsely claiming there was no scientific consensus on its cause.
Tyler Robinson, grew up in a Christian, Republican family in Utah. He was an excellent student, like video games, and had become interested in politics, but was apparently not a member of any organization. He reportedly confessed to the murder, but if he is the murderer, we don’t know why he killed Kirk.
But we have some clues. Some unfired cartridges found near the rifle used in the shooting had been engraved: One read, “Hey fascist! Catch.” Another read, “Bella ciao,” a lyric from a song of the Italian anti-fascist resistance of World War II. So, perhaps Robinson had become an anti-fascist who wanted to kill the leading youth organizer of an American fascist movement. If so, we think he made a terrible mistake.
We socialists have always rejected individual acts of terror, such as assassinations. First, large organizations or social movements are not likely to change direction or to be stopped by the killing of one person. On the contrary, the murder of a charismatic and popular leader like Kirk could create a martyr around whom people will organize.
Second, assassination leads to repression such as we are witnessing now, as rightwing agitators, politicians, and the government take advantage of the murder to call for a purge of leftists in America.
We on the left, as well as progressives and liberals, are in danger. Even before Kirk’s killing, Trump was sending troops to American cities. Several right-wingers on social media now call for a civil war. Leaders of armed, violent groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys have called upon their members to mobilize. We will have to be vigilant and to organize to defend our organizations and our rights, while continuing to oppose Trump, the Republicans, and the far-right.
14 September 2025
USA : Purge develops :
“Employers, you have an obligation to get rid of people who are saying horrible things.” – US Attorney-General Pam Bondi
US workers fired over Charlie Kirk social media posts
United Airlines, Nasdaq, Washington Post and others dismiss employees in aftermath of conservative activist’s murder
Taylor Nicole Rogers in New York
Financial Times September 17 2025
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US workers fired over Charlie Kirk social media posts
Dozens of US workers ranging from teachers to Secret Service agents have been fired over statements about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, as conservatives call for retribution for the activist’s death.
In the aftermath of Kirk’s murder, some conservative US officials and activists encouraged people to report those who celebrated the killing on social media.
“When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” said vice-president JD Vance while hosting Kirk’s podcast on Monday. “And hell, call their employer.” United Airlines said it had “taken action on employees” who attempted to justify the killing. Nasdaq said it had “terminated, effective immediately” an employee over “commentary that condones or celebrates violence”. It was unclear whether the reports from the public factored into the firings.
Political activist Olivia Krolczyk also called for the punishment of people who appeared to be celebrating Kirk’s death. Even before Vance’s comments on Monday she posted on X that she had contacted more than 700 employers regarding their workers’ social media posts. The Carolina Panthers football team, The Washington Post, law firm Perkins Coie and American Airlines have also dismissed staff for their public comments about Kirk.
The offending posts have ranged from a United Airlines pilot calling Kirk a “fucking Nazi” to a South Carolina high school teacher writing on Facebook that “America became greater” after the assassination, and a Secret Service agent attributing the murder to “karma”.
Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was an outspoken conservative known for co-founding the rightwing youth organisation Turning Point USA. His comments about immigrants, transgender people and women drew a fierce backlash.
The 31-year-old Kirk was addressing a crowd of more than 3,000 at Utah Valley University last week when he was fatally shot in the neck. Authorities on Tuesday charged 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson with aggravated murder in connection with the killing. Companies have cracked down on employees’ political expression both in and out of the office amid the US’s deepening political divide. Some also dismissed workers for comments seen as inflammatory after Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on Israel and the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump.
The Pentagon last Thursday urged caution in posting online about Kirk’s death. Chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said on X that it was “unacceptable” for troops and other defence department personnel “to celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American” and that there would be “zero tolerance for it”. Defence secretary Pete Hegseth reposted Parnell’s statement and said that his department was “tracking all these very closely”.
On college campuses, Clemson University and Middle Tennessee State University said they had fired staff for comments made following the assassination. The non-profit Joe Burrow Foundation, which helps underprivileged children, and biomedical research centre the Broad Institute severed ties with employees as well. The media sector was rife with examples of workers being terminated over Kirk-related comments.
Among the first reported fired was MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd, who said on air that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which ultimately lead to hateful actions” after initial reports that shots had been fired at an event where Kirk was speaking. “The Right Wing media mob ginned up, went after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted to that mob,” Dowd wrote in a Substack post about the incident last week.
Karen Attiah said she was fired from her role as an opinion writer for The Washington Post last week after resharing Kirk’s statement that “Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously” after his death. “They rushed to fire me without even a conversation — claiming disparagement on race,” Attiah wrote in a Substack post announcing her firing. “This was not only a hasty over-reach, but a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigour the Post claims to uphold.”
MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler apologised for Dowd’s comments in a statement, calling them “inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable”. A Washington Post spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters.
Tomás Ó Flatharta 
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