American airlines, schools, universities, healthcare institutions, and corporations have been enacting a countrywide crackdown on those voicing relief over the recent assassination of a radical conservative ally of the US president and the Israeli regime.

Reporting on Sunday, various American media outlets showed how more than 50 to 70 people had faced “firings, suspensions, and disciplinary actions” over their remarks posted online, even without their consent, about Charlie Kirk’s death.

The onslaught that has been described by observers as a new front of “cancel culture” marks one of the most extensive waves of professional reprisals in recent US political and cultural history.

It has been enjoying support from coordinated doxxing campaigns, namely, the public revelation of someone’s private or identifying information online, by Libs of TikTok. The social media account, originally on Twitter, now X, reposts and shares videos and content from TikTok, usually focusing on creators with progressive or left-leaning views.

‘May he rot in hell’

In education, examples of the reprisal span from faculty at East Tennessee State University, one writing “You reap what you sow” and another calling Kirk’s death “a victory,” both placed on leave, to a Newport News school employee, who posted, “I hope he suffered through all of it,” and was later fired.

Teachers in Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas lost jobs for remarks ranging from “1 Nazi down” to “may he rot in hell for all that racist evil rhetoric he spewed out.”

In Oregon, science teacher and city councilor Matt Theobald resigned after posting that Kirk’s death “brightened up my day.” Florida’s Education Commissioner has even issued a statewide monitoring directive after multiple staff posts.

Corporate discipline has been equally swift. Delta Air Lines suspended at least five employees, including a pilot who mocked Kirk’s gun rights stance, with CEO Ed Bastian signaling likely terminations. Office Depot fired an employee in Michigan who refused to print vigil flyers, calling them “propaganda.” Nasdaq dismissed two staffers, including a senior communications VP, for posts saying Kirk “reaped what he sowed.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has, meanwhile, called for the firing of American Airlines pilots accused of celebrating Kirk’s death, leading to the grounding of several pilots.

A Cincinnati barbecue co-owner, who wrote “good riddance” online, was also ousted and lost a stadium contract.

Conservative Senator Lindsey Graham has, however, defended the deluge of “disciplinary measures,” saying, “Free speech doesn’t prevent you from being fired if you’re stupid and have poor judgment.”

The University of Miami Health System, which has fired an employee as part of the push, has denounced what it has called “unacceptable public commentary,” while Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has dismissed a staffer for “inappropriate comments.”

Pundits have called such remarks and measures “mockery” of what the United States has historically claimed to be priding itself on.

Kirk had left an unmistakable mark among the US’s far-right and controversial personalities throughout Trump’s entry and stay in the country’s politics.

Throughout his decades-long “political activism,” he would unashamedly and tirelessly spearhead Trump’s far-right views across American campuses.

Among other things, he had denied the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on the Gaza Strip by alleging that the regime was not starving Palestinians as part of the genocide, rather attributing the dire humanitarian situation in the coastal sliver to “mismanagement.”

Kirk was shot and killed with a bullet to the neck during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

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