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In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s horrific assassination during an event in Utah last week, many of those charged with educating the next generation are showing their depravity. And even sharing it with the children they teach.
On September 10, just after the horrific news of Charlie’s assassination broke, Oskaloosa, Iowa high school art teacher Matt Kargol posted to social media declaring, “1 Nazi down.”
Samantha Marengo, who teaches young children at King Elementary School in Framingham, Massachusetts, shared a video of herself in front of a telecast reporting on Kirk’s death while singing “God Bless America.”
At Mariposa County High School in California, a math teacher identified by parents as “Mr. Elm” allegedly told students that he was glad that Charlie Kirk was killed and mockingly told “MAGA kids to go home and cry.”
Jonathan Washington, an elementary school educator from Pasadena, TX, posted to X, “I am not mourning his death, I am actually planning a soirée,” adding, “Charlie Kirk is dead and I just saved 100 dollars by switching to GEICO.”
Barrington, Rhode Island teacher Benjamin Fillo posted a video calling Kirk a “piece of garbage,” and stating “this is what happens,” implying that Charlie deserved to be assassinated, before ending the video by flippantly declaring, “Bye Charlie!”
Kristen Eve, who is employed by the federal government to teach at the Department of Defense Education Activity at Fort Bragg, NC, labeled Kirk: “a garbage human” in a Facebook post and asserted “I won’t mourn him for one second.” She further warned, “We are at a point where things are going to have to get ugly, get messy, maybe even get violent, to change this dumpster fire of a country,” adding,” “f—k the high road,” and “f—k that guy,” referring to the Kirk.
Amanda Dodson, who teaches for the school district of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, shared on Facebook that “Charlie Kirk was a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece who made millions of dollars inciting hatred in this country.”
“Whether it was his genocide denial, his transphobic tirades, his pushing for mass deportations, or his normalizing Trumpism for years, the man stood for nothing but hate,” the teacher added. “I extend absolutely no empathy for people like that.”
While some of these educators have been put on leave pending investigations, the ironclad grip of the teachers’ unions means that firing a public school teacher is incredibly difficult, even when they demonstrate depraved indifference toward human life and a total lack of moral character.
College professors and administrators were no less muted in their celebration of Kirk’s death.
Marilee Kinsella, a program assistant for the Philosophy Department at Gonzaga University, shared on Facebook, “I’m Glad [Charlie Kirk] is dead because he was a horrible excuse for a human being. In fact, I’m going to have a cocktail and get high in his memory.”
UT-Knoxville anthropology professor Tamar Shirininan posted about Kirk that “The world is better off without him in it. Even those who are claiming to be sad for his wife and kids…like, his kids are better off living in a world without a disgusting psychopath like him and his wife, well, she’s a sick fuck for marrying him so I don’t care about her feelings.”
Anna Kenney, an associate professor in—horrifyingly—the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University Medical School, posted “Good riddance” in celebration of Kirk’s murder and added “he seems like a disgusting individual.”
UCLA’s Director of Race and Equity Jay Perk not only celebrated Kirk’s murder—he attempted to justify that celebration with lies. “It is OKAY to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your people’s death dies—even if they are murdered” he wrote on Bluesky. “Why shouldn’t he be dead?” he asked rhetorically.
Middle Tennessee State University Assistant Dean of Students Laura Sosh-Lightsy made light of Charlie’s death and argued that he deserved to be shot, posting “Looks like ‘ol Charlie spoke his fate into existence. Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.” In a rare display of sanity in academia, the dean has now been fired.
And at Fresno State, a video shows biology professor Shannon Sheath apparently commenting on Kirk’s shooting to her class, stating “I hope every one of his family dies. And their children, and their grandchildren, and their grandchildren, and their grandchildren, to eternity.”
The irony of these horrific comments is that each and every one of these depraved individuals is proving Charlie Kirk right in his warnings about the radical leftist indoctrination that has invaded our nation’s K-12 schools and universities.
“Young people in college – many living away from their parents for the first time in their lives – are particularly vulnerable to the leftist propaganda campaign designed to turn them away from supporting President Trump and turning them away from believing in American exceptionalism,” Kirk has said.
Kirk also offered insight into the true nature of the Left—an understanding that has been proven over and over by the reaction of radical activists to his death: “The truth is that while those on the left – particularly the far left – claim to be tolerant and welcoming of diversity, in reality many are quite intolerant of anyone not embracing their radical views.”
Kirk was right to target radical educators for the outsize role they have played in indoctrinating our nation’s youth with destructive and unpatriotic leftist ideology. His wisdom will echo on through the ensuing years. And America is finally waking up to the dire situation we find ourselves in.
