It’s amazing how many people have stupidly put themselves out there saying these outrageous things and not realizing there would be consequences.
The College Fix reports:
Cancel culture comes back to bite the Left amid posts wishing Trump was assassinatedIn a perfect world, people like this teacher in the Oklahoma-based Ardmore City Schools district would have the self-control not to post stupid stuff on social media after a U.S. presidential candidate is almost assassinated.The high school music teacher responded to a Facebook user’s post saying they were going to donate $500 to would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks for “tryin’ to save us,” according to a screenshot obtained by Libs of TikTok.“Same!” wrote the teacher. “Wish they had a better scope” — followed by an “oh well” emoji.Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters subsequently posted on X that the teacher’s comments were “unacceptable” and added: “We will not allow teachers to cheer on violence” against President Trump.Later the same day Walters posted “I have investigated it enough. I will be taking [the teacher’s] teaching certificate. She will no longer be teaching in Oklahoma.”As of Friday, the Ardmore school district website had a pop-window notice of a district news release which stated officials had started a “thorough and swift” investigation, and that the district “strongly condemns acts of physical violence and any words that seek to encourage it.”According to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, the Ardmore staff “Master Contract” states the “Superintendent and the School Principals will annually remind staff members and orient new staff members concerning the importance of maintaining proper decorum in the on-line, digital world as well as in person.”Libs of TikTok and other accounts have chronicled the hideous remarks of many others regarding the attempted Trump assassination, including those of other educators. Some, like a fire chief from a town not far from where the shooting occurred, not only apologized profusely but backed it up by resigning.Again, in a perfect world, people would “pause before [they] post,” as a recent Education Week article put it. (It also noted the travails of two other teachers in addition to the Ardmore case … not to mention that of Superintendent Walters himself who had tweeted “The left, the liberal media, and the radical extremists of Joe Biden’s party tried to assassinate @realDonaldTrump.” Ed Week only attempted to contact Walters for comment, not the teachers.)
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