We’re now well over a week into this and still, more people are getting fired for saying these stupid and hateful things.
The College Fix reports:
Kansas Dept. of Ed official fired after calling Charlie Kirk’s murder ‘well deserved’A Kansas Department of Education employee was recently fired after she called conservative speaker Charlie Kirk’s assassination “well deserved.”Katie Allen, who was a KSDE research analyst, apologized for the comment after facing immense backlash, but still lost her job, The Mercury reported.A KSDE spokesperson confirmed that Allen is no longer employed by the department, but did not provide a reason for her termination.Allen was responding on Facebook to a repost by school board candidate Courtney Jane Hochman last week.The shared post, originally from People magazine, announced Kirk’s murder. It featured a quote from Kirk stating that “a cost of … some gun deaths every single year” is worth it “so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”Allen simply wrote “well deserved” in the comments. Libs of TikTok posted a photo of the comment on X before Allen deleted it.She later apologized for the comment, The Mercury reported.“Late this afternoon I was walking to my car and scrolling Facebook,” she wrote in a statement, adding “and then [in] an emotional moment I commented on a post related to a recent shooting.”“I looked back at the post when I got to my car I quickly realized I didn’t intend the meaning the two words I wrote had so I deleted my comment. Too late — it only took moments for social media users to screen grab my words and quickly spread them,” she stated.She also stated that her comment does not reflect who she is, which is why she deleted it so quickly.
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