āThe Texas Education Agency (TEA) says it is investigating 281 educators for posting or sharing āreprehensible and inappropriate content on social media related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.ā The Texas American Federation of Teachers (TAFT) described it as an āextreme case of government officials witch-hunting those who disagreed with Kirkās politics.āā
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āAt least one local board went ahead and fired a teacher just two days after Kirk was killed. The Klein Independent School District (ISD) had received an anonymous tip regarding Schindewolf Intermediate School football coach Derek Woods for his response to a Facebook post thanking Kirk āfor all he has done.ā Woods, who doubled as a social studies teacher, responded, āI donāt get why anyone is sad...Yes he is leaving behind 2 beautiful little girls and I pray for them. but that man was a horrible f-----g human being. He was a legit racist, homophobic, a misogynist, transphobic nasty person. Plus he said out of his d--n mouth āpeople should die in order for us to protect the second amendment.āāā
And thatās just the start.
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Hate speech is entitled to First Amendment protections ā the authoritarian right of course has contempt for free speech and the First Amendment.
And speaking the truth about Kirk isnāt āhate speechā ā Kirk was in fact a reprehensible individual, a hateful racist, bigot, and misogynist, and political violence cannot be justified no matter how reprehensible an individual might be.