People who excitedly celebrate political assassinations should not be teaching children.
There is the Secret Service agent whose job it is to protect important politicians from assassination, and yet who was all in favor of political assassination of Charlie Kirk. There are military members who are supposed to carry guns in defense of Americans yet were delighted that an American was assassinated. And of course, there are God knows how many teachers across the United States who ecstatically celebrated the assassination, teachers who are responsible for educating children every day.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted Monday, “The Texas Education Agency is investigating Texas teachers whose actions called for or incite violence following the Charlie Kirk assassination. Those educators—more than 100–will ‘have their teacher certification suspended and be ineligible to teach in a Texas public school.’”
A Texas charter school teacher who spoke to PJ Media noted that, unfortunately, due to pop entertainment, kids are “already desensitized to violence and teachers spend more time with the kids than any parent does. So if your major role models encourage violence based on opinion,” and kids don’t really comprehend the ramifications of that violence, probably at least some of them will commit violence.
“If you’re told words are equivalent to violet acts, and you’re someone who gets in trouble for, [as an example], saying something a teacher deems racist, then there’s no differences between shooting someone and saying your opinions,” the teacher added.
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What we are finding out now as a nation and what Republicans have not wanted to admit for a long time is that one’s political views usually influence how one lives. I learned this in college. I went to a conservative Catholic college, but even there there were definitely crazy people. I began to realize that the monarchists acted as if their friends were their subjects, that the socialists did not have any respect for private property, and that the most anti-American history professor was as vicious in mocking his wife as he was in mocking heroes of U.S. history. Hatred bleeds from one area of one’s life to another.
Then apply that same principle to extreme leftists, people who truly believe that there’s genocide in Gaza, that Donald Trump is Hitler, that not using “preferred pronouns” is akin to genocide, and that every conservative is a fascist trying to kill democracy. That describes a huge number of teachers and school administrators in America, hence the biggest teachers’ unions’ constant activism. Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s accused killer, was from a Republican family but was radicalized in high school and college until he thought he needed to murder a man who simply debated leftists.
Tyler Robinson is a product of the American education system. Teachers told him so many times that people who rejected transgender fantasies and socialism were Nazis that he shot Kirk in the neck. Words are not violence, but words can cause violence. That is terrifyingly true of the American education system, and why we need to fire teachers who receive taxpayer-funded paychecks to teach impressionable kids while glorifying violence.
