US EditionA Path Forward: Death of Charlie Kirk Reveals Challenging Road Ahead
The John Brown Gun Club posted posters glorifying Charlie Kirk's death, sparking fear among Georgetown students amid rising political violence concerns nationwide.
- On September 10, Charlie Kirk, right-wing activist and father of two, was killed during a debate at Utah Valley University and Tyler Robinson was arrested in connection.
- This week, blood-red posters appeared across Georgetown University, hung by the John Brown Gun Club, a 'far-left' group whose flyers compared Charlie Kirk to Hitler and Mussolini.
- The group has a history of joining protests armed with guns, and some suspected members were arrested in July after launching fireworks and firing bullets at a Texas immigration centre.
- The university said flyers were removed and it is investigating while Jordan van Slingerland, student, said `My first emotion was fear`; the White House called the act despicable and Education Secretary Linda McMahon described the posters as appalling.
- Pinker framed the reaction as mob logic and common knowledge, arguing in The New York Times Sunday that outrage spreads through shared social signals and merged grievances.
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NY Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones calls public mourning for Charlie Kirk 'unsettling'
New York Times correspondent and 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones called efforts by public figures to mourn and venerate Charlie Kirk after his assassination "unsettling" in an essay Sunday.After Kirk was assassinated during a Turning Point USA event on a Utah campus earlier this month, Hannah-Jones accused some Democrats and political centrists of "lining up" to honor someone with "extremist" views. "[I]n the wake of Kirk’s death, indivi…
Sam Ponder Receives 'Vicious' Social Media Backlash After Paying Tribute to Charlie Kirk
Former ESPN host Sam Ponder opened up on the "vicious" messages she received on social media after she mourned the loss of Charlie Kirk following his assassination.Ponder appeared on Fox News Channel’s "Saturday in America" and recalled to Kayleigh McEnany that she reshared a video of Kirk and his family on social media and thought nothing of it."The strange thing is I didn’t really say much. I reposted a video of his family just because I thoug…
A Path Forward: Death of Charlie Kirk reveals challenging road ahead
The assassination of conservative political activist and social media personality Charlie Kirk has me thinking a lot about circles. Here is my view: Americans inhabit three concentric circles. (Geometrically speaking, concentric circles are a pattern of two or more circles that share the same center point but have different radii, creating a nested appearance.) The inner circle is the largest, by far, representing nearly 70% of us. That notion w…
'Perfect outrage incident': Psychologist dissects MAGA's new 'social media shaming mobs'
In an article for the New York Times published Sunday, Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, argued that modern political outrage operates according to what he calls mob logic, a form of communal outrage grounded in shared expectations and social coordination.Pinker began by describing how the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk elicited an intense wave of symbolic reactions: Kirk was sanctified as a marty…
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Felix VictorinoAt the University of Virginia Tech , an old opponent of Donald Trump turned into his faithful follower, took Wednesday the stage where Charlie Kirk should have been if he had not been killed last day 10. She was the presenter Megyn Kelly , a 54-year-old blonde with an angled face, who for a long time was a reporter and star face of Fox News. She became famous when Trump attacked her in a 2015 presidential debate, insinuating that she should have…
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