Posted on 09/14/2025 6:09:49 AM PDT by Libloather
American Airlines and Delta Air Lines confirmed that employees have been removed from duty after making celebratory or mocking remarks online about the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced Saturday that American Airlines pilots involved had been “immediately grounded” and urged their permanent removal.
“This behavior is disgusting and they should be fired,” Duffy wrote on X. “Any company responsible for the safety of the traveling public cannot tolerate that behavior. We heal as a country when we send the message that glorifying political violence is completely unacceptable.”
American Airlines issued a statement saying it “condemns violence of any kind” and that “hate-related or hostile behavior runs contrary to our purpose, which is to care for people on life’s journey. Any such behavior is unacceptable, and we have already initiated action to address this with our team.”
FOX Business reported that Delta also suspended multiple employees after they posted on social media about Kirk’s assassination. Delta told FOX 5 Atlanta that the conduct violated company policy and could result in termination. CEO Ed Bastian reminded staff in an internal memo that “whether we’re in uniform and on the clock, online or out in public, our colleagues, customers and communities expect us to reflect Delta’s values.”
Kirk, 31, was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.
Fox News Digital's Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
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Lol! I get your meaning but the last plane I flew on was the B-29 Superfortress “DOC” last May. (It was my sons very first flight). Honestly the odds of me getting on an airliner again are slim to none. Try to take a flight on DOC if they are ever in your area.
They should be well aware by now that free speech has consequences.
Remember the Malaysian airliner that went missing? Wasn’t the pilot some kind of homo or tranny that decided to murder everyone on the plane?
ISN’T THERE A PLANE FULL OF PASSENGERS STILL MISSING???
The lunatic co-pilot who deliberately crashed the GermanWings plane into the mountains was gay.
A lot of if’s in your ost. What is publicly? And as far as I know Allahu Akbar means “God is most great”. They can’t be proscibed words. Attending a radicalized mosque begs the question of who’s doing the definition of “radicalized”.
I’m worried if we got too far down the road of acceptable non acceptable speech when power shifts it could come back to bite us.
“There was a time not so long ago when expressing homicidal blood lust was considered the exclusive domain of psychopathic killers. Now one may peruse thousands of posts by people doing precisely this, and their posts are liked by hundreds of thousands of people in aggregate.” John Leake
They are letting you know that they are coming for you. They feel free enough to announce it on social media, even while displaying their place of employment.
Any employer that allows these horrific posts to stand without repercussions (since it reflects on employer) should be boycotted and put out of business.
Actually it has shifted. It shifted back to the center. Cancel culture was all the rage when a conservative didn’t hew to the woke agenda. Playing by the new rules is exposing the hypocrisy.
Cancel culture is now bad
Gerrymandering is now bad
Color blindness is now bad
Executive orders are now bad
Anti-war is now bad
Censoring speech is now bad
Do you see a trend?
EC
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