Posted on 09/09/2026 2:40:28 PM PDT by thegagline
A University of California, Irvine lecturer appeared to endorse violence against conservative activist Nick Shirley ahead of his scheduled appearance Wednesday before the Harvard Republicans.
The remarks are drawing attention to campus political rhetoric surrounding Shirley, whose investigations and viral videos have made him a prominent conservative voice online.
"In the comments of the Harvard Republican Club’s recent Instagram post announcing Nick Shirley’s visit to campus, UC Irvine and Chapman lecturer Matthew Goldman appears to endorse a potential act of violence against Shirley, just before the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination," *** In screenshots shared by Yard Report, Goldman appeared to comment on the Harvard Republican Club’s Instagram post about the Wednesday event scheduled for 6 p.m., writing, "Someone can do the funniest thing just before the Kirkiversary."
Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated Sept. 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University during his American Comeback Tour. Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of his death.
Another comment appearing to have been posted by Goldman on the Harvard Republican Club's Instagram post read, "Lmao abolish ICE. only good ICE agent is a dead one." *** Another Instagram post appearing to be from Goldman's account which was screenshotted and shared by Yard Report was a Dec. 9, 2024, post of a photo of the character Luigi from Mario Brothers pointing a gun at Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO allegedly assassinated by Luigi Mangione in New York City on Dec. 4, 2024.***
Goldman’s post read, "Let’s not pretend as if America isn’t the greatest country on earth."
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ALL HE HAS DONE IS EXPOSE $MILLIONS IN FRAUD!
Democrats hate when you expose their fraud
“Appears”?! Is that like “alleged”?
He’s a sick wacko so yes, a liberal but over the edge even
They’re against the death penalty for convicted murderers, but all for the execution of people for the crimes of thinking, speaking, and voting differently than them.
He’s a fag, Jim.
Fox looks really worried about slander accusations and legal problems.
But the Dems and Socialists say “ICE murders people” meaning man with extra magazines and a firearm confronted agents and got killed and that lesbian woman running her vehicle into where the agent was telling her to halt got shot through the windshield.
NOT a large scale automatic weapons spraying against the peaceful leftist in the streets. But they make it sound like that to slack jawed morons.
Shut up! he explained.
He and U. of San Diego associate professor Butch Ware are inciting violence.
His backside is likely enmeshed into that sofa.
Reason number one million and one why universities need to be shut down and rebuilt from the ground up. There is no “reforming” them. They are thoroughly rotten.
He is too opinion based, not fact based. Felt he was extremely closed minded. The only reason I can see people scoring him high is you absolutely do not need to work to get an A in this class. Which seems in line with his opinions - no need to work hard, just wait and get stuff handed to you.
He was born ugly but that doesn’t mean he had to use his free will to do evil as he is doing.
Same Shri Thanedar, Ali Velshi of CNN, Ro Khanna Rep. Al Green or Maxine Waters.
I hereby completely endorse the use of violence against Goldman.
L
It’s awful that Universities have become havens for these scumbags and reprobates
Thank you for posting this.
He should be fired ASAP. Incitement to violence is not protected speech.
My brother used to work at USC, full of Jew haters, so they moved to Irvine, he works at UCI, but from what Ive seen UCI is no better than USC same kind of crap
It's Gresham's law, but for institutions. Just as "bad money drives out good," bad people drive out good too.
I don't think universities are long for this world, at least in their present form.
Come on people. The key word is ‘appears’. Like the lawyers out there he’s no dummy. Let Trump be the one to push buttons.
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