This is sort of the same thing.
Posted on 09/15/2025 5:18:26 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Conservatives have pushed for people who made social media posts celebrating the killing of Republican activist Charlie Kirk to be fired from their jobs, sparking debate about whether they are now embracing the "cancel culture" they once rebuked.
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Conservatives have urged that businesses fire individuals who made celebratory posts over his death, fueling questions about free speech and cancel culture…Steve Bannon wrote in a statement to Newsweek, "Fire Them All, and Fire Them Now." Matt Wallace, an influencer with more than 2 million followers on X, wrote on the social media platform last week that his team has gotten dozens of people fired over their reactions.
A website called the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation asks people to submit names of people who have celebrated the shooting. The group wrote to X that it has nearly 50,000 identities ..
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Journalist Don Lemon accused the right of "hypocrisy" during a recent episode of The Don Lemon Show.
"…The hypocrisy on the right about free speech, it's off the charts. Think about it—if you actually believe in what Charlie Kirk said he believed in—didn't quite practice all the time—is free speech, then why are you out to cancel people who are using their First Amendment right to free speech to tell you how they feel about Charlie Kirk by using his own words?"
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Republicans, however, have pushed back …"It's not 'cancel culture' for someone to lose his job for celebrating a political assassination…" wrote Representative Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, to X.
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David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, told Newsweek that the First Amendment applies only to the government, so companies likely have the legal ability to make these personnel decisions as they please.
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I get virtue-signaling. But this is beyond stupid.
Why don’t people make up fake account with nicknames?
It’s not the same but I don’t care. Make them all unemployable.
Then they wouldn’t get attention and kudos from their fellow ghouls.
Cancel Culture Club is a far-left, commie and muzzie pig jircle cerk. Conservative Americans don’t play that nonsense. We’re not that experienced with cans of spray paint and Crayolas.
This isn’t cancel culture. This is Consequence Culture.
From the mice and RATS down at Newsqueak.
I guess I missed it, but I haven’t seen many Conservatives calling for people to be fired, unless it was cases where school teachers were involved.
But if people are going to mouth off like this publicaly, on line especially, it’s bound to come to the attention of many of their employers with predictable results.
Yes. We are. Payback is a bitch. They made the mistake of killing the nice guy. They didn’t realize that the rest of us are not nice.
That’s correct.
Accountability culture, not cancel culture
Cancel means dead. That’s a lefty agenda (see Charlie Kirk)
But we will definitely use their own rules against them at every opportunity and we’re just getting started 😉
Suck on it hard, commies! You started this party so....
Revenge is best served cold-blooded. For those on the right who have been bullied, it is payback.
We only want to cancel people that think it is OK to kill us.
Hopefully that won’t offend them.
Lol.
“Conservatives have pushed for people who made social media posts celebrating the killing of Republican activist Charlie Kirk to be fired from their jobs”
Yes, as they are saying, Bannon said fire them all.
Did they get fired because Bannon said Themis? There’s no debate going on between conservatives and anyone’s or among conservatives
This is not the same as someone getting cancelled by their friends or extended family over Trump or anti vax
This is people saying, on social media, that they agree with the philosophy of a leftist assassin. Corporations have to fire these people or they are liable for any damages that could be derived from that thinking or their incitement
Out
The right to free speech does not include inciting violence. Hours and days after a political assassination while the feds are perusing social media, a doctor has to be shown the door and fired for talking about being happy Charlie Kirk is dead
No amount of people ageeeing or disagreeing with him at that hospital will make a difference
And Steve Bannon has nothing at all to do with it
If Newsweek is of the opinion that people are debating this they’re wrong. If not for the preposterousness of it, then for the fact that he hasn’t even been buried yet
They can watch Greg Gutfeld’s response to the liberal stand in today’s on the five 15 sept
What has actually happened is that the persistent - obnoxious - liberal calls for A DIALOGUE (tm) have been shattered by a guy who did that and only ever did that bleeding out onstage in front of his wife and kids for doing it and while he was doing it. That option is now closed.
Cancel culture was over dumb shit like “all lives matter” and “men can’t have babies”.
These people are unstable, hostile, and a threat to a safe workplace. If the companies keep them, then the boycotts begin.
We’re no longer laying down for psychopaths.
This is sort of the same thing.
I’m all for the left being cancelled- not because I’m in favor of cancel culture but because I’m in favor of giving them a taste of their own medicine....
* the left tried to cancel us because we voted for President Trump...
* the left tried to cancel us because we support President Trump.....
* the left tried to cancel anyone who worked for or worked with President Trump...
* the left tried to cancel anyone of us who don’t believe men should be playing in womens sports....
* the left tried to cancel anyone of us who dare claimed “all Lives Matter”...
* the left tried to cancel anyone of us who wanted to make our own medical decisions and not take the covid vax (you know- that whole my body, my choice thingy)
The left gave us cancel culture- let them now reap the “rewards” of it...
Newsweak is Silly Left Outlet
Guess little Andrew doesn’t understand. Cancel culture is trying to shut someone up or take away their livelihood because you disagree with their political speech. What is happening now is trying to bring accountability to scum who glorify assassination of someone with whom they disliked and disagreed politically. Huge difference. It also shows a complete lack of any kind of humanity on the part of the Leftist scum. But of course, little Andrew and the Left always try to equate what they do with what we do.
We are promoting the cancellation of people who promote murderous violence. They promote the cancellation of people they simply don’t agree with. Big Difference.
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