Prominent far-right wingnut Laura Loomer, a US senator, and a site called “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” have all drawn attention to people who have posted messages about Kirk’s Wednesday assassination.
Pro-Kirk activists are doxxing people who have posted celebratory messages of Kirk’s death on social media, and some of them are people with very few followers, and are not public figures.
The names of people on this list have been blocked out of fear of retaliation.
The Charlie’s Murderers site, whose domain was registered anonymously and which says it is not a doxxing site, claims it has “received nearly 30,000 submissions,” according to a message on the site’s front page on midday Saturday. Currently, there are a few dozen submissions published on the site. “This website will soon be converted into a searchable database of all 30,000 submissions, filterable by general location and job industry. This is a permanent and continuously-updating archive of Radical activists calling for violence.”
Most of the messages posted by people on the list did not call for violence and they do not claim to be activists. Some of those people are saying they are now receiving a barrage of harassment, and are worried about being targets of violence.
Elected MAGAts are also throwing their weight around.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn got an employee of Middle Tennessee State University “immediately fired” for writing they had “ZERO sympathy” for Kirk’s death.
Rep. Nancy Mace also encouraged the firing of a public school teacher, who was confirmed by the school district that she was no longer an employee there.
In most places, private companies can fire employees for any reason — and that includes crass social media posts, said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor of labor and employment law at the University of North Carolina. It’s a little trickier for public sector employees, but their firings are also justified if the speech is “so egregious it disrupts operations.”
In a 1987 case, the Supreme Court decided that it was constitutionally protected speech, and not grounds for firing, for a government employee to tell her co-workers she was sorry that a would-be assassin failed to kill President Reagan.
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