Charlie Kirk wouldn’t have needed these making gentle of his demise punished, in line with a NCS commentator.
S.E. Cupp took difficulty on Tuesday with high-profile members of the Trump administration, like JD Vance, pushing for such folks to be fired.
On NCS News Central, anchor Kate Bolduan requested Cupp about Vance’s name to motion on Kirk’s outdated podcast.
“When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” Vance instructed. “And hell, call their employer. We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.”
Right-wing commentators have loved seeing employers fireplace employees for mocking the demise of Charlie Kirk. / Jim Urquhart / REUTERS
Cupp rejected that plan of action.
“It’s illiberal and it’s the opposite of what Charlie Kirk would have wanted,” stated Cupp, a conservative. “Charlie Kirk was a debater. I didn’t like what he said, and I was offended by what he said. That’s alright, you know? It’s not illegal, it’s not a crime to offend someone. And yeah, I think this is the opposite of what we need.
“When we meet speech we don’t like, we meet it with more free speech. We have to debate our ideas. We have to be able to talk about the things that we disagree with. We have to do that civilly,” Cupp continued.
“But we can’t punish people for disagreeing with us. We can’t punish people for being jerks and celebrating the death of someone. That’s not illegal and that shouldn’t be who we are.”
Kirk himself asserted final 12 months that hate speech “does not exist legally” within the U.S.
“Hate speech does not exist legally in America,” he wrote on X final May. “There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi, amid pushback from the proper, on Tuesday reaffirmed her dedication to prosecute “hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence.”
Meanwhile, a number of situations of employers firing employees over their feedback about Kirk have thrilled MAGA influencers.
One notable example was MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd, who stated simply after the capturing that Kirk’s “awful words” prompted “awful actions to take place.”