Opened substack this afternoon to this being the top post:
I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list.
His so-called “Professor Watchlist,” run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.
For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: “bitch,” “c*nt,” “n****r.” They threatened all manner of violence.
They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired. The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.
And I am not unique.
Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse.
Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!
That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies.
And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater. But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!
And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.
But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups. Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.
It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant.
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BIG PROPS to the BP team hopping on a livestream to ad-lib discuss what's going on. Love when you guys do this.
ONLY SUGGESTION is to get more Moderators in your live chat. A lot of just plain Bot takes and people threatening to kill krystal for 0 reason. PLZ get more mods to remove hate from the BP family
It’s disappointing that with everything going on, the entire episode was only about CK. His murder was a vile and visceral thing that shouldn’t have happened, but the fawning over a man who spent his life belittling minorities of all stripes, defending slavery, saying that a ten year old rape victim has no right to an abortion, and encouraging the rise of fascism in this country ain’t it. I feel for his kids, and for those who will be unjustly targeted by those looking for retribution. Having said that, there is still an entire world of news unfolding. There are kids being shot in schools. There are world leaders committing unspeakable atrocities without retribution. There are families starving and suffering. There are victims of abuse trying desperately to find justice and closure. If CK wasn’t as known as he was, this would have been a two minute story, and we would have moved on. He was no hero. He was just another person who fell victim to the ongoing scourge of gun ...
