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generalbetrayus

(1,235 posts) Thu Sep 18, 2025, 04:49 PM Sep 18

Now MAGA's Free Speech Warriors Plot to Censor Our Teachers

Source: The Daily Beast

Three words were emblazoned across the front of the pop-up tent where Charlie Kirk was sitting when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet.

“PROVE ME WRONG,” they read, in what the right-wing activist had described as an invitation to a mutual exercise of free speech as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

But Texas school officials are now proceeding as if the tent’s message was: “I’LL FIRE YOU IF I DISAGREE WITH YOU.”

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) says it is investigating 281 educators for posting or sharing “reprehensible and inappropriate content on social media related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” The Texas American Federation of Teachers (TAFT) described it as an “extreme case of government officials witch-hunting those who disagreed with Kirk’s politics.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/magas-free-speech-warriors-plot-to-silence-281-teachers/

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Now MAGA's Free Speech Warriors Plot to Censor Our Teachers (Original Post) generalbetrayus Sep 18 OP

I hated Texas when I lived there, only for one year and many years ago but doesn't seem to have changed... wcmagumba Sep 18 #1

If what the teachers posted... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 18 #2

I agree-NO one should be celebrating murder, but......I also agree this is a "snitch hunt" by riversedge Sep 18 #3

Really!!?? Multichromatic Sep 19 #4

wcmagumba

(4,747 posts)

1. I hated Texas when I lived there, only for one year and many years ago but doesn't seem to have changed...

Reply to generalbetrayus (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 04:55 PM

Sep 18

I had good progressive friends when I lived there and I am sure there are many progressives today, I'm sorry for my mini rant.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,660 posts)

2. If what the teachers posted...

Reply to generalbetrayus (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:06 PM

Sep 18

...celebrated or justified the murder, then they shouldn't be in a classroom teaching children, IMO.

No one has to like or mourn the guy, but no one should be justifying or celebrating murder, including murder based on political beliefs.

riversedge

(77,952 posts)

3. I agree-NO one should be celebrating murder, but......I also agree this is a "snitch hunt" by

Reply to SickOfTheOnePct (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:49 PM

Sep 18

Trump and his gang at the WH!! Workers, ordinary people are being investigated for saying things the WH or other people in authority did not like. This is dangerous.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/magas-free-speech-warriors-plot-to-silence-281-teachers/

...............Texas is taking the lead among officials in other states, along with numerous employers nationwide, in targeting people who expressed continued offense at some of Kirk’s other words—in particular regarding people of color as well as trans folks. People from every walk of life, from firefighters to airline crew members to a U.S. Marine to a TV news pundit to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, have been either suspended or fired.

And, in what can be called a snitch hunt, TEA is soliciting even more complaints.

“If you are made aware of additional instances of inappropriate content being shared, it should be reported to the agency through TEA’s misconduct reporting portal,” Moarth advised in his Monday statement.

A TAFT spokesman said that such matters are usually handled by the individual school districts and a statewide snitch hunt is “pretty unprecedented.” .................

Multichromatic

(23 posts)

4. Really!!??

Reply to generalbetrayus (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2025, 02:28 AM

Sep 19

So it's OK to censor liberals free speech now? Don't MAGATS know that the government will come for them next?

Gotta uphold that 2nd amendment... but it's ok to get rid of the 1st amendment. What two-faced hypocrites Republicans are!

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