South Carolina Lawyer Says He’s Been Flooded With Calls From Unhinged Liberals Fired Over Vile Posts Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
A South Carolina lawyer says his office has been “flooded” with calls from deranged leftists begging for legal help after they were fired for cheering the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Shaun Kent of Kent Law Firm LLC in Manning revealed that at least six different individuals, teachers, government staffers, and other so-called “professionals,” have reached out to him claiming they were suspended or terminated after making disgusting social media posts celebrating Kirk’s death.
Kent made it clear he has little sympathy for their plight.
South Carolina, as Kent reminded them, is a right-to-work state. That means employers can fire employees at will—especially if they are caught cheering a political assassination online.
Kent recalled the old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me,” lamenting that America has apparently forgotten the principle.
According to Kent, many of the terminated employees falsely believe they can sue under the First Amendment. He corrected them with blunt truth.
Shaun Kent:
The amount of calls that we have received—well, I think it’s not that many, but it’s about six now—were from individuals specifically saying, “I want to make sure I get this right: I have been terminated. I have been put on suspension by my job for things that I have said on my private social media account.”
First of all, I want you to think about those things: private and social media. They do not go hand in hand together. A lot of the comments we’re getting are specifically about the unfortunate death of Charlie Kirk.
Why do I say “unfortunate”? Because I don’t care who you are as a human being, you should not root for another human being’s life to be taken—whether you agree with their political views or not.
I’m old enough to remember the phrase: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” I think we have forgotten that as a society. If we get to the point where somebody says something, and we think they deserve to die, there’s a problem.
There’s a part of me that actually believes that Mr. Kirk—whether I agree or disagree with his views—deserves respect for being willing to engage in logical debate.
And by the way, that is what we do as attorneys. If we have different views with our opposing sides, it’s basically an intellectual debate. You should not lose your life for engaging in intellectual debate with anybody.
There’s also a part of me that believes that I don’t know if he actually believed half of the stuff he was saying—because some of it was just rage-baiting to get encouragement. By that same definition, are we going to start saying we have a problem with Leonardo DiCaprio for playing a racist in a movie, even though he was just acting?