BREAKING: Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirkβs βdigital hit listβ and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.
We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirkβs legacyβ¦
βI am on Charlie Kirkβs hit list,β Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. βHis so-called βProfessor Watchlist,β 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.β
βFor weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: βbitch,β βc*nt,β βn****r.β They threatened all manner of violence,β she continued.
βThey overwhelmed the universityβs PR lines and the presidentβs office with calls demanding that I be fired,β Patton wrote. βThe 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.β
βAnd I am not unique,β she added.
βKirkβs 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,β Patton wrote.
βSome 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!β she continued.
βThat 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 movementβs lies,β she wrote.
βAnd now, in the wake of his shooting, thereβs all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,β Patton continued. βBut the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!β
βAnd now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.β
βBut 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,β she continued. βKirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.β
βIt is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,β she concluded.
This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.
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