National Review senior writer Noah Rothman is cautioning conservatives against crossing a “fine line” by cheering on the punishment of those who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
During a Monday morning segment on Fox News, anchor Bill Hemmer observed that “There are some major corporations shutting down negative public comments on Charlie Kirk, and taking disciplinary action against employees who post them.”
“Not small companies either. On screen, here we go: Microsoft, Delta Airlines, Office Depot, NASDAQ, Carolina Panthers, MSNBC. Noah, to you, this was not wasting time,” added Hemmer.
“Not wasting time at all. Some of this is unobjectionable — essentially, political hygiene, unless you think that morals clauses and contracts, for example, are somehow ignoble, there’s nothing untoward about a company that doesn’t want an employee engaging in behaviors that reflect poorly on it,” began Rothman. “So I’m of two minds on this. Certainly, there should not be any federal officer, state or local, anybody who takes an oath to the Constitution encouraging this sort of thing. The impropriety there should be obvious. However, and while I do think it’s necessary to impose this sort of circumspection on people who indulge in their worst instincts on the internet, we should be careful about rationalizing behaviors that we wouldn’t want to see in our opponents.”
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A number of people in the media, academia, and corporate world have faced rebukes and more over their sometimes gleeful reactions to Kirk’s murder.
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