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Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

n.prArizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anywayMath teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.

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With there is no place on this planet where you can go that the conservatives won't come and try and ruin your f****** life. All they do is sit around and look for people who they can destroy disparage and ruin This is because conservatives are fundamentally unhappy losers

"“Keep blocking us, we’re coming for you. Literally driving to Tucson as we speak. You f-cking wait,” someone messaged the district on Facebook." 🫢 Facebook and TPUSA are dangerous.

Even if it were mocking Kirk, the superintendent should just say, "shut the fuck up" and be done with it. None of these psychos ever cared this much about conservatives doing the same thing to victims of dozens of other shootings.

I get that making it about CK is ridiculous, and I'm mad they never got so upset about school children. But also...those t-shirts are absolutely in poor taste for teachers to wear at a school function. Way too open to interpretation

Teachers are the ones on the front lines taking bullets for their students. you think it’s in poor taste, well too bad. The world needs to be reminded the reality they face every day when simply going to their low paying jobs.

Further traumatizing your students with a bloody t-shirt to make a political statement is not OK. If there were no kids around...easier to give a pass. But if students were present I would be angry as a mom. That's a hard no.

MAGA has to make everything about themselves and has to be the victim. Always. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that the shirts had nothing to do with them they double down and claim to be victimized a second time. Grow up. Put on ur big boy pants

"Still, Carruth issued an apology and said the shirts won’t be worn again." WTF? Apologized for total idiots being offended by something imaginary? "I'm sorry something you made from whole cloth offended you."

"These shirts were part of a math-themed Halloween costume meant to represent solving tough math problems" "Still, Carruth issued an apology and said the shirts won’t be worn again." Kirk supporters: “Your teachers need to be school shooting victims" bsky.app/profile/npr....

Of course TPUSA, like all MAGA outlets, lies. Bearing false witness by spreading conspiracy theories, disinformation and outright lies meant to defame, demean and dehumanize anyone not white, straight, "Christian" and conservative is the lone MAGA political strategy.

Wow, we really are racing toward dictatorship. They always go for the intellectuals first. The Fascists did it. The Communists did it. Every manner of authoritarian attacks intellectuals. Hitler did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it. Pol Pot did it…..over and over again attacking and murdering them

When dem politicians worry about how the GOP will react to their actions, this must be shoved in their faces. It doesn’t matter what they do, the outrage engine must be fed by the GOP. So they should do what is right and tell the GOP to piss off.

It's been a hot minute since I've seen a story like this where literally every last single person involved is brain dead. -Teachers wearing costumes **in a school** that make it look like they got shot. Tasteless and tone deaf. If I were a parent, I'd be laser focused on THIS. Instead we have...

-The Right crowing about the Left pushing political violence as they **openly send death threats to teachers** AND **suggest a school shooting happen to them**. Tell me you're ok with school shootings without telling me you're ok with them. And then...

-Rep. Keshel with the calls to fire them. She's right, by the way. At least up until she invokes Charlie Kirk's ghost. The costumes are inappropriate and tasteless on every level. Invoking Kirk's ghost was unnecessary and made you wrong, as he was never involved to begin with. Morons. All of them.

People see what they want to see. It didn't occur to me that it was a reference to Charlie's neck piercing, but only because it wasn't. The "fuck your feelings" people sure seem caught up in theirs. Additionally, the convicted felon Donald Trump is a pedophile.

I agree. I'm also a retired teacher and I think it's beyond inappropriate. It's not funny. And even if it's not about CK's murder, the blood and gore and joke about killing are not appropriate costumes for school teachers AT SCHOOL. Tone deaf.

This is insane, targeting teachers in general, as someone who prepares teachers, genuinely they’re not the problem. Earning low salaries, but they care about young people’s futures. They deserve better. 90% of Americans didn’t know of Kirk before his death, some just want violence. Go touch grass!

"The shirts, Carruth explained, were a joke about solving math problems — worn to school both this year and for Halloween in 2024." Some people need to set down their CK colored glasses--not everything is about him

Turning Point thinks everything is about THEM! The costumes were worn the prior year also. No one should be assassinated ever! But, criticizing people because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation is not right either. Learn to accept everyone. If you don't like them, walk away!

Irony - Kirk once stated on his podcast "when you allow gun ownership, you're going to have gun deaths" and that "liberty comes at a price". He compared this to the risk of car fatalities, arguing that the positive aspects of gun ownership still outweigh the negatives. Oh well.

These are the same costumes that the same people wore last year. All before Charlie was a focus. All this is just a reaction that is lacking insight.

Sue the fuck out of Andrew Kolvet, Turning Point USA spokesman. Sue the fuck out of Turning Point USA. Sue the fuck out of anyone who posted death threats to these teachers. Make these destructive people pay for their idiocy.

“Anything less sends a dangerous message that hate has a home in our classrooms.” said by someone who I guarantee has supported destroying the lives and livelihoods of LGBTQ teachers who did things like "mention their spouse" or "talk about it in any way at all to anyone"

Being sold on Amazon isn't really a strong point in favor of anything though, is it. Teachers with blood on their clothes is just too closely linked to the death of children in classrooms for me to see any humour in it, white, black or whatever color it might be called.

Math teachers: "Let's do a vaguely horror-themed group costume about the difficulty of solving some math problems. That's Halloweeny." Right-Wingers: "This has to be specifically about the one murder of our very specific hater-mongering dickwaffle that died this year! Everything's always about US!"

Soooo...question for any defamation attorneys, the teachers would have a pretty solid case, right? Like I know proving defamation in the US is hard, but they aren't public figures, can show that the claim is false, and can absolutely prove harm done, yeah?