Colleges Condemn Students Mocking Kirk Assassination Anniversary

The University of Tennessee condemned the flyers found on its campus, Legal Insurrection reported, and the Washington Times reported that several major universities issued their own pushback against the look-alike contests.

USA Today drew heavy criticism from the right for a piece framing Gen Z's "odd" posts about Kirk as humor used to cope with a harsh reality and to distance themselves from it. Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review all attacked the framing — The Gateway Pundit accused the paper of "bending over backwards" to excuse leftists mocking the assassination, and BizPac Review summarized the argument as claiming the mockery is "actually a 'good' thing for GenZ."

The man who debated Kirk immediately before he was killed told KXAN Austin he has endured a "year of harassment," saying: "It happens daily."

Mother Jones, which visited the site of the killing on the anniversary, described conspiracists and Kirk's supporters colliding there.

The Other Side of the Backlash

The BBC reported on people who lost their jobs after posting about Kirk in the weeks after the assassination. Some have won big settlements from their employers, the BBC found, while others had to start over from scratch — and some said they have no regrets about what they posted.