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GWU administrator says Charlie Kirk assassination ‘fair’ because he supported 2A

September 13, 2025 | | Print Article

The difference between right-wing extremism and left-wing extremism is that the former is fringe, while the latter is plainly mainstream.

This was made perfectly clear this week after numerous teachers and school officials across the country gleefully celebrated the assassination and murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Teachers and school officials like George Washington University assistant campus director Anthony Pohorilak, who penned a Facebook post saying Kirk’s murder was “fair” because he’d firmly supported the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“If nothing else, it is fair, in a nation where children get massacred by gun violence on the regular, the people who advocate for continued gun ownership at the expense of those children are not immune from the consequences of their advocacy,” Pohorilak wrote.

“No thoughts no prayers,” he disparagingly added.

Pohorilak’s online presence strongly suggests he’s a leftist.

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“The George Washington University website lists Pohorilak, who uses the pronouns ‘He/Him’ in his bio, as working for the Campus Living & Residential Education department,” according to Fox News.

In a statement to the network, a George Washington University spokesperson said that the school for its part condemns all violence.

“The George Washington University unequivocally condemns all forms of violence,” the spokesperson said.

“As a university with one of the most politically engaged campus communities in the country, we believe everyone is entitled to their beliefs, and no one should ever be subject to violence for expressing their views. This individual employee is not authorized to speak on behalf of GW, and his opinions do not reflect those of the university,” they continued.

While mean-spirited and ignorant, Pohorilak’s post was one of the less offensive ones.

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“[T]eachers in California, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas” have also been fired, according to Education Week — and many for posting far more offensive things.

Case in point:

Thankfully, the right is fighting back — hard.

In a letter submitted late this week to school districts across the state, Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas vowed to investigate any teacher who posts “despicable comments” about Kirk’s assassination and murder.

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He also warned that teachers’ First Amendment rights “do not extend without limit into their professional duties.”

“An educator’s personal views that are made public may undermine the trust of the students and families that they serve,” he wrote. “Florida law allows the Commissioner to find probable cause to discipline an educator who, ‘upon investigation, has been found guilty of personal conduct that seriously reduces that person’s effectiveness as an employee of the district school board.’”

He was right about the First Amendment not protecting teachers’ BS.

“While the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1968 decision Pickering v. Board of Education ruled that teachers and other public school employees retain their First Amendment rights to comment or reflect on issues of public concern or debate, they can be censured for speech that is so inflammatory it interferes with their effectiveness as public workers,” Education Week notes.

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Over in Oklahoma, meanwhile, state Superintendent Ryan Walters — a die-hard Christian like Kirk had been — has urged Oklahomans to report local teachers’ despicable posts about Kirk to the state’s Awareity Reporting System, which is used to report professional misconduct.

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