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When a wave of Canadian figures took to social media this week to publicly celebrate the assassination of U.S. political commentator Charlie Kirk, it shouldn’t have been all that surprising that a disproportionate number of them worked in academia.
Kirk was murdered at a university while engaging in a very university-like activity: Peacefully debating students who disagreed with him. Ironically, Kirk was shot while responding to a Utah student’s assertion that claims of U.S. political violence were overblown.
Nevertheless, calls for the act to be repeated were loudest among those whose workplace was a university.
A screenshot was circulated by B.C. conservative politician Dallas Brodie that allegedly shows University of Victoria’s Melia Bose saying “GOOD RIDDANCE. The ‘woke