Iteach public high school English in a liberal state. And like most Americans — liberal or conservative — I believe what my liberal friends and my extended conservative Irish Catholic family believe: Charlie Kirk did not deserve to die. None of us — on the right or the left — believe words warrant death.

Yet a world-famous podcaster recently repeated a dangerous lie: that “so many” on the left are celebrating Kirk’s assassination. This defies common sense, and it defies my lived experience. My liberal neighbors are not cheering death. My colleagues mourn when a child loses his father. Church communities pray for peace, not more bloodshed.

We cannot allow politicians and commentators to weaponize tragedy to inflame division. I call myself a “bleeding-heart liberal” for a reason: we want f

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