A wave of firings broke across South Carolina and the nation in recent days as scores of everyday Americans lost their jobs for comments made in the hours after conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s shocking Sept. 10 murder.

At least 10 of the firings to date have involved college and local government employees in the Palmetto State, including professors at Clemson, the University of South Carolina and Coastal Carolina University, as well as four Greenville County educators and public safety workers.

The S.C. dismissals are taking place amid what critics call a larger Trump administration crackdown on free speech — and follow threats by Republican leaders to defund state institutions that refuse to act against workers whose social media posts celebrated or made light of Kirk’s killing.

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