TikToker Backs Political Assassination After Charlie Kirk’s Death | China in Focus

by EditorR

A U.S. college student is going viral online for endorsing “political assassinations.” She says her professor asked the class to give “hot takes” on Charlie Kirk’s death, and she shared hers. The student of Oberlin College said: “I’ve been saying we need to bring back political assassinations, I don’t feel bad, and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech.”

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