Staff Reports
The week’s most chilling revelation isn’t just that Charlie Kirk was gunned down while doing the brave work of speaking to college students — it’s that a left-wing outlet openly boasted about paying Etsy witches to “hex” him days before the deadly attack. That piece, published on September 8 and framed as satire, described commissioning petty curses meant to humiliate and harass a public conservative, and then, two days later, Kirk was assassinated onstage at Utah Valley University.
Read in isolation, Jezebel’s article was grotesque and juvenile; read in context it looks dangerously reckless. The writer bragged about buying spells to “make everyone hate him” and even published alleged proof like a burned photo sent by a self-described practitioner — trashy clickbait that treated a real family like a joke. Whether intended as humor or not, the decision to market harassment-as-activism on a platform with millions of readers was irresponsible in the extreme.
Conservative voices are rightly furious, and not just because of politics. Megyn Kelly reported that Charlie and his wife Erika were genuinely rattled by that story and called in a Christian priest to pray over him the night before the attack — a private act of faith turned into public outrage by the media’s mockery. Jezebel later scrubbed the piece and appended a note condemning the violence, but the damage was done and the questions about motive and moral responsibility remain.
This isn’t merely about one offensive article; it’s about a left-wing cultural ecosystem that normalizes dehumanizing its opponents. When outlets treat threats, hexes, and harassment as entertainment, they lower the bar for real-world consequences. Corporate platforms that host this content — and marketplaces that profit by selling occult services as gimmicks — should be called out for enabling a climate where verbal savagery morphs into something far darker.
The other scandal is practical: the basic failure to protect a public figure speaking on a college campus. Reports and timelines show confusion over security, unmonitored access points, and missed red flags that allowed an assassin to take aim at a public event. If free speech is a pillar of American life, then campus administrations and law enforcement owe the public honest answers about why this preventable vulnerability existed.
We deserve accountability at every level — for the killer, who authorities say has been arrested and faces grave charges, and for the institutions and media that normalized a hateful, performative contempt for opponents. Conservatives will mourn, pray, and demand that outlets which egg on harassment answer for their role in creating a toxic culture. America should be a place where opposing ideas are debated loudly but human lives are never treated like content.
