Multiple Canadian professors took to social media to cheer the public murder of U.S. political commentator Charlie Kirk

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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.

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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 radical left’ finally sent someone with good aim,” in an Instagram post. Bose’s Instagram page has since been cleared of posts.

"Good riddance. The radical left finally sent someone with good aim."

University of Victoria professor Melia Bose, who studies the "intersections of gender, power, and art" is celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder.

She should be fired, immediately. pic.twitter.com/mBnWM92Iy7

Against a headline reporting Kirk’s murder, University of Calgary associate professor Tawab Hlimi wrote “bullseye,” and then “Charlie Kirk no longer exists” with an emoji of a laughing face.

A University of Toronto political science professor, Ruth Marshall, uploaded a post on Sept. 10 reading “shooting is honestly too good for so many of you fascist c–ts.” Marshall’s prior posts have often adopted a loose definition of “fascist,” with the professor at one point referring to a Jewish children’s summer camp as “