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Ga. teacher gets nearly $300K in settlement over Charlie Kirk social media post (www.ajc.com)

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 102 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On the day Kirk was shot and killed while onstage at an event at Utah Valley University, Mickens posted a quote from Kirk on her private social media account after work hours from her personal computer, according to the lawsuit.

“‘I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. — Charlie Kirk,’” the post read. It did not include any commentary from Mickens.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Lol. Gotta love conservaflakes violating citizen's 1st amendment rights for verbatim quoting a conservaflake icon.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

"I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

— Charlie Kirk

— Michelle Mickens

— floofloof

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 weeks ago

I wish I would have gotten fired for a Charlie Kirk post. It seems to have been worth it for most people who were.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 14 points 3 weeks ago

Daymn, now I wish I was more vocal in supporting his death irl

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Right? I talked all sorts of Charlie Kuck shit. Where's my payout?

It's the one time I'm not proud of keeping myself anonymous online.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Wow… so 10 years salary… /s.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

You can remove the /s, that number is pretty close to accurate.

People constantly complain about how public education is lacking. And yet public school teachers are continuously paid fucking horribly low salaries and expected to perform miracles in the classroom in the form of students becoming well educated upstanding members of society.

[-] Truthtwopower@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

This is f****** disgusting.

[-] realitista@lemmus.org 16 points 3 weeks ago

At least she got paid.

[-] shirasho@feddit.online 12 points 3 weeks ago

With our tax money, most likely.

[-] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Finally, a good use of my taxes.

[-] deacon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

The success of capitalism. A hostile felon is looting our coffers to the tune of billions and we are giving a fucking teacher the side eye for getting a pittance.

[-] MJKee9@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Do you live in the Georgia county where she was fired? I bet the answer is no. Then why do you think it is your tax money funding the payment? Do you even live in the US?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Did you know counties get federal money to fund schools? Yeah. It's true. Wild.

[-] MJKee9@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

What percentage of your tax dollars ended up in that Georgia county to fund a 300k settlement. Probably zero. Assuming it was 100% was funded with federal dollars, let's do the math: about 50% of the federal tax revenue (5 trillion) came from individual income taxes (2.4 trillion). The average us taxpayer pays 14k in taxes each year. Do the math on a 300k payout and that equals .000875 cents came from each taxpayer. With that said federal monies to school districts are typically earmarked.... So the most likely scenario is zero money came from the poster.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

He lives in the same goddamn duplex! “Dey tuk ur money!”

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

too bad they can't use more of those taxes to pay other teachers, too

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

*was fucking disgusting, he’s dead now

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

yep, less than $300K for getting fired and having to go through that is bullshit

[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Finally some good news

[-] realitista@lemmus.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

I posted that quote too.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sends a pretty clear message, huh? Try harder next time.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hell yeah.

Let's get Charlie Kuck's take on this.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

He's been strangely silent for awhile.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I for one applaud the fact that he has toned down his racist rhetoric.

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

The district agreed to pay Mickens $270,420 for “alleged emotional distress” and $17,080 to her attorney to cover legal fees, according to a copy of the settlement agreement obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request.

Not enough. They destroyed her fucking career. Apologies to Georgians, but it’s really an awful place.

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