Professor Helen Benedict, writing in Common Dreams: “Nobody deserves to be murdered, as Kirk was, but to honor a man of his white supremacist, Christian nationalist, and misogynist beliefs was to spit in the face not only of all the women on campus, but of students and staff of color; the queer and trans students and employees whose identities he characterized as “abominations”; the Muslims whose religion, he said, “is a sword being used to slit the throat of America”; the immigrants he insisted will “replace us” with their “anti-white agenda”; and the Jews he accused of controlling America’s institutions.” Read her full commentary here.

Thank you, Terry Link, for submitting this article to FutureU.