The group of liberal teachers will not condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk

The first group of teachers in the country defended the teaching of the faculty’s word after the murder of the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Charlie Kirk, but ceased to condemn his murder.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), founded in 1915, called for universities leaders to avoid “political pressure” to dismiss the members of the faculty on the comments made on conservative power following his death.

“The AAUP notes with a large alarm the eruption of recent administrative actions to discipline teachers, staff and student speech following the murder of Charlie Kirk,” the AAUP wrote in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “We write to remind the leaders of colleges and universities of their fundamental duty to protect academic freedom and absolute necessity to ensure that the freedom to discuss subjects of public importation without constraint is not limited under political pressure.”

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A group of leading teachers does not condemn the assassination of Kirk but condemns the licensed teachers on the speech celebrating his death on social networks. (Joe Raedle)

“At a time when higher education is threatened by the forces that seek to destroy it and its role in a democratic society, anticipated obedience shown by this rush towards judgment must be avoided,” he continued.

Before this statement on Monday, the AAUP only published only a statement last week, condemning “the recent and recurrent bomb and terrorist threats against several historically black colleges and universities”, but no separate declaration condemning the assassination of Kirk. AAUP has 44,000 members, according to its website.

AAUP Material published About TPUSA in October 2024, accusing the organization of engaging in a “racist, homophobic and transphobic speech on the campus” and described Kirk as a “”professional provocative,“” To say that he “built a perfecting career how to provoke students” and is “actively hostile to higher education”.

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Many residents and students returning to campus on Monday September 15, 2025, arrested a memorial at the University of Utah Valley to pay tribute to the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who was murdered less than a week ago. (Fox News Digital / Deirdre Heavey)

The teachers were also encouraged to hold the administrators responsible for setting up Kirk or TPUSA events on campus by petitions, without confidence and donors. The teachers were invited to add a language language or to put pressure for campus policies restricting unauthorized shooting in class, because the students affiliated with TPUSA recorded leftist teachers and submit their names to the surveillance list of the organization’s teacher.

When asked by Fox News Digital if he holds his previous descriptions of Kirk and Tpusa – and how he balances the support of teachers with the principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression for groups that oppose – AAUP has declared: “Colleges and universities should exercise a restraint and not interfere with legitimate evidence on external invitations Extraordinary where solid evidence of imminent assistants outside the expression of endangerment. ” “”

The AAUP did not answer a question of follow -up on the question of whether Tpusa and Kirk fall in the “extraordinary circumstances” where “danger” justifies the revocation of an invitation to university campuses.

AAUP has long marked out of progressive positions in higher education, frequently defending itself with teachers who oppose the restriction of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Last year, the group also reversed its long -standing opposition to university boycott policies.

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The commemorative monuments honoring Charlie Kirk took place across the country and abroad, including in Berlin. Kirk was murdered on September 10, 2025. (Ilkin Eskipehlivan / Anadolu via Getty Images)

The conservative leaders, including vice-president JD Vance, the deputy chief of staff of the White House for the Stephen Miller policy and the Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded responsibility for the rhetoric that they claim to favor hostility towards the Conservatives and can transform into violence. Meanwhile, the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox urged a “ramp” of the cycle of political antagonism.

FBI director Kash Patel said that people who knew the main suspect Tyler Robinson, including family members, have told investigators that Robinson “had subscribed to the left -wing ideology.” Family members also allege that Robinson expressed his hatred for Kirk’s opinions.

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Since Kirk’s assassination on September 10 during his “American return tour”, several educators and administrators of higher education have been investigated, suspended or licensed for social media positions celebrating or justifying his death.

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