Olivia Krolczyk has been on a mission since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, scouring social media to find those celebrating his death — then alerting their employers.
The 22-year-old takes credit for getting hundreds booted from their jobs.
“It’s not cancel culture, it’s holding people accountable,” she said in one video defending her actions.
Ms. Krolczyk, who has gained a following opposing transgender athletes participating in women’s sports and has appeared as a speaker for Mr. Kirk’s Turning Point USA, is not alone.
Furious at the nastiness and, in some cases, full-on embrace of political violence, conservatives are harnessing public pressure to go after targets big and small.
Vice President J.D. Vance urged people to report those celebrating Mr. Kirk’s death. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita made a particular plea for folks to turn in teachers or school administrators who “celebrate or rationalize” the slaying.
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“These individuals must be held accountable — they have no place teaching our students,” the Republican attorney general said.
A website was quickly set up to collect names to expose “Charlie’s murderers.” It was later taken down, but not before receiving tens of thousands of submissions.
The effort is still rolling on individual social media accounts like Ms. Krolczyk’s.
High-profile targets include late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel, who was suspended from his ABC show after comments suggesting President Trump’s supporters were attempting to “score political points” with Mr. Kirk’s death.
Political commentator Matthew Dowd was also fired from MSNBC for suggesting Mr. Kirk contributed to the circumstances of his death with his “hate speech.”
On the lower-profile side of the spectrum are hundreds of people who posted smiley faces, celebration images and lengthy statements suggesting Mr. Kirk’s slaying was justified or welcomed because of his views.
Teachers have become a particular focus.
Those engaged in the battle are taking plenty of blowback, at least online, where they are accused of “doxing” the Kirk-death celebrators. Doxing, loosely, is sharing personal information about someone online, usually to invite some consequence for that person.
Liberal-leaning media outfits say the campaign has gone off the rails by smearing people who reposted some of Mr. Kirk’s views but didn’t specifically mock him. They also pointed to reports of people wrongly tied to social media accounts.
Ms. Krolczyk, in social media replies to her critics, rejected the “doxing” label as well as accusations of taking part in a “cancel culture.”
“Hate speech is still free speech. You can respond to Charlie Kirk’s death in whatever manner you want, by saying whatever you want. But you have to understand that I also have free speech to let your employer know what you have said on your public profile. Then your employer can act in whatever way they want,” she said. “It’s not cancel culture, it’s hold people accountable.”
She added: “To be honest, the only reason why more people haven’t been fired is not that many liberals actually have jobs.”
