The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout (Charlie Kirk)

[demmiblue]

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2026-03-01T15:25:50.790Z

Sickening.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Chasstev365]

2. Everything they do is a deliberate Fuck You to anyone who is not MAGA

[PittBlue]

3. WTF

As a retired educator this sickens me.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Disgusting. nt

[badhair77]

5. Given that the Sec of Education is the former CEO of WWE

I’m surprised they didn’t include Hulk Hogan. Grouping Charlie Kirk with Booker T Washington is sacrilege.

[2naSalit]

6. A few...

Flaming arrows would fix that problem.

[tanyev]

8. Paging Katniss Everdeen.....

[Dear_Prudence]

7. Who else?

I did an internet search to find out who else was included. According to a Breitbart "Exclusive", Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Anne Sullivan, Booker T. Washington, and Catharine Beecher are also featured. So Kirk is the Joker, the ringer, the sham, and the stain.

(I cite Breitbart because they claim this as an "exclusive" and other, more reliable, new sources did not immediately pop up in my search results. The article does give background on the other educators; I myself was unfamiliar with Beecher.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/28/exclusive-dept-of-education-honors-charlie-kirk-other-visionary-leaders-with-banners-for-250th-anniversary/

[MineralMan]

9. Department of Obfuscation More Like...

Kirk was a self-taught dropout, Not any sort of educational hero.

[La Coliniere]

10. Effing sick.

[Americanme]

11. How was Kirk a hero in American education?

He bullied young college kids on camera, so he could edit them into videos that made him look smart, and got rich doing it. He was not a good person, he was not a hero.

[keep_left]

12. "One of these things is not like the others...

...One of these things doesn't belong".