Oklahoma trans woman fired over Charlie Kirk comments was nearly driven to suicide

"As a target of Charlie Kirk, I must admit, there is a grudging satisfaction that one who has wielded hate and stochastic terrorism is getting a taste of his own medicine," Schonauer wrote. "As a citizen of the United States, I am appalled by gun violence, and I send to his family thoughts and prayers."

"I lament the conditions that produced his violent death, the bereavement of his wife and children, and the inevitable backlash that is likely to land on vulnerable people who deserve no less empathy than you demand of me."

"I cannot, however, feel empathy for him. He helped construct the very conditions that took his life and did so gleefully," she wrote. "Do not shame me for feeling a certain amount of vindication at the death of an oppressor. I certainly know that some people will rejoice at my own demise."

Paula Sofia Schonauer, director of the Counseling Center at Oklahoma City University and a transgender woman, posted reactions to Charlie Kirk's death that mixed condemnation of his rhetoric with sorrow over gun violence. She said she felt a grudging satisfaction that someone who wielded hate and stochastic terrorism received consequences while also expressing being appalled by gun violence and offering thoughts to his family. She lamented the conditions that produced his violent death and warned of likely backlash against vulnerable people. Her posts triggered rapid online harassment, hateful insults, doxxing, and calls to her employer threatening to make her personal information public.

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