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Scott Adams: Why Did People Think They Could Cheer Charlie Kirk’s Murder Without Consequences?

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Posted By Tim Hains
On Date September 14, 2025

Scott Adams discusses why people are surprised to face consequences for cheering the murder of Charlie Kirk.

“These people are saying it in public for the world to see, as if thats what a normal person would think. How hypnotized would you have to be?” he wondered. “They are responsible, but they are also victims because theyve been hypnotized to believe something hideous. Imagine them going through life thinking that they live in a world that had been taken over by some Hitler character. I dont even know what that would feel like, but it would certainly distort your opinions and actions.”

SCOTT ADAMS: There are numerous stories of teachers and people associated with schools who are getting canceledmeaning firedfor saying horrible things: essentially being happy, or saying it was justified, that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. What do you think about that? People are losing their jobs all over the place.

Well, let me tell you the thing that is most shocking about that. The most shocking thing is that the people who spoke out that way believed they wouldnt get fired. I think they were all surprised, which means theyve been living entirely within a bubble in which they thought other people would agree with that. Are you kidding me?

They thought they were in the bubble of reality wherelets say that Hitler was an American and he diedwould you feel bad about saying, Thank God Hitler died? No, you wouldnt, because you would assume that almost every single person would agree with you. So it would be easy to say that.

These people are saying it in public for the world to see, as if thats what a normal person would think. How hypnotized would you have to be?

So, in my mind anywayand I think Ive said it online at least onceI think of these people as the hypnotized Hitlerians. You can drop the hypnotized if you need to. But the Hitlerians are people who live in this little world where they think Hitler actually came to power in the United States because so many bad people on the left have been saying that. People should know better.

So I actually have some weird empathy for these teachers getting fired for saying horrendous things about Charlie Kirk, because they actually think theyre in a different reality than they are. How do you think youre in a different reality? Is it because you individually had some mental problem? Probably not. Its probably really a predictable outcome of the rhetoric that were seeing from the left. Its the most predictable outcome: that people would believe all the Hitler stuff as literalOh, its literally as bad as Hitler; we better do something about it.

So I would say the people getting canceled are, in their own wayalthough, you know, our system is that you have to hold them responsible. Im not saying theyre not responsible. They are responsible, but they are also victims because theyve been hypnotized to believe something hideous. Imagine them going through life thinking that they live in a world that had been taken over by some Hitler character. I dont even know what that would feel like, but it would certainly distort your opinions and actions.

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