The sociopathic president gets sacked

The Herald reports:

The Oxford Union is, in its own estimation, “the world’s most prestigious debating society”, where international guests and speakers have sat for pointed interviews and stood for lively debate in its hallowed halls since 1823.

Guests have included Bernie Sanders, Ronald Reagan, Ricky Gervais, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein and Michael Jackson – and, just this May, Charlie Kirk, the firebrand conservative American activist who was killed in September.

Today, the Oxford Union president-elect, a 20-year-old student who appeared to celebrate Kirk’s killing, has been removed from office. 

He lost a confidence vote that has drawn attention among student members and thousands of alumni from around the world who are eligible to cast ballots by proxy.

Sky News reports that 501 voters had confidence in George Abaraonye, while 1228 wanted to remove him.

Pleased to see Oxford Union members know right from wrong.

What was shocking about Abaraonye’s reaction is that Kirk wasn’t some unknown political figure to him. He had actually met and debated Kirk at Oxford just a few months earlier. I can understand (but still condemn) such a reaction in response to the shooting of a stranger whose politics you disagree with, but you almost have to be a sociopath to have actually met someone, had a very civil debate with them, and them instinctively celebrate the fact they have been shot.