{"id":2442,"date":"2025-10-22T13:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:42:00","slug":"oxford-debating-society-votes-to-oust-president-over-kirk-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/oxford-debating-society-votes-to-oust-president-over-kirk-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford debating society votes to oust president over Kirk remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Union debating society announced Tuesday the ouster of\u00a0President-elect George\u00a0Abaraonye\u00a0after reported comments <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5501473-charlie-kirk-assassination-political-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrating the assassination<\/a> of\u00a0conservative activist Charlie Kirk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abaraonye\u00a0lost the no-confidence vote, with more than two-thirds of the Oxford society, one of the oldest in Britain, voting for his\u00a0resignation.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming president\u00a0allegedly celebrated the killing of Charlie Kirk on Instagram and WhatsApp, posting on Instagram, \u201cCharlie Kirk got shot\u00a0loool,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ceq0929eyg5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abaraonye\u00a0and Kirk met in May and debated toxic masculinity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abaraonye\u00a0received hate and racial abuse after the comments against Kirk came out, which the Oxford Union condemned, but also moved forward with disciplinary proceedings, the BBC\u00a0reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abaraonye called for the no-confidence vote himself, thinking he would beat the two-thirds measure needed for his ouster. He is currently challenging the results, alleging those who wanted him gone had\u00a0&#8220;unsupervised access&#8221;\u00a0to the email that received proxy votes, according to BBC.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0now-deleted Instagram\u00a0post,\u00a0Abaraonye\u00a0said the no-confidence vote would show the Oxford Union was a place where people could make mistakes and learn from them, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oxford-union-president-charlie-kirk-no-confidence-efe3d634c09f66e74d31b5434c760edc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The\u00a0Associated\u00a0Press\u00a0reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another no-confidence vote was recently called against the current,\u00a0outgoing\u00a0Oxford Union President\u00a0Moosa Harraj, which will take place Thursday.\u00a0The vote was called by those who think Harraj ran a compromised voting process against\u00a0Abaraonye.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Union debating society announced Tuesday the ouster of\u00a0President-elect George\u00a0Abaraonye\u00a0after reported comments celebrating the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}