L to R: Frau Magill, Frau Gay, Frau Kornbluth [photo: Babylon Bee] |
Question: What’s the difference between a lightbulb and a prostitute?
Answer: You can unscrew a lightbulb.
The presidents of Harvard, and UPenn made a feeble attempt at damage control after they testified on Capitol Hill for the House Committee on Education and the Workplace on Tuesday regarding anti-Semitism at their respective schools of leftist learning and along with the president of MIT came off with talking points that were obviously prearranged, perhaps by a legal team. But they received tons of negative feedback from the public and knew they were screwed.
Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, and University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill each testified and when Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked them whether the call for genocide and mass violence against Jews would be considered a violation of harassment and bullying policies of their schools, she was stunned by the responses she received.
Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, and University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill each testified and when Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked them whether the call for genocide and mass violence against Jews would be considered a violation of harassment and bullying policies of their schools, she was stunned by the responses she received.
[H/T Townhall.com]
They tried to play it off as free speech and as long as nobody acted out on it, no foul, no harm. It all "depends on the context," or "when speech crosses into conduct."
What a load of crap. Put the shoe on the other foot and see how they would have responded if, say, genocide of blacks or gays was called for by students. You don't have to imagine the response because it's obvious.
Their prepared answers and failure to "answer with moral clarity" shocked both those on the left and the right.
This is a question a child could answer, unless the child grew up in Gaza, perhaps.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, was livid.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement on Wednesday, “It’s unbelievable that this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country. Any statements that advocate for the systematic murder of Jews are dangerous and revolting — and we should all stand firmly against them, on the side of human dignity and the most basic values that unite us as Americans.
“It should not be hard to condemn genocide, genocide against Jews, genocide against anyone else,” he told reporters. “I’ve said many times, leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test. There should be no nuance to that — she needed to give a one-word answer,” he added.
“It should not be hard to condemn genocide, genocide against Jews, genocide against anyone else,” he told reporters. “I’ve said many times, leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test. There should be no nuance to that — she needed to give a one-word answer,” he added.
By Wednesday afternoon, a petition calling for Ms. Magill’s resignation had grown to more than 3,000 signatures. Marc Rowan, the chief of Apollo Global Management and the board chair at the Wharton School of Business at Penn, asked the board of trustees to rescind their support for Ms. Magill.
“How much damage to our reputation are we willing to accept?” he wrote in a letter to the trustees.
Governor Shapiro, who is a nonvoting member of Penn’s board, urged the trustees to meet soon.
University sources, speaking on background, said that efforts were underway to hold a board meeting by phone this week. The university did not respond immediately to a request for comment. [...]
One can imagine people in the Middle East scrambling to deal with damage control.
Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and Harvard alumnus, called on all three presidents to resign, citing the exchanges over genocide.
“It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews,” he wrote on X. “This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress.”
“They must all resign in disgrace,” he continued. “If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.”
Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and Harvard alumnus, called on all three presidents to resign, citing the exchanges over genocide.
“It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews,” he wrote on X. “This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress.”
“They must all resign in disgrace,” he continued. “If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.”
With so many calls to resign, Gay and Magill did damage control on Wednesday.
“In that moment, I was focused on our university’s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable, [blah, blah, blah]” Magill said in a video statement. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It’s evil — plain and simple.”
“In that moment, I was focused on our university’s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable, [blah, blah, blah]” Magill said in a video statement. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It’s evil — plain and simple.”
Her Peter Strzok smile no longer seen on her face as she put on a serious demeanor and faked sincerity.
She went on to say she believed "it would be harassment or intimidation" and said Penn is initiating "a serious and careful look at our policies."
She went on to say she believed "it would be harassment or intimidation" and said Penn is initiating "a serious and careful look at our policies."
While donors may stop donating to these institutes of wokeism, unless something is done about stopping federal funding and foreign donations, nothing is going to change.
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