Ousted UPenn''s board chair says donors shouldn't have say in policy even though that's isn't why they pulled donations

Scotty Bok, the UPenn's ousted board chairman says that donors shouldn't have a say in school functions after several of the wealthy businessman donors withdrew their donations to the anti-Semitic school after Jew-hatred incidents occurred on campus and their now ousted president Liz Magill, refused to say whether calling for Jewish genocide constituted harassment or threats, claiming that it depended on the context or behavior. 

Liz Magill

Of course, this all came after the October 7 attack by Hamassholes on Israelis in their beds that killed over 1,200 men, women and children in a single day. It also came after repeated incidents of context and behavior of anti-Semites on campus threatening, harassing and intimidating Jewish students.

But Bok fails to see the reality of the situation. He thinks they withheld their funds in order to get the school to do something about Jew hatred, not because they personally found the hypocrisy of Magill and the school in general when it comes to the Jewish students. 

Use the wrong pronoun some woke student insists you call him or her, you're in trouble. Make a racist remark about any other group beside Jews, you're in trouble. Misgender a mentally ill male student who thinks he's a girl, or a female student who thinks she's a boy, you're in trouble. Call out "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and you're in the club.

“I think donors are absolutely free to give to whatever organizations they want or not to, and to withhold for any reason they choose to,” Bok told Bloomberg TV.

“But they are not shareholders so I don’t think they should have a particularly loud voice on how universities are run.”

Donors don't want a say in how the school should be run--they want a say in how it should not be run, what should not be permissible. They don't even complain about the school's useless gender studies curriculum and have remained silent on the DEI hiring practices. But for the donors, a substantial number who are Jewish, donating to such a school was too much to expect.

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