UPenn loses $100,000,000 donation after Magill's congressional testimony

Frau Elizabeth Magill

University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, along with Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Each one of these bozos had similar prepared answers to the question posed by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as to whether calling for the death of Jews went against the harassment policies of their respective schools. Each said, in effect, that it depended upon the context and whether the harassment went against an individual.

It was obvious that they were coached as to what to say and it was both cold and disgusting to hear them each refuse to admit what a 3-year-old could answer correctly. Not only that, but if the "context" was about black people or LGBTQ people, people would be expelled, if not indeed incarcerated.

So people chanting and calling for the genocide of Jews must be explored under an academic microscope because these three universitards are too simpleminded to recognize neo-Nazi and Islamic rhetoric in front of their smug faces.

That smugness and refusal to protect Jewish students has  cost UPenn $100 million (via Axios):

A UPenn donor is withdrawing a gift worth around $100 million to protest the school's response to antisemitism on campus. [With such a strong move, you might think the next thing to happen is for the school to forbid men to compete against women in sports.]

The final straw for Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, was fed up with Tuesday's widely criticized congressional testimony by Penn's president Magill.

The gift from Stevens, a Penn undergrad alum, was given in December 2017 to help establish a center for innovation in finance. It was in the form of limited partnership units in Stone Ridge, with the current value estimated at around $100 million.

Stevens, in a letter from his lawyers to Penn, alleges that the school has violated the terms of the limited partnership agreement, including its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.

"Its permissive approach to hate speech calling for violence against Jews and laissez faire attitude toward harassment and discrimination against Jewish students would violate any policies of rules that prohibit harassment and discrimination based on religion, including those of Stone Ridge," Stevens wrote.

Magill has the constitutional right to say whatever she wants and defend her belief that Jews should all die, and Ross Stevens has the same right stand by his moral principals and refuse to support the school that holds the genocidal hatred. 

So UPenn can keep Magill on board as their president, but they should not expect decent people to support the school. Hopefully, this will carry over to every university and academic institution that supports hatred of any group of individuals.

Context? Schmontext. 

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Ivy League Presidents try damage control after anti-Semitic testimonies

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.

[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.

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.” 

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.”

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."

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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