Last Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) pressed the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT about rising antisemitism on college campuses and whether the speech calling for “intifada” or the elimination of the Jewish people violates their schools’ codes of conduct. The alarming responses are now leading to severe blowback on the presidents.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct?” Rep. Stefanik asked. “It is a context-dependent decision,” replied UPenn’s Elizabeth Magill. “If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.” Stefanik was stunned. “‘Conduct’ meaning committing the act of genocide?” an incredulous Rep. Stefanik asked. “The speech is not harassment. This is unacceptable.”
The New York Republican then went on to ask each of the university presidents the same series of questions.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules on bullying and harassment?” she asked Harvard’s Claudine Gay. “It can be, depending on the context,” Ms. Gay responded. “What’s the context?” Rep. Stefanik followed up. “Targeted at an individual,” the Harvard president said. “It’s targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals,” Rep. Stefanik shot back. “Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them? Do you understand that dehumanization is part of antisemitism?” WATCH:
Today, Ms. Liz Magill was removed from her position as U-Penn president.
(Politico) – […] University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Saturday voluntarily stepped down from her role after facing intense blowback following a House Education committee hearing this week.
Magill has agreed to stay in her role until an interim president is selected, according to a statement from Penn Trustee Board Chair Scott Bok.
“It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution,” Magill said in the statement. “It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni and community members to advance Penn’s vital mission.”
Magill, along with Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth, participated in a contentious, more than five-hour grilling from lawmakers Tuesday over their response to antisemitism on their campuses.
[…] Magill is the first president to step down over a response to campus antisemitism. Stefanik called for all three presidents to be fired after the hearing. And in response to their testimony, several lawmakers and top officials across the aisle have slammed the presidents for refusing to say calls for “Jewish genocide” violate their codes of conduct around bullying or harassment.
[…] Stefanik, who led the toughest questioning at Tuesday’s hearing and has called for all of the presidents to be fired, wrote on X that Magill’s “forced resignation” is only the beginning for addressing antisemitism on college campuses.
“One down,” Stefanik said. “Two to go.” (read more)
This is what happens when we stop pretending the leftists are stable people; they are not.
Leftism, in the most modern and culturally Marxist ideology, is fraught with intended hypocrisy. If the word “Jew” had been replaced with any other characteristic of personage like black, Latino, gay, lesbian etc., and the same question about pronouncements for the elimination of people carrying those characteristics was questioned, the answers would have been entirely the opposite. This is the nature of hate-filled leftist thought.
Stefanik called it out openly; she did not pretend. Now we see the consequences.
Let us hope that more people can begin calling out the pretenses, the absurd ideological hypocrisy framed from hate, that forms the culturally Marxist mindset.
Well done, Miss Stefanik. Well done.
Ms Stefanik was also the Congress rep who trapped Comey im nto admitting he had sicced the FBI on Trump and not informed Congress
But didn’t follow up.
Sundance did!
She didn’t follow up because she was new to Congress and unaware of the implications of Comey’s answer.
What was most egregious was that NO seasoned Congress person caught Comey’s answer and followed up.
Remember the quick, sharp look Trey Gowdy gave Ms. Stefanik? Why didn’t he follow up? He exposed himself as uniparty in that moment.
It was a sharp look of reprimand. I remember it was discussed extensively here.
How about WE start asking the right f’ing questions? This was a baby step, now how about taking strides! This is NOT just for higher learning!
The NYTs is already providing cover. They are saying the presidents fell into a trap laid by Stefanik
hotair.com/headlines/2023/12/09/its-a-trap-nyt-making-excuses-for-poor-college-presidents-hoodwinked-into-exposing-themselves-n597797
These three academics FELL INTO A PIT OF THEIR OWN MAKING.
Hey, man–just like Haman!
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Hillsdale is one of the few that actually teaches students about academics!
Funny that… the leftist media always has ’em covered! A pox on them too!
Kinda odd how the Left loses every time in a conversation, one would think they (the Left) would dummy up!
Right, that nasty white MAGA extremist!
Give me a break.
Only a moron would fall for the BS!
The NYT: where evil goes to get some help.
Oh brother! 🙁 Yeah, she’s a tricky one–that Elise; good grief, Charlie Brown! 🙁
I like her. She was not a “spitfire” when initially elected; she vocally made her points without causing havoc – likely treading the water. Well, she treaded and it didn’t take long for Elise to find her sea-legs, i.e., voice.
lol what was the trap?
Sanity?
Logic.
Sensibility!
The paper for bird cage floors says.
Would these “ladies” say the same if the KKK marched and called for an in intifada of da Jews?
Doesn’t the NYT think all republicans are essentially uneducated and dumb?
And these Ivy League presidents are hyper liberal, so by NYT standards must be brilliant, therefore:
The NYT wants everyone to believe their hyper elite super smart folks (who can’t tell a boy from a girl) got TRAPPED by a Republican bumpkin?
Not a smart line of reasoning, now is it, NYT?
Life is tough. It’s tougher if yer stupid….
If they didn’t have DOUBLE standards, they would have no standards at all.
The NYT is aware that all Repubs are not essentially uneducated and dumb. Heck, many of these repubs are in the corner with and in the pockets of the big money donors. Yes, it is a Uniparty. They grease each other’s palms and then put on their dog-and-pony shows for their constituents.
The elites, trying to classify all repubs/conservatives as rural hicks and “smelly Walmart shoppers” – as per Peter Strzok’s statement to Congress, will not succeed. Evil never wins in the end.
Did the NYT fall into a trap laid by Stalin & Hitler?
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Psalm 35:8-10
Freedom Rings: Yeah, Stefanik was taking advantage of those poorly educated Ivy and MIT presidents. Congressional privilege. It’s just not fair.
But she wasn’t controlling their demeanor,nor the way they acted like it was humorous.
They were so condescending.
What if we called for their extermination????Not just termination????
They have no natural affection….their souls are dead.
I see no redeeming qualities in these soulless women. They are ugly inside and out.
I guess they are not so smart then. I thought you had to be smart to go to Penn? Disgusting.
Penn — the same college who let Riley Gaines (from the University of Kentucky) swim against a Penn man, and then when they tied, the NCAA allowed HIM to hold the women’s trophy!
Woke is all throughout women’s sports — and Gaines is one woman who is actually standing up to these so-called smart people who are destroying everything that’s good.
Those women should be working at an Elementary School lunchroom somewhere. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Stefanik is right. One down, two to go. But it’s not good enough. Let’s get her off the payroll.
No, these 3 anti-Semites should NOT be working anywhere, especially in our elementary schools!
True
They belong in Times Square roasting chestnuts or selling footlong hotdogs, if they even know how to cook. Otherwise, they’d be useful picking up trash along the highways. In
orange pinnies.
I vote for them picking up trash along the highways. Maybe.
When you make a woman powerful, a monster is created. I’ve worked for many female monsters. As soon as they got promoted, I quit.
Good point, Abigail
Elementary schools? These 3 Lefties are ALL Presidents of Major Colleges/Universities in OUR Country. Thry have been in charge of and/or in cahoots with the financial Leftists.
Good grief. Look at these “women.” That Claudine Gay Pres of Harvard is really a piece of work; she looks like all the members of the “squad” in Congress all rolled into one.
They should be nowhere around children and nowhere around food. Let them dig ditches or hose out old septic tanks or something.
Mmmm… I tend to think that even an elementary school lunchroom is not safe with any of these NON-critical thinking bigoted women. They were dancing all around the question to avoid answering truthfully, therefore seeking to avoid accountability. Adults who wish to avoid accountability have no place around children anywhere.
Agreed. They would probably sneak pork into meals requested by kosher children.
They fear their universities’ tenured professors and their flying monkeys. They are tenured members of the same tribe. They fear ostracization from committing heresy against the tribe far more than being fired by the various universities’ Boards of Trustees.
The Penn president is still working in the law department
And they said she will be tenured.
Meaning……untouchable.
She already is tenured: a fall-back to Professor status comes with any higher education President gig.
Maybe after some public repentance.
ONE DOWN. MANY, MANY MORE TO GO.
Note to ALL academia: YOU ARE ON NOTICE.
I asked you 17 times! You spoke your truth’: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik blasts Harvard president’s apology for saying calls for ‘genocide of Jews’ only constitute harassment ‘depending on the context’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12844177/Congresswoman-Elise-Stefanik-blasts-Harvard-presidents-apology.html
SEVENTEEN-17-TIMES!!!
DOES “CONTEXT ” MEAN ONLY WHEN A JEWISH STUDENT IS KILLED???
And note–all 3 used the word CONTEXT.
COLLUSION
Bravo Elise
Two of the three were coached/prepped by the same law firm. The only reason they needed coaching was because there is absolutely no excuse for the blatant anti-Semitism that they were condoning.
I laughed out loud when I saw Claudine Gay(on tv and social media). She obviously got her job because of her “interesting” looks, race, gender. Claudine is a caricature of Leftist Ideology.
Perhaps they all used the same words (‘’context’’), because they coordinated their responses. There is a New York Times article that says all 3 university presidents were ˋˋprepared’’ by the same law firm. (I think that it seems to have been a bizarre sort of preparation)
Vera: They all read Hillary’s book, “How to Testify in Congress: Lessons from a Pro”.
If that’s the case, they’re so stupid that they forgot the #1 escape clause: “I’m sorry, I just don’t remember.”
Whoo-hoo!!! Great post, Listless!!! Perfect!
The phrase ‘depending on the context’ is the wiggle room that Postmodernists always fall back on. They never admit that there are absolute objective truths. In fact, the basic Postmodernist axiom, they most strongly cling to as an absolute truth is that ‘There is no absolute truth.’ Therefore, they are caught in contradiction.
Imagine it their Day of Judgement before The Alpha and Omega, King of Kings, Lord of lords, THE Absolute Truth from Whence ALL TRUTH flows. Will the smirking fly? Will the “depending on context” line work? Will the denial of absolute truth be a good MO? Methinks no.
These “ladies” will have a tougher time than most, I think…..
Good catch on the ‘collusion’ bit.
Those presidents even got Bill Maher calling Ivy League students idiots. Priceless.
Well, hey.. Maher obviously thought he was in the ‘cool club’ until suddenly he was not. And that’s how it always goes for useful idiots. Always.
Thank goodness that at least SOME of them may FINALLY be coming to their senses! Americans -especially these liberal snobs- have been manipulated by enemy *combatants* to renounce their own people, and for no good reason. Just to make them FEEL good while forgiving these atrocities.
When it gets down to the finish line, however, NO ONE looks kindly on the useful idiots! And I mean no one.
Any lawful speech should be tolerated, even though what is said might be contradicting our own morals and values.
Only actions can be punishable.
Speech is not action. People should generally grow thicker skin to be able to handle speech they dont like. The solution is not to lock everyone up that says something you disagree with.
This is why we have dialog and debate to lay out, have a forum and listen to eachothers viewpoint and have a chance to persuade others with facts.
Just my 2 cents.
Absolutely not. Threats of physical violence are never acceptable if we’re going to have a civil society. That’s the yelling fire in the crowded movie theater exception. Everyone gets that. Don’t be dense.
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Yes and besides that threats just telegraph your punches.
The lectern, the thesis, the dais, those are the places at which free academic expression reign, for they are intellectual pursuits in temperate environments designed for vigorous and open, free-ranging debate of IDEAS.
The campus square aggregations of activists advocating for “extreme” actions are not intellectual pursuits but are instead action itself: it is activism, explicitly. It is LEGAL per the constitution. It is likely a violation of an honorable institution’s code of conduct; the precise point of open dialogue in pursuit of higher learning is in the CLASSROOM and DEBATE HALL.
“vigorous and open, free-ranging debate”
Vigorous and open debate forbidden to veer into the intemperate is language code by a different name.
“vigorous and open, free-ranging debate”
… doesn’t take place with a bullhorn and assembled, incited mob
… nor chasing Jewish students down hallways and trapping them in the library
Or similarly using such tactics to prevent conservatives from speaking at sanctioned events on campus, for years.
OR administrators requiring enormous fees, to pay for extra security measures, because leftist student groups threatened to riot, in order to prevent conservative speakers from being heard.
They’re f****** prosecuting our president for telling people to demonstrate peacefully and patriotically at the same time. There is no equivalency here
Okay, how about minus the bullhorn as in a quieter expression of speech?
That’s a brave 2 cents in the current milieu. And a minority view as all brave stands tend to be.
apples and oranges
Amjean: Indeed. The 3 presidents were basically in contempt, playing the same game that all their fellow travelers play when testifying before Congress.
However, they are suppose to have a code of conduct which is different from freedom of speech which they don’t believe in anyway..
They believe in freedom of speech, alright. Freedom for THEIR form of speech. Yours, not so much. They are never asked about that qualifier, so they go on with the equivocation unheeded.
Threatening genocide or harm to another person or persons is more than just speech. It is menacing. It is harassment. It is threatening. While speech is not action, menacing speech used as a threat can certainly lead to action. Threats are more than just dialog, which implies a two person exchange of conversation. In terms of being ‘lawful’ our laws should be based on solid and civil morality. Morality should not come from laws, but laws from morality. If society’s morals are in the mud, our laws reflect that (as can be seen). Without God to hold nations accountable for their moral behavior, a nation collapses (history shows this). Speech, which displays what is in someone’s mind and heart, leads to action, whether good or bad.
One thing is making lawful repulsive speech and another thing is making lawful repulsive speech and keeping your job at a prestigious university.
I have not read one word suggesting that any of them should be arrested.
“Only actions can be punishable.”
Not true. “Hate crimes” were put on the books so that two people who committed precisely the same criminal action will be punished–punishment to be determined by what they were thinking when they committed the actions.
The capacity to punish THOUGHTS has been on the books since 1978.
Yes, but doesn’t that thought (state of mind) have to accompany a criminal “action.”
“Any lawful speech should be tolerated, “
…
Because the First Amendment only protects individuals against government infringements upon free speech rights,
First Amendment protections for speech activities in the workplace are generally not available to employees of private companies or institutions.
…
While the First Amendment protects employees’ right to speak their minds,
the First Amendment does not protect workers from suffering the natural and foresee- able consequences
of being disciplined
or terminated for undesirable
or unwanted speech.
Elise was amazing, they were all hired under DEI
There’s wild fish, farm raised fish, and then there’s barrel raised fish. Sometimes there is no competition in the catch.
Ditto Ivy League executive intellectual debate.
Those ‘Three Stooges’ should be on a billboard somewhere with the title “DEI in Action” plastered on it.
Ace of Spades HQ (mu.nu):
“Glenn Reynolds puts it perfectly:
Emphasis added.
Yes, that’s it, that’s it! That’s been tip of my tongue for days now!
If you have a flat policy of allowing all speech, you do not necessarily endorse any kind of speech — it’s simply your policy to allow all kinds of speech. Your endorsement is not implied.
But if your policy is to routinely censor speech, and only selectively allow speech, then you definitely are endorsing the speech you permit, because you’ve shown what you do with speech you don’t endorse: you censor it, you forbid it. Therefore, in a regime or routine censorship, any permitted speech is officially endorsed speech.
The below video from FP.com makes a similar point, for you Visual Learners. Their argument is just contrasting the two wildly different standards employed by these formerly “elite” universities:
For all browner-skinned students, and for gays and especially trans students, the policy is “safety first:” any claim of “harm” from speech is presumed to not only be true but to be absolutely controlling. If someone says they’re harmed by speech, that speech must be shut down.
But for Jews — and, of course, for all non-minority men and straights — the policy is “anything goes.”
This cannot be sustained. You cannot claim “the Constitution” demands this.
The Constitution has nothing to do with this Different Rights For Different People regime.” …….
Well done, Gipper lives!
This was Ace’s writing.
Well, the italicized was Glenn Reynolds. The rest is Ace.
Aside from that, yes. Well done, indeed.
tried to make that clear–I’ll work on it 🙂
Oh Gipper, you nailed it.
H1gh-urR Ed-U-Cay-shun SPeach Rulz:
Thou Shall Speak No ill of Laird Fau-chi!
Thou Shall Jen-o-Side the Pale Skins!
Thou Shallst trash the MAH-GUHs.
Thou Must We’re-Ship NAN-0-TECK.
Thou Must Submit to Sin-the-Tick BI-Ow-Low-Gee!
And as a last resort, one must always remember Sit-you-way-shun-hell Eth-icks!
Replaced with any other characteristic except “ white” or “ Christian”. Either of those adjectives would have drawn either applause or gone unmentioned, even by the Congresswoman. Hypocrisy indeed.
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I am waiting for the other 2 to resign
Will Gay resign?
One of the big donors called her a DEI appointment
Its just symbolic.
Does anyone here doubt that this Harvard “Gay” hasn’t already been assured of employment, probably with more $ and bennies, and ditto these other two.
They will NOT be struggling in poverty, thats assured.
True but at this point I’ll take what I can get.
But these elitist progs HAVE been publicly bitch slapped by Congress. This might bring pause and even prompt some normies -dare I say college students- to think outside of their libtard boxes.
Let’s at least TRY to enjoy the little things.. shall we?
“She will remain tenured faculty at Penn Carey Law.”
She is a piece of work, physically and intellectually. She looks like the kind of person BHO or his side-kicks Val J, Susan R, would mentor and install into her position. Good Grief!!! Look at her!!! Listen to her!!!!
The poison Ivies have shown that they are not free speech absolutists since they have in the past acted to suppress conservative speech. So their reluctance to answer when asked the genocide question here is not due to deference to an impartial standard of freedom of speech, but rather to deciding which speech is worthy of protection under woke standards.
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Awesome! I’ve been saying for fifty years, STOP BEING NICE TO LEFTISTS.
David Horowitz has been all over this for years, stop treating leftists like you can “work with them”. They are evil, racist, hate filled, characterless, liars, thieves, and charlatans.
Why do we think Trump won both elections?! He called out the “bad, evil, people”, ie, leftists.
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Hold on,…moving away from the Universities rules or Code of Conduct, and whether Universities are tasked with ushering students into adulthood,…
ARE WE truly for FREE, which is to say UNRESTRICTED speech?
With the caveat of restriction speech such as adults soliciting children in order to try to get them to engage in sex, etc. do we not support even the KKK being issued a parade permit?
Once we start down the rode of saying that idiots are not allowed to chant “From the river to the sea,..” because it IS offensive, we are on a road that leads to declaring that chanting MAGA is offensive and so prohibited.
This installed regime has already designated MAGA as right-wing extremists and a threat to national security.
And, at a certain point, if your gonna be ACCUSED of doung something you didn’t do,…
I agree that free speech is free speech. But anyone who calls for the genocide of Jews deserves to be treated in like manner.
IOW there is no “protected” class when it comes to speech.
Speech can certainly be deemed offensive by some, but it should nevertheless be protected under the first amendment, until it becomes an *action* like assault.
We can certainly *decry* antisemitism and make them wallow in their hyprocrisy. As libtards routinely blur the lines between thought and action, let them suffer the repercussions for a change.
Abigail Straight: Same with Israel’s pejoratively misnamed “settlers,” some of whom are now also deemed “violent extremist,” by JoeBama’s executive decree, and banned from traveling to the US. Who is next? “Climate deniers”?
I’ve read and appreciated your comments for years. Just one reply here; liberty does not mean license. Please see my reply above to starfckr. If we are to survive as a civil society, then codes of conduct relating to ordered liberty need to govern ‘speech’ , which when used as menacing are more than just ‘speech’. There is a huge difference between MAGA chants and river to sea chants. But I think you make a good point about being offended. But I believe we can get into the weeds here if we are not careful. It comes down to defining terms (what speech actually is and the original intent of our Founding Fathers). Here where I live, it’s not illegal to say something offensive, but so called ‘hate’ speech is illegal in some areas. However, speaking offensively or menacing with speech are two different things. The intent of our Founding Fathers is key in this instance IMO.
Agreed
Progressives are the new Nazis.
They were the old ones too
Not “NEW”, really just switched around the furnishings and came up with new patter to distract the marks,…just like when “find the pea” streetcon was changed to “find the queen”.
Second verse same as the first !!!
Q. What is two plus two?
A. It depends on the context
Whats a WOMAN?
I can not answer that question.
Go try to milk a bull, and get back to me when you figure it out!
I can not answer that question
I’m not a biologist
Heeeeeeere’s yer US Supreme Court position!
And she will be on the Supreme Court for life.
Not a rancher either, obviously.
Uh…. bulls are milked with a special appliance…
Frankly, so are cows now adays nobody hand milks any more.
XY chromosomes can’t be converted into XX chromosomes via surgery, pharmaceuticals or by feelings!
dutchman: Would that include “chest feeding” bulls?
But Magill kept a position and PENSION from U Penn.
And, are there any men being promoted to senior positions at universities?
Just sayin.
Let’s see what Harvard and MIT do.
And you know if there are, they ain’t WHITE!
Nor Christian heterosexual
Ah, I’m old, and can’t keep up with ghe ever expanding list of protected classes, that now includes anyone who can claim they are not White, Male and straight.
They daily invent new identities and features which must be protected at the price of other’s freedoms.
GREAT POINT!
Stefanik did an outstanding job of cross examining these 3 social justice witches who didn’t get their positions on merit, but instead were rewarded for their correct political positions.
Their inability to recognize basic institutional responsibilities, or that their cocktail snark antisemitism is toxic outside of their insulated circle shows just how severely they are punching above their weight.
Today the Magill Penn embarrassment “resigned”, which is like saying Carlo is out of the family business, right before his feet go through the windshield. She received an offer she couldn’t refuse, ’cause if she did, she would have wound up in the Schuykil.
“Stefanik did an outstanding job of cross examining these 3 social justice witches who didn’t get their positions on merit, but instead were rewarded for their correct political positions.”
What a coincidence.
That’s the very same way today’s US Military decides who gets to be a general or admiral.
Don’t forget Obama retired a helluva lot of Generals and Admirals. That was part of fundamentally changing!
Other than the x and y variables, how is this situation any different from advancement and promotion in the Soviet Union 60 years ago?
@Sugarhillhardrock: You just hit a GRAND SLAM HOME RUN!
#SOCIALJUSTICEWITCHES
#SOCIALJUSTICEWARLOCKS
BRILLIANT!
And Jew should always be CAPITALIZED!
Suddenly the last few weeks since the 10/7 HAMAS attacks, I’ve seen it written in various places with a lowercase “j”.
It’s always a Proper noun, as is Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, etc.
Now if we can get people to stop referring to Ukraine as “The Ukraine.”
It is like nails on a chalkboard to my ears.
It rhymes with “The Science”, as in the biowarfare labs.
These three may make poor Ivy League Presidents , but they would make excellent Generals and Admirals in today’s American military.
The Ivy League IS their new army.
As a fellow New Yorker, Elise Stefanik made me proud of the way she handled the Traumatic Trio. She did not hold back, she was as clear as crystal in calling out their utter cold hearted hypocrisy and Jew hatred of these three Communist anti-Semites. How refreshing to see an elected representative with the courage of her convictions. We can use a few more like her.
Keeping my eye on Elise, she also was the first to openly challenge Liz Chaney, who at the time was third ranking R member, in the House.
So a pretty ballsy thing to fo, and she endorsed PDJT early on.
Trust NONE in Congress, and too tempting to start settling, but given that, she’s not bad.
Don’t forget how she NAILED the rat bastard Comey.
Every politician hates your guts! Fall in love with the results! Every politician should be defending The Constitution! They took an oath to defend it!!!
Magill steps down but tenured, so she gets her AntiSemitic Jihadi reward!
So glad the President of Penn has been forced out.
My granddaughter’s best friend, who is Jewish, is a freshman at Penn this year. She has felt unsafe on that campus since mid October.
Thats the same Penn U, where for YEARS they had a football coach buggering boys in the showers, and everybody knew but pretended they didn’t?
Well, you said SHE, so maybe SHE is safe, …but tell her not to drop the soap.
Penn is not Penn State.
That was Penn St on the boy thing.
This one is U Penn – Ivy League
I stand, er sit er actually am lieing down, corrected.
Although I think the scandal at Penn State probably highlighted a common thing at all Universities, the Football program is a major cash cow, and so lots of blind eyes turned,…
All good. I’m old too and in the same ‘position.’
Gotta love your humility on this one, dutchman!
Yes. Founded by Benjamin Franklin.
I don’t think he’d be impressed by their insanity today…
Jerry Sandusky was Joe Paterno’s assistant coach at PENN STATE UNIVERSITY – NOT UPenn.
dutchman: That was Penn State, not the University of Pennsylvania.
A few fun back-in-the-day things about UofP:
1) Teeshirts used to be sold that said Not Penn State – they were sensitive about being compared to a mere state school.
2) It was colloquially known as the Armpit of the Ivy League.
3) Way before practically any other pricey school of the type started getting speech-sensitive, there was a yuuuge bruhaha about a black student who had been called a “water buffalo,” leading to one of the earliest “racist” whines that ended up as the draconian speech codes they all have today.
“Let us hope that more people can begin calling out the pretenses, the absurd ideological hypocrisy framed from hate, that forms the
culturally MarxistNazi mindset.”Only one has been forced to step down
Magill has agreed to stay in her role until an interim president is selected, according to a statement from Penn Trustee Board Chair Scott Bok.
Utopian statist collectivists protecting utopian statist collectivists. She’s stepping down, not being fired, and staying to collect as many extra paychecks as she can before some othe utopian statist collectivist can be found to replace her..
E xactly. New boss, just like the old boss, its just kabuki theater.
In big institutions, they actually can run without the figurehead at the top….
Wondering if the 9 figure donor is happy enough now and reinstated his donation? Asking for a friend.
wonder why the Board Chairman Scott Bok quit too?
Total respect for Rep Stefanik. I happen to travel through her district quite often. Upstate NY is a beautiful place.
When I saw BILLBOARDS calling for her removal during President Trump’s presidency, I could see, firsthand, that she rattled the right cages.
The GOPe can’t stand her!
This gal is the real deal. Godspeed to you, Elise Stefanik!
Listen again to Joe Biden’s Hate MAGA speech last year (red and black backdrop with soldiers behind standing at attention) and substitute “Juden” for every time he said MAGA or White Supremacist and you would think you fell into a time machine and landed in 1932 Germany.
Attention passengers. This is your Captain speaking. This has only been a simulation. You have not really been transported to Germany sometime in the early 1930’s.
I’m sorry. The flight engineer just informed me this is the real thing. He said something about a Deep State Putsch and an FBI time vortex and a FISA worm hole. He has also informed me that we are now out of fuel.
From the river to sea, pedos will be free 🇮🇱🇮🇱💪🏿💪🏿
Sanhedrin 54b: “Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that…if one committed sodomy with a child of lesser age, no guilt is incurred.”
I do not know what particular line you are referring to but in Sanhedrin 54b the actual text says the following, see https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.54b.1?lang=bi. There are some other occurrences of the number “9” but this seems to be the one you might have in mind aside from its apparently completely different meaning.
20 The Gemara asks: With regard to what principle do Rav and Shmuel disagree? The Gemara answers: Rav holds that any halakha that applies to one who engages in intercourse actively applies to one who engages in intercourse passively, and any halakha that does not apply to one who engages in intercourse actively does not apply to one who engages in intercourse passively. Therefore, just as one who engages in intercourse actively is not liable if he is less than nine years old, as the intercourse of such a child does not have the halakhic status of intercourse, so too, if a child who is less than nine years old engages in homosexual intercourse passively, the one who engages in intercourse with him is not liable.
21 The Gemara asks: With regard to what principle do Rav and Shmuel disagree? The Gemara answers: Rav holds that any halakha that applies to one who engages in intercourse actively applies to one who engages in intercourse passively, and any halakha that does not apply to one who engages in intercourse actively does not apply to one who engages in intercourse passively. Therefore, just as one who engages in intercourse actively is not liable if he is less than nine years old, as the intercourse of such a child does not have the halakhic status of intercourse, so too, if a child who is less than nine years old engages in homosexual intercourse passively, the one who engages in intercourse with him is not liable.
Found in the bin… :-(
It’s no coincidence that all 3 are women because “Liberal, leftist” women are the absolute worst.
If you criticize them, Nimrata Nikki Randhowa Haley will say that you have “a girl problem.” Because she’s one of them.
They smirk over their not so clever permitting of calls for genocide of an entire people yet would be mightily triggered by the mere perception of side-eye at any of their own carefully curated identities and proclivities.
Or, as Elise just said: One down, two to go.
Great analysis by Victor Hanson
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/07/how-were-the-universities-lost/
What are the odds that all three of those prestigious university presidents would be women? This is what happens when you give affirmative action hires jobs they can’t do.
Women leaders are always more vindictive and mean then men. I think Jordan Peterson talks about this.
Amazing Polly’s got Jordan Peterson’s #.
Have you not noticed how many liberal women have been put in powerful positions both in academia AND the Biden Cabal. They are making mincemeat of their jobs. And you can add Disney to that and probably other big corporate jobs too.
And so many wonder where so many of our younger people acquired such radical and racist ideas?
It comes from so many of the liberal, racists professors at our colleges.
Now you know why they are so obsessed with pushing their radical training down to the High School & Elementary levels.
College isn’t good enough they MUST radicalize our children at an earlier age.
This is why they work so hard to by-pass the parents.
How is it that ONLY Hillsdale College requires civics class for all students in order to graduate? By the way they are the only college in the country that does not accept 1 penny from the Government.
PT should ask Hillsdale College to teach virtually all the classes and especially include their on-line civics class at his idea of free on-line college for all.
Imagine how many of these elitist college go under when their enrollment drops by 80%
“It comes from so many of the liberal, racists professors at our colleges.”
And colleges are where ROTC (pronounced “rot C) Second Lieutenants come from.
Homeschool, we don’t have the time, and there is far too much irreperable harm done in continueing to tryvto reform a totally corrupt system of public indoctrination.
Interesting point!
I watched the clip – stunning how banal the 3 stooges were. Obsequious was the word I was looking for…
Penn’s President, Liz Magill, channels Peter Strzok with that far-away, imbalanced, pretentious smirk. I truly hope her firing from Penn hurts her in her core.
Hers was the first smirk I’ve seen with the corners of the mouth distinctly turned down.
Their vile visages would find fellowship amongst the creations of Heironymus Bosch.
Touché, Maquis!
Evil is so often banal.
I would love to see the Dept. of Education dismantled and eliminated. The entire agency GONE. What they do is take our tax dollars, and then dole them back out to the States with strings attached. Usually there must certain types of “training” included, etc.
And I most especially resent any of the “ivy” league universities receiving federal monies.
Hillsdale and Liberty are the only two that I am aware of that succeed on their own merit, and do not accept federal funds. And that is why they are superior universities – they are free to truly educate their students.
That would help us with primary and secondary education, along with a wholesale boots-on-the-ground move to homeschooling.
For High-Urr Ed-U-Cay-Shun, voting with feet and not paying the outrageous entry fees is an easy solution: invest otherwise!
So-called smartest people in the world, blinded by their grievances and hatred which makes them incredibly stupid and dangerous.
At least their avarice should have saved them, when they considered their Jewish donors, but as Victor Hanson explained they get a HUGE amount of money from foreign students from the middle east, and elsewhere who have been raised on the mother’s-milk of anti-semitism.
TAX THOSE ENDOWMENTS!!!!!
PDJT intends to seize them.
Now that is the best thing I have heard all day! How much of a dent would that put into the national debt?
He intends to fund a real secondary education system with it.
He’s gonna Drill Baby Drill to pay down the debt!
Elise Stefanik came loaded for bear and ready for the cameras. Her suit is similar to the one she wore when she questioned Comey in 2017. Her makeup is professionally done.
Good job of picking ones fight and showing up ready to win.
Apparently she triggered enough powerful donors and they put pressure on Magill to resign. It is reassuring to see the American donors prevail, especially when there is a bar graph that shows Qatar as the top foreign donor to American universities.
Makes no difference. They are but the tip of the iceberg. These universities are full blown marxist establishments. All the way down to the janitor. They’ll just be replaced with another marxist and land a cushy job at some leftist think tank, CNN or MSNBC.
So very true. And it’s almost as bad at the FBI, DOJ and Pentagon.
They don’t have to go that far: they will all step down and assume roles as full tenured professors in the department of their academic discipline. I believe that Sally Kornbluth is a biologist. Not sure about Claudine Gay at Harvard.
Elise Stefanik exposed the inconvenient truth. God bless her.
Although she got fired from the presidency she still has a tenured position at Penn. We are witnessing the culmination of the death ☠️ cult communists multi-generational plan to defeat America that KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov described many years ago.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct?” Rep. Stefanik asked. “It is a context-dependent decision,” replied UPenn’s Elizabeth Magill. “If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.”
The context of which Magill speaks: it can be harassment if they like the speech, it would be if they don’t.
The top Israeli universities should offer special incentives, backed with US donor funding, for America Jewish students to transfer from US universities, with credits intact.
Nobody cared when the typical white person was being threatened since George Floyd expired.
So we now have competition among the fair sex to be the next Arthur Nebe, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, or maybe Adolph Eichmann.
What in the actual f** did I just watch? 3 out of 3 couldn’t answer, recommend every university president be called to congress to answer.. I’m thinking 80+% would answer the same.
Amid rising backlash, Harvard president sorry for not condemning Jewish genocide calls
Claudine Gay says she should have made it clear antisemitism should not go unchallenged; pressure rises on UPenn president to quit; prominent rabbi quits Harvard antisemitism board
https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-rising-backlash-harvard-president-sorry-for-not-condemning-jewish-genocide-calls/
So much as refer to any aspect of her person, even meaning well, and she is free to declare she has been assaulted and demand consequences, and she would do so eagerly.
She only retroactively under well earned opprobrium suggests that not condemning calls to genocide was wrong, but lives with a highly tuned offense detector which is so easily triggered it is not safe to conduct normal conversation or permit one’s inner mind to show on their face in her presence.
I was amazed by the token Harvard President. Affirmative action has become a joke.
Look at it this way….the world is a whole lot safer with her there than in say an Air Traffic Control Tower controlling air traffic…..or at the controls of a 747.
She could no more fly a 747 than Biden could run a triathlon.
These three coached maroons …….
just jay walked right out into their intersectionality and the logic bus just couldn’t stop in time.
Facts are stubborn things!
Confusion to the enemy!
MAGA!