Liz Magill or Liz Magoebbels as I now call her needs to be fired from Penn University. I am singling out Liz. Of course, the hearing on on-campus antisemitism that took place last week shocked anyone with a functioning brain, and featured presidents from MIT, Harvard and Penn. But Magill has shown the biggest resistance to accountability, and by far and away gave a performance at the hearing that wasn’t just obscenely alarming but also not up to the intellectual standard that it should have been. In other words, Magill exposed herself as too stupid for her job. She isn’t qualified to be president of Penn University. She isn’t qualified to run a local library. She’d have a hard time finding what you were looking for without additional “context”.
I initially wrote about the hearing here. And by the way I believe President Gay of Harvard and President Kornbluth of MIT should also resign.
Here’s Magill’s performance again, this time singled out, in case you missed it.
I find myself re-watching her the most, out of all three presidents (who were clearly all DEI hires). The smirk. The self-satisfaction. The power trip. The “look mom, I’m on TV”. The blind stupidity. The absolute dissonance. The emotional gaslighting. The sheer disrespect for the severity of the question, the setting it’s being asked in and her place representing the 24,000 students who are enrolled at Penn University.
There’s no coming back from “Holocaust? Lol depends on the context” for an academic with power and influence. Nope. Magill has got to go. We need to set the standard. This ain’t it.
Stanford and Yale have both published statements declaring the total non-acceptance of the answers at the hearing. Here is Stanford’s:
In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples. That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university.
And Yale:
Magill’s contrived apology video message is not enough. We don’t need notes to tell you what calls for Jewish genocide are, but she does. Because Magill knows nothing.
Magill is not a serious academic. Magill is not qualified. Magill is not even aware of her own university’s policies. Here she says the policies need to be changed. They don’t. The president needs to be changed. As in, her. She needs to be changed. Switched out for a president who knows their university’s policies and can adequately communicate them at a congressional hearing. This type of wilfull ignorance denotes a bully, an imposter, a fraud. How Magill got this far is a serious question that Penn should be exploring the second Penn fires Magill.
I have been told from sources that Magill thinks this kerfuffle will just “blow over”. There is meeting set tomorrow, Sunday, at Penn to discuss her on a university-wide board; a board of trustees that have thus far not asked Magill to step down. Reportedly there is a lot of support for Magill on-campus, and not enough pressure for her resignation. We must apply pressure. The woman is a threat to Jewish students on the Penn campus and she is a threat to human intelligence on every campus. She is a threat, period.
Even the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, called Magill’s responses “shameful” and said: “Leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity, and Liz Magill failed to meet that simple test.”
If you flunk the “Is the Holocaust bad" part of your paper during finals then you should not get your degree. Magill needs to be out. We need to push her out. “Never again” is a promise, and it’s an action. It means Magill must be fired.
Happy third day/night of Chanukah. Fire the bitch.
Agreed, of course, she should be fired. All three should. But here's the scary part: now that the antisemitism (or tolerance for it --same thing) has been exposed, if they are not fired, as they may well not be, they and their ilk will feel they can operate with even more impunity going forward. As in: " We can overlook threats to Jewish safety and any reaction will blow over."
No ‘context’ needed when it comes to cancelling speakers who tell basic biological and moral truths. But genocide? Well, of course a context is needed: are the victims Jews or not?
Vomit-inducing!