After UPenn President, Liz Magill was shamed into a half-hearted apology for her “context-dependent decisions” to allow anti-Semitism on campus, rumor has it that she is being asked to step down.

According to this, UPenn is expected to ask Magill to step down.

Our board has been, and remains, deeply concerned about the dangerous and toxic culture of our campus that has been led by a select group of students and faculty and that has been permitted by University leadership.

As a result of the University leadership’s stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our board respectfully suggests to you and the Board of Trustees that the University requires new leadership with immediate effect.”-UPenn Wharton School of Business, Board of Directors

UPenn Jewish students are no strangers to attacks. This attack happened three days before Yom Kippur in September, ahead of the Hamas attacks on Israel:

UPenn President, Liz Magill, issued a half-hearted apology after several anti-Semitic slurs were written on buildings on campus after Hamas attacked Israel:

Last night, vile, antisemitic messages were projected onto several campus buildings, including on Penn Commons, Huntsman Hall, and Irvine Auditorium. Penn Police were notified and quickly responded, and a full investigation is currently underway. We will pursue this matter to the fullest extent and take swift action in accordance with our policies.

For generations, too many have masked antisemitism in hostile rhetoric. These reprehensible messages are an assault on our values and cause pain and fear for our Jewish community. Penn has a long and rich history of robust debate about complicated issues of the day. Projecting hateful messages on our campus is not debate, it is cowardice, and it has no place at Penn.”-Liz Magill

Her threats are as viable as Joe Biden’s threats to our enemies. It has no place at Penn unless it’s anti-Semitism exercised as a “context-dependent decision”. You know what is cowardice, Liz? A half-hearted statement calling out the cowardice with no real action or intention of doing anything about it.

Apparently, UPenn is no place for donors’ money, either. Take billionaire hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, for starters, and Ross Stevens, the boss of Stone Ridge Asset Management.

Absent a change in leadership and values at Penn in the very near future, I plan to rescind Penn’s Stone Ridge shares to prevent any further reputational and other damage to Stone Ridge as a result of our relationship with Penn and Liz Magill.

I love Penn and it is important to me, but our firm’s principles are more important.”-Ross Stevens

Stevens plans to take back a $100 million donation to UPenn. And, Ackman has been very vocal about throwing Magill and a few others off their lofty cliffs:

102 million people have viewed the below post and the video of the @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn presidents’ testimony to Congress.

How can they appear in public after such disgraceful testimony?

Has anyone seen them since Tuesday? https://t.co/B9JvawZx3d

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 8, 2023

In short, they said: It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.”-Bill Ackman

Great question. Let’s consult Harvard President, Dr. Claudine Gay for some more insight.

Harvard must model what it means to preserve free expression while combating prejudice and preserving the security of our community,” Gay said. “We are undertaking that hard, long-term work with the attention and intensity it requires.”-Claudine Gay

Sure, you are. Gay wants to “confront hate”, while “preserving free expression”, or something.

We are at our strongest when we commit to open inquiry and freedom of expression as foundational values of our academic community. At the same time, our community must understand that phrases such as ‘from the river to the sea’ bear specific historical meanings that to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel and engender both pain and existential fears within our Jewish community. I condemn this phrase and any similarly hurtful phrases.”-Claudine Gay, The Crimson

Claudine, take a look around your campus and the bunch of triggered little brats who reside there. You’re coming against a slew of “hateful” phrases. Some trigglypuff who wants to identify as a squirrel will probably see someone telling them they are not and will never be a squirrel is “hate speech”. Words are just words. And, by the by, you all created the climate these kiddies are in right now and pushed anti-Semitism for years. Good luck with that.

President Claudine,
Why didn’t you say that yesterday? Or better yet on October 7th?

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 6, 2023

Then, there’s Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT:

Those who want us to shut down protest language are, in effect, arguing for a speech code. But in practice, speech codes do not work. Problematic speech needs to be countered with other speech and with education, and we are doing that.”-Sally Kornbluth

https://twitter.com/jason/status/1732184143533080673?s=61&t=UI9Kyuln1G1WoVpGdD39LA

As Bill Ackman says, ridding UPenn of Liz Magill will be “one down” if it were to happen today, but we have quite a few more to go. As my mama told me once, you can dress it up in an Ivy League robe but trash is still just that…

… trash.

That’s my “context-dependent decision” about some people in a nutshell. Change my mind.

Featured image: M Elizabeth Magill photographed at her Inauguration/East End Quaker/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.