Liz Magill Bites the Dust

[tbhausen]

There’s no room for this in higher education. I’m glad this didn’t take long. Good move by UPenn:

UPenn President Liz Magill steps down after controversial testimony on antisemitism

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned from her position, according to the chairman of the university's board of trustees.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[indykid]

Hopefully this is the start of the pendulum swinging back to education and away from indoctrination.

 

[tbhausen]

Yeah, it would be wonderful if Harvard was next:

Bill Maher declares Harvard, UPenn 'Team Hamas,’ derides ‘idiot’ students who are attacking Israel

HBO's Bill Maher blasted universities like Harvard and UPenn for their "double standard" when it comes to tolerating pro-Hamas speech while quashing others.

www.foxnews.com

 

[loudgroove]

They should be teaching kids how to think, not what to think.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I miss her already… NOT!!

 

[Expat]

They should have fired her instead of letting her resign.

 

[tbhausen]

Keep the pressure on!

Stefanik applauds resignation of UPenn President Liz Magill: 'One down. Two to go'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/st...on-upenn-president-liz-magill-one-down-two-go

 

[Flash-hider]

They should be teaching kids how to think, not what to think.

I would say they are teaching them how to think. Call it group think, herd think, or whatever think there is. Socialism, communism, marxism, maoism, antisemitism, this is how they have been programmed to think. Maybe what they are missing is how to reason.

 

[JCSR]

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Do the same for all your commie, DEI, lovin’ staff too.

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

I like her...

 

[funeralweb]

She remains a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law, where people will pay handsome tuition $$$$ to "learn" from her.

 

[Cynical]

Wow, she looks like a really angry skank.

 

[phylodog]

I like to see horrible people dethroned and I'll take it however I can get it. In my opinion antisemitism is a small part of a much bigger problem but if it's what'll remove evil from power I'm all for focusing all of the attention on it.

 

[Dr.Midnight]

Wow, she looks like a really angry skank.

You just described 99.9% of liberal women.

 

[jamil]

I would say they are teaching them how to think. Call it group think, herd think, or whatever think there is. Socialism, communism, marxism, maoism, antisemitism, this is how they have been programmed to think. Maybe what they are missing is how to reason.

No. In their own literature they say the goal is to teach them what to think, to make activists. That's the goal of all the "critical" theories. To destroy "normal". To make left wing activists, and to bring about the revolution that will flip the power structures and create new institutions of their own making.

 

[tomcat13]

Small Tip of a Very, Very Large Iceberg!

 

[Leadeye]

What I've never understood about these people is that they should be smart enough to see that their philosophy always ends in the horrors of 1984. Bigger, smaller, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but always the same place, enforcement by leadership at the point of a gun. Sadly what they don't learn from history is that when they get to than point they have abdicated control to the man with the gun and their future is now totally dependent on him.

Having been force fed this stuff by phds at IU during the 70s, I pictured them years later crying in their collective beers at Nick's when the wall came down and their socialist mother ship cratered. What they must have thought when the core of their lives was just a fraud.

 

[phylodog]

What I've never understood about these people is that they should be smart enough to see that their philosophy always ends in the horrors of 1984. Bigger, smaller, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but always the same place, enforcement by leadership at the point of a gun. Sadly what they don't learn from history is that when they get to than point they have abdicated control to the man with the gun and their future is now totally dependent on him.

Having been force fed this stuff by phds at IU during the 70s, I pictured them years later crying in their collective beers at Nick's when the wall came down and their socialist mother ship cratered. What they must have thought when the core of their lives was just a fraud.

Humility isn't their strong suit. They believe they're smarter than all who have come before them and most with whom they're forced to rub shoulders.

At the root of it all, in a socialist structure the intellectuals hold a significantly higher social & financial status than they do in a capitalist society. It drives them insane that some uneducated deplorables can achieve tremendous success simply through hard work and/or natural talent, regularly surpassing their own. A socialist system eliminates that constant reminder that they aren't what they believe themselves to be.

 

[loudgroove]

Humility isn't their strong suit. They believe they're smarter than all who have come before them and most with whom they're forced to run shoulders.

At the root of it all, in a socialist structure the intellectuals hold a significantly higher social & financial status than they do in a capitalist society. It drives them insane that some uneducated deplorables can achieve tremendous success simply through hard work and/or natural talent, regularly surpassing their own. A socialist system eliminates that constant reminder that they aren't what they believe themselves to be.

You have a really good point that I have never thought of. I always figured that they were simply too emotional and since you can't rationalize feelings. Their foundation is started there and worked up to stupid and unreasonable desires we are seeing today.