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On 12/9/2023 2:44 PM, Biased Journalism wrote:
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The University of Pennsylvania's president has
resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated
questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate
the school's conduct policy.
The departure of Liz Magill, in her second year as president of the Ivy League school, was announced by the school late Saturday afternoon. The statement said Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university's Carey Law School. She has agreed to keep serving as Penn's leader until the university names an interim president.
Calls for her resignation exploded after Tuesday's testimony in a U.S.
House committee on antisemitism on college campuses, where she appeared
with the presidents of Harvard University and MIT.
Universities across the U.S. have been accused of failing to protect
Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout
from Israel's intensifying war in Gaza, which faces heightened criticism
for the mounting Palestinian death toll.
She was right that the context ought to matter, and we should lean
towards not silencing the speech. However, she opened herself up to
being fired because 1) she has suppressed hostile speech directed at
other groups, and 2) she couldn't explain why the context mattered.
Almost certainly had she explained herself, it still wouldn't have
sufficed. In particular Stefanik was engaging in demagogic virtue
signalling.
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