By now, you have likely heard about the Congressional hearings on antisemitism.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who is often treated as a dunce because she is a female Republican, absolutely slaughtered the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the hearing. While the Harvard grad (yes, this purported dunce is a Harvard graduate and currently enrolled at the Kennedy School getting a Masters in Defense and Strategic Studies) pressed these college presidents to clarify their policies on bullying and harassment of Jews, they smirked and squirmed their way into a rhetorical kill box.
Stefanik: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s rules or code of conduct?”
Magill: “It is a context dependent decision.”
Stefanik: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?”
Gay: “It can be depending on the… pic.twitter.com/DshHkDrkdt
— Terri Green (@TerriGreenUSA) December 7, 2023
The entire hearing presented a bad look for the presidents of these universities for several reasons. The first and most obvious one is that these presidents have embraced some of the most restrictive speech policies…
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