Michael Smerconish: What's Next For University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill

Source:Michael Smerconish talking about the University of Pennsylvania President.

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From Michael Smerconish

"The University of Pennsylvania's president on Thursday faced new backlash for her comments during a congressional hearing -- after she had already apologized for how she said she would handle remarks in the university community calling for the "genocide of Jews."

The Republican-led House Education Committee announced Thursday that it is opening an investigation into the policies and disciplinary procedures at Penn, Harvard and MIT after finding testimony from Elizabeth Magill, Penn's president, along with that of Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth -- "absolutely unacceptable."

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the committee's Republican chairwoman, said members have "deep concerns with their leadership and their failure to take steps to provide Jewish students the safe learning environment they are due under law."

Several of Pennsylvania's elected leaders have denounced Magill's comments made during Tuesday's congressional hearing, with some calling for her resignation. The university's board of trustees held a hastily scheduled meeting Thursday, but there is no board plan for imminent leadership change at Penn, according to the university spokesperson.

During the House Education Committee hearing Tuesday on how three university presidents have handled antisemitism on their campuses, Magill had a tense exchange with New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik." 

From ABC News

"The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws that: regulate an establishment of religion; prohibit the free exercise of religion; abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights." 

From Wikipedia

"Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people[a] in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly." 

From Wikipedia

The New Democrat talks about free speech a lot because we're Liberal Democrats and one of, if not the biggest liberal value, along with freedom of choice and the belief in personal autonomy, and property rights, is the belief in freedom of speech. 

So of course Americans not have a constitutional right to free speech, but that even includes hate speech. We have a right to even believe that Jews, along with every other ethnic group in America, are subhuman (as nasty as that sounds) who don't even deserve to live and breath on Planet Earth. But we don't have a constitutional right to act on those genocidal and bigoted views. We don't have a right to call in public for Jews, or any other ethnic group in this country, to be murdered simply because they're Jewish, because of their ethnicity. 

Both the University of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, are private institutions. But there's a big catch here, they both receive Federal tax dollars. And if they want to continue to receive those tax dollars, they have to show that this money is not going to support genocidal propaganda against any ethnic group in this country, including at their own institutions, or in the rest of the country. 

I don't agree with most of what the MAGA run U.S. House of Representatives has done this year, including Representative Elise Stefanik, who had her own issues dealing with genocide last year when she endorsed a Republican House candidate who praised Adolf Hitler. A man who murdered not just Jews because they were Jewish, but Poles, because they're Polish, back in the 1930s and 40s, (Elise Stefanik is Polish-American) but they were damn right in bringing these college president's to U.S. Capitol this week, to testify about the genocidal rhetoric against their Jewish students. And those presidents for college president's, look pretty braindead and tone death. 

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