Blurry Discipline

There is no place in this nation for antisemitism or any other variety of hatred. There is no place in this nation, including on college campuses, for calls of genocide against any people. Genocide is the elimination, and even the attempt, of a race or any group of people. It’s murder. So surely calls for genocide on a college campus should be disciplined. The stock lawyerly answers by the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania about their schools policies against expressed hatred did not suffice.

Last week during a hearing in the House, Republican idiot Elise Stefanik asked the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, if calls for genocide against Jews were a violation of the school’s code of conduct. Magill gave a very lawyerly answer about context. When given another chance to answer whether students making these calls should be disciplined, Magill gave another lawyerly response about context. The other two presidents, Sally Kornbluth from MIT and Claudine Gay from Harvard, gave similar answers about “context” and “it depends.” For a deeper dive into this, read this excellent column by David French at The New York Times (if you have a subscription, and you should).

Technically, the presidents were correct but wrong with their stock unemotional answers. And while Stefanik was correct that there should be a violation of the schools’ policies, she’s the wrong person to be outraged by this. She is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about hate and bigotry.

Yesterday, Liz Magill resigned from Penn and this morning, Stefanik is celebrating and taking a victory lap.

Stefanik tweeted, “One down. Two to go. This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most “prestigious” higher education institutions in America. This forced resignation of the president of @Penn is the bare minimum of what is required. These universities can anticipate a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation of all facets of their institutions negligent perpetration of antisemitism including administrative, faculty, funding, and overall leadership and governance. @Harvard and @MIT do the right thing. The world is watching.”

When are you going to do the right thing, Rep. Stefanik, and address the pervasive rot of antisemitism in your institution?

I don’t want to be lectured about antisemitism by a person who has not called for the resignation of Ms. Jewish Space Lasers who also compared vaccinations and face mask policies to the Holocaust. When are you going to call for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation, you hypocrite? In case you’re not aware of this, MTG is an antisemitic racist who supports QAnon conspiracy theories and has stalked survivors of school shootings. She also expressed support for the assassination of Nancy Pelosi, which Stefanik has tacitly approved as well.

I don’t want to be lectured about antisemitism by the person who ignored Trump’s defense of tiki-torch Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us.”

I don’t want to be lectured about antisemitism by the person who ignored Trump’s howls about globalists.

I don’t want to be lectured about antisemitism by the person who ignored Trump’s conspiracy theories about George Soros.

I don’t want to be lectured about antisemitism by the person who ignored Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lunch bunch that included antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, who has since floated conspiracy theories that October 7th didn’t happen.

Donald Trump is an antisemite and a racist. This is not debatable.

When are you going to call for Trump to withdraw from the presidential race, Rep. Stefanik? Instead of reprimanding Trump, Stefanik has carried his water.

Republican goons don’t actually care about antisemitism, just who’s doing it.

I officially call for the resignation of Representative Elise Stefanik for her hypocrisy and tacit approval of antisemitism within her own party. I demand her resignation over her calls for discipline on college campuses while standing next to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson when he stated he would blur the faces of January 6 terrorists.

Elise Stefanik and the entire Republican Party are bigots. I don’t want to be lectured about antisemitism by antisemites.

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