Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon said there should be ‘a marathon’ of departures from the heads of elite universities.
Gurdon appeared on Fox Report Weekend Sunday to react to the news of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigning from her position after fallout from her congressional testimony. Magill was joined by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth and Harvard President Claudine Gay, who also received calls to resign.
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“The departure of Liz Magill is just one small step in what needs to be a marathon. The other two who testified so abominably in front of Congress the other day also need to go, they’re just as bad,” Gurdon said.
“But really these high profile presidents of some of the most elite universities in the country are just a tiny part of the massive corrosion of the institutions in the United States that is being put into place by DEI: diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Prior to her resignation, Magill claimed she was “focused on our university’s long-standing policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution” during her testimony and should have emphasized that calls for genocide “would” be considered bullying or harassment. According to Gurdon, these presidents “owe their jobs” to the concept of DEI.
“The truth is that to talk about [Magill’s] personal antisemitism misses the point. The university is corrupted and corroded because it is steeped in the ideology which she embodies and which she expressed,” Gurdon said.
“She was asked a straightforward question: Does — do calls for genocide and the elimination of the Jews and of Israel contravene your code of conduct at the university. And she wriggled and squirmed and didn’t answer and just talked about context.”
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“The truth is that these universities will persecute speech that they do not like such as, for example, misgendering someone, using the wrong pronouns, etc., and then they will give a pass to people who actually call for the elimination of a people,” Gurdon went on.
UPenn has yet to announce an interim president to take Magill’s place — her resignation is not immediate.
