Top university presidents grilled in House hearing on campus hate speech

The presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania faced tough questions about a surge in expressions of hatred on U.S. college campuses from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Tuesday. Several GOP members accused the university leaders of slow, ineffective or inadequate response to threats and hostility witnessed following the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) called for the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay.

[whaaat]

These are the same campuses that wouldn't even allow conservatives to have presentations/discussions on their campuses. Where are the discrimination lawsuits?

[madisonbadger]

Yikes. UPenn and Harvard should never receive any more funds from citizens nor the government

[RajAdams]

Thank you for exposing the hate in our Universities! Take away our 3.2 billions grand from Haward University !

[onewaveview]

Harvard is closed all comments in their YouTube - it’s more than a word. SHAME ON THESE COLLEGE

[riccochet]

These universities should never receive another dime of taxpayer money.

[richardlew]

OMG. These college presidents actually think that they're politicians.

[MrBenjaminCole]

We have strange creepy people running Ivy League colleges.

[anthonydavid]

The Ds and woke have FINALLY shown the world exactly who they are although I new this about 4 or 5 years ago.

[redsea]

Finally, we have many women emerging as renowned school leaders. And this is three women's leadership??? They sound like this world has no right and wrong, it all depends on how you play the words. Shame on them.

[justinreilly]

Horrible how the president of Harvard refuses to answer Congress’ questions!

[ajitkothari]

Both the ladies are cunningly avoiding answer the question. Are n’t they guilty of whitewashing the subject.

[salahidin]

I taught in an Ivy league for quite some time before going back to Europe, and I am not surprised by these answers. Most faculty I met there, especially in the humanities, are completely ideologized. I'm myself a liberal, but I observed that most of my colleagues were not. Their vision of the world is tribal and intransigent. They do not tolerate any disagreement on political matters, and do not support free speech at all. Claiming that hate speech such as calls for genocide is "context dependent" is outrageous, especially considering that the slightest deviation on questions of gender, race, and sexuality can put an abrupt end to your career or studies--as happened so many times in the past. Many of my colleagues would teach books that praised the use of indiscriminate violence against civilians in the name of "national liberation" and "anti-colonialism." No surprise then, that many students develop such hateful views on the massacres committed against civilans in Israel. US academia has lost its moral compass. Ideology smashed it into pieces.

[traderboi]

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

[kat-mhre]

I went to Cornell in 1982 and it was woke back then. I even complained and felt uneasy. Glad to have gotten out of there with my values in tact. Left for California and found more crazies.

[tictoc]

Thank God there are some US politicians speaking up for sanity

[malakaikoroicakau]

What a Dr. who cannot answer a simple question😂😂😂😂

[kat-mhre]

My mother is Jewish. The stories of our family who died in Poland are horrifying and now we have a black woman trying to hustle her way out of this.

[anandtiwari]

She is trying to not answer very simple and direct questions of Yes / No type.

[MrOlegful]

The year is 1939 or 2023 ? Unbelievable how short the memory is

[Lomojo]

Code of conduct at Harvard summed up: .."don't lose our funding"