Liz Magill resigns
By Well I guess a lot of LGM commenters are going to be happy that Liz Magill was forced to resign for giving a truthful and indisputably legally correct answer to an utterly absurd bad faith question. After all, she should have known how dangerous it was to answer in such a provocative way, instead of using more demure and modest language. You know how those MAGATs are — they just can’t control themselves, so it’s best not to tempt them, unless you actually like being assaulted.
The absurd question she was asked was, is calling for the genocide of Jews always a violation of Penn’s code of conduct in regard to bullying and harassment? Apparently the logic here is that calling for genocide is always wrong, so it follows that it’s also always a form of bullying and harassment. This makes exactly as much sense as asserting that academic fraud is always wrong, so it’s therefore always a violation of Penn’s code of conduct regarding bullying and harassment.
Magill — a lawyer and law professor — refused to perjure herself by uttering a preposterous lie in response to Elise Stefanik’s trolling, and she paid for this refusal with her job. But I guess she was asking for it, right?