Posted on 05/02/2023 2:46:58 PM PDT by lowbridge
The president of Thomas Jefferson University, Mark Tykocinski, was publicly rebuked after he "liked" tweets that called transgender surgery for minors "child mutilation" and also cast doubt on the COVID-19 vaccines, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"At his level, he is held to a higher standard and should have known better," Thomas Jefferson University CEO Joseph G. Cacchione reportedly wrote in a message Sunday to Jefferson faculty, employees and students.
Tykocinski is a Yale-trained molecular immunologist who has worked at Jefferson University for 16 years. Cacchione is a physician and health care executive.
The Inquirer also indicated that Cacchione’s email reprimand of Tykocinski came just one day after the outlet published a story on the university president’s "like" history from his Twitter account.
Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson featured heavily in The Inquirer’s story, with the outlet reporting that Tykocinski liked Berenson’s posts "nearly 30" times. Berenson has spoken out publicly against COVID vaccine mandates and other pandemic-era government restrictions and policies.
Berenson himself also highlighted the incident to his over 485,000 followers on Twitter.
"Dr. Mark Tykocinski is a 70-year-old immunologist with an spotless academic record. His crime appears to be liking my tweets," Berenson wrote.
"Academic freedom is dead," he added.
The Inquirer also claimed that it found one tweet in Tykocinski’s "like" history that was against transgender surgeries for children.
Tykocinski later apologized to the school community for his "like" history, also explaining to The Inquirer that he "liked" tweets to bookmark them and "to learn more about the subject matter or the particular viewpoint."
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"I regret my lack of understanding of how ‘liking’ a tweet is an implied endorsement," Tykocinski told The Inquirer. "I also regret how my lack of understanding of the Twitter platform caused some to question my views on
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So their "higher standard" = supporting child mutilation / child abuse.
Sick and twisted.
He apologized?
He told the truth. What "higher standard" is there than that?
Higher standard like this university CEO? He sounds like he has standards out the wazoo.
Yep. One by one, they are making examples of everyone beholden to others for their careers and group associations.
Especially, for speaking the truth.
You can never appease them.
They will, just, see you as weak and attack that much harder.
“At his level, he is held to a higher standard and should have known better,” Thomas Jefferson University CEO Joseph G. Cacchione reportedly wrote
I’m sure he knew what he was supposed to say and like publicly.
He just didn’t want to cave in to some blue haired 19 year old getting a degree in gender studies that feels empowered because they can correct you about what pronoun to use.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutilation
1: an act or instance of destroying, removing, or severely damaging a limb or other body part of a person or animal
2: an act or instance of damaging or altering something radically
How is it not “mutilation?”
This is the antithesis of what leadership, morality, free speech and critical thinking are about. What a weak excuse of a man, or is he a man? Can’t assume that he still has balls.
NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR SINCERELY HELD CONVICTIONS!!!!!!!!!
It’s just blood in the water to the woke sharks.
My apologies to sharks, as they are far nicer than the woke mob.
Should have known better so that he should acquiesce to immoral foolishness???
Lefties have scrambled eggs for brains.
What does the guy think this is, a free country? Not for types like him. Progressives are in charge.
I think that some of this gender affirming care is intended to make the middle-eastern custom of female genital mutilation less objectionable. If we are against genital surgery for transitioning children we will be against middle eastern families performing clitorectomies on their daughters. Unequivocally you can say that this happens in America and we don’t hear about it. But if we find out that it happens we have to do something about it. Liberals don’t want to be in the position of opposing an immigrant group. They can now say that those procedures are covered by the right to gender affirming care. They don’t have to do anything about it and even better they don’t have to think about it.
that’s exactly what it is! Child Genital Mutilation!
Rule #`1. Never apologize!
You don’t apologize you get cancelled. Apologize and you still get cancelled. They have people competely cowed into submission. The internet is what has done this. Avoid the internet.
I don’t understand why any politician, teacher, or anyone with a job would comment on anything in social media, especially if you lean conservative. It’s just not a smart move. There was life before social media. Twitter is just a hotbed for trouble.
This report by Mass Resistance exposes the Frankenstein surgeries performed on sexually- confused children.
It’s a PDF. I have to warn you, this made me physically ill. But it shows the Mengele-level mutilation being performed by psychopaths.
Please share this link far and wide. People need to see the truth of “gender affirming” surgeries.
And yet no criminal prosecution, even from “republican” AGs.
Because our reprobate leaders worship money. They’re using our tax dollars to export this satanic degeneracy around the world. There’s big money to be made.
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